Successful Ageing: Ambition and Ambivalence
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, 2022
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- Title
- Successful Ageing: Ambition and Ambivalence
- Author
- Rattan, Suresh
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0192897535
- ISBN 13
- 9780192897534
- Item weight
- 181 grams
This book argues that a narrow understanding of 'successful ageing' as good health, full functioning, and active participation in society excludes a large portion of ageing individuals from the quest for a good life in old age. The challenge is that the term 'successful ageing' comes with ambitions but also with ambivalence. On the one hand, it counteracts the deficit view of ageing and facilitates visionary thinking on what might be possible in the future. On the other hand, its implicitly ageist and derogative features have negative consequences to older people and society at large.
So, what is successful ageing? We provide answers at three levels: First, we synthesise the various models used to define successful ageing into a heuristic scheme able to unravel the normative complexity and differences inherent in existing models. Second, we anchor successful ageing models in a tripartite way at micro (individual), meso, and macro analytic levels of human development. Third, we argue that the usefulness of successful ageing in guiding policy will only profit from the concept, if it follows a pluralistic and holistic view without hastily deciding for one model only.
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About the Author
Hans-Werner Wahl is a former Professor of Psychological Aging Research. He is currently the Director of the Network Aging Research of Heidelberg University. He is the author or editor of more than 30 books and more than 400 scholarly journal articles and chapters related to behavioral aging. He is the founding editor of the European Journal of Ageing (together with Dorly Deeg) and a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America. He has received the 2008 Social Gerontology Award (together with Manfred Diehl), the 2009 M. Powell Lawton Award of the GSA, and the 2019 IAGG-ER Advanced Scholar Award.
Suresh I.S. Rattan Ph.D.,D.Sc., is Professor Emeritus of Biogerontology at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Biogerontology - an international peer reviewed journal published by Springer-Nature. His research areas and expertise include ageing of human cells and application of the concept of mild stress-induced hormesis as a modulator of ageing. He is the recipient of the Lord Cohen Medal in Gerontology from the British Society for Research on Ageing (BSRA), and an Honorary Doctorate from the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (St. Petersburg branch). He has published more than 300 scientific articles, and has edited/co-edited 15 books, including books for children, general public and research scientists. He is the present Chairman of the Biological Section of the European Region of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics
Liat Ayalon, PhD, is a researcher in the School of Social Work, at Bar Ilan University, Israel. Prof. Ayalon coordinates an international EU funded Ph.D. program on the topic of ageism (EuroAgeism). She is also the Israeli PI of the EU funded MascAge program to study ageing masculinities in literature and cinema. Prof. Ayalon has led (with Prof. Tesch-Römer) an international research network on the topic of ageism, funded through COST (Cooperation in Science and Technology; COST IS1402). Prof. Ayalon is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and the co-editor of a book on ageism. She consults both national and international organizations concerning the development and evaluation of programs and services for older adults.
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