Ageing and memory medication

Social Rationales and Consumption Practices

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2249288
AutoresN Lopes (0000-0002-5789-7766, Escola Superior de Saúde Egas Moniz, autor correspondente), Elsa Pegado (0000-0002-6177-9340, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE‐IUL) Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia (CIES‐IUL) Lisbon Portugal), Joana Zózimo (0000-0003-2438-1613, Centro de Estudos Sociais), Joana R Zózimo (Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar Egas Moniz (CiiEM) Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES‐UC) Portugal)
Ano2017
Volume39
Fascículo7
Páginas1273-1287
Data de publicação2017-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9566.12586
PMID28597495
OpenAlexW2624108038
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas26

This article focuses on the social rationales underlying the consumption or rejection of medication for memory by the elderly. Our analysis is set within the wider frame of the current use of psychopharmaceuticals for the enhancement of everyday performance, discussing its relationship to new cultures of ageing. Our results, from a recently concluded study, point to different patterns of investment in memory in old age. On the one hand, we found a willingness to consume medication for memory - a heterogeneous disposition split between the imaginary of disease and that of performance enhancement. On the other hand, we found a cultural resistance and scepticism towards the use of psychopharmaceuticals for performance purposes. This suggests that a new frame of psychopharmaceuticalization of old age - represented by memory medication - is prompting different rationales, ranging from consumption to resistance

Cognitive psychology · Consumption (sociology · Frame (networking · Resistance (ecology · Set (abstract data type · Social science · Sociology · Aging and Gerontology Research · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues · Computer Science · Psychology