Canadian power mobility device users' experiences of ageing with mobility impairments
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11201966 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexandra Korotchenko (University of British Columbia, corresponding author), Laura Hurd Clarke, Laura Hurd (0000-0003-1913-348X, University of British Columbia) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1238-1253 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ageing and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0144-686X • E-ISSN: 1469-1779 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0144686x15000288 |
| OpenAlex | W2393302407 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 21 |
In this article, we draw upon interviews with 14 men and 15 women aged 51–92 to examine the embodied experiences of Canadian power mobility device users. In particular, we investigate how individuals ageing with mobility impairments perceived and experienced the practical impacts and symbolic cultural connotations of utilising a power mobility device. Our findings reveal that those participants who had begun to use their power mobility devices later in life were dismayed by and apprehensive about the significance of their diminishing physical abilities in the context of the societal privileging of youthful and able bodies. At the same time, the participants who had used a power mobility device from a young age were fearful of prospective bodily declines, and discussed the significance and consequences of being unable to continue to operate their power mobility devices autonomously in the future. We consider the ways in which the participants attempted to manage, mitigate and reframe their experiences of utilising power mobility devices in discriminatory environments. We discuss our findings in relation to on-going theoretical debates pertaining to the concepts of ‘biographical disruption’ and the third and fourth ages
Cognitive reframing · Context (archaeology) · Embodied cognition · Mobilities · Power (physics) · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Disability Rights and Representation · History · Psychology · Social Psychology · Technology Use by Older Adults
Understanding Disability
Handbook of Disability Studies
Indicators of Preclinical Disability
Aging, Chronic Illness and Self-Concept
The Politics of Disablement
Disability, embodiment and ableism
Power mobility and the built environment
Presage of a paradigm shift? Beyond the social model of disability toward resistance theories of disability
Towards an Affirmation Model of Disability
The fourth age and the concept of a ‘social imaginary’
Speaking of ‘limitations’ while trying to disregard them
You learn to live with all the things that are wrong with you’
Living with Chronic Illness
Sudden illness and biographical flow in narratives of stroke recovery
Bodily changes among people living with physical impairments and chronic illnesses
Chronic illness as biographical disruption
The significance and consequences of having painful and disabled joints in older age
Chronic illness as biographical disruption or biographical disruption as chronic illness? Reflections on a core concept
Illness in the Context of Older Age
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |