Precarity in late life
Rethinking Dementia as a 'Frailed' Old Age
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2249178 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amanda Grenier (0000-0003-2251-6035, Department of Health, Aging and Society and Gilbrea Centre for Studies in Aging McMaster University Canada, corresponding author), Linda Lloyd (0000-0002-9624-9614, University of Bristol), Liz Lloyd (School for Policy Studies University of Bristol UK), C Phillipson (0000-0001-6220-2722, University of Manchester) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 318-330 |
| Publication date | 2017-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9566.12476 |
| PMID | 28177146 |
| OpenAlex | W2565670428 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 62 |
| References cited | 38 |
Approaches to ageing that are organised around productivity, success, and active late life have contributed to views of dementia as an unsuccessful, failed or 'frailed' old age. Operating through dominant frameworks, socio-cultural constructs and organisational practices, the 'frailties' of the body and mind are often used to mark the boundaries of health and illness in late life, and shape responses accordingly. Our concern is that both the taken for granted and the 'imagined' can further marginalise persons who occupy the locations of dementia and disablement. This article analyses the extent to which frailty and dementia are better understood in the context of new forms of insecurity affecting the life course. Drawing on the concept of 'precarity', this article shifts debates on the 'fourth age' away from age or stage-based thinking, into a recognition of the shared vulnerability and responsibilities for care. The argument of this article is that 'precarity' represents a 'new form of ageing', notably as regards its impact on the upper extremes of the life course. The article concludes with a call for a response that is grounded in an acknowledgement of the fragility and limitations which affect human lives, this requiring grounding in inclusive forms of citizenship
Acknowledgement · Affect · Affect (linguistics · Ambivalence · Argument (complex analysis · Context (archaeology · Dementia · Developmental psychology · Disease · Life course approach · Precarity · Sociology · Vulnerability · Vulnerability (computing · Aging and Gerontology Research · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes · Medicine · Psychology · Gender Studies · Gerontology · History · Social Psychology
Active aging
Older people’s strategies for meaningful social interactions in the context of eldercare services
Using Situated Interviews to Engage Frail Older People in the Co-production of Improved Emergency Healthcare
Preventing mental disorder and promoting mental health
Urban Poverty in the Everyday Lives of Older People
Testing for Life? Regimes of Governance in Diagnosis and Screening
The dying patient
Exploring the awareness of changes in outdoor mobility and the influence of the neighbourhood environment among people living with dementia in British Columbia, Canada
Re-conceptualising the political subject
The meaning of “total pain” in the context of living and dying with dementia
A rural‐centric model for understanding women's later life precarity in an agrarian economy in Uganda
Old age” as a social location
Direct Payments for Older Adults in an Age of Austerity
Care Ethics for Supported Decision-making. A Narrative Policy Analysis Regarding Social Work in Cases of Dementia and Self-neglect
Afterword
Towards Critical Intersections of Ageing, Housing and Well-Being
Older residents’ experiences of islandness, identity and precarity
Aging, (un)certainty and HIV management in South Africa
Negotiating safety and vulnerability in everyday life
The landscape of dementia inclusivity
Precariously placed
Hell’s Grannies and Crazy Ladies—Challenging the Precarization of Older Women
Foreigners, non-nationals, immigrants ”
Policy and practise perspectives on older adult critical life‐course transitions and place in Ireland
Critical reflections on the blind sides of frailty in later life
The qualitative embedded case study method
Understanding frailty experiences in Dutch community-dwelling older people
Talking about frailty
More than “petty squabbles” – Developing a contextual understanding of conflict and aggression among older women in low-income assisted living
Health, illness and frailty in old age
Precarity in late life
I do those things to pass the time.”
You can’t put your roots down’
Tenure insecurity, precarious housing and hidden homelessness among older renters in New Zealand
Emerging age asymmetries in the research relationship
What's it worth? Value and valuation of late-life creativity
I'm going to live my life for me’
The conspicuous absence of the social, emotional and political aspects of frailty
Everyday influence – democracy when health and social care are part of everyday life
Ageing in extra-care housing
Reablement in need of theories of ageing
Precarity and the assumption of rising insecurity in later life
Talking about frailty
Transitions in Old Age
Moments of resonance
Cohousing and the role of intermediaries in later life transitions
Food bank perceptions and food insecurity of older people
Age-associations in British politics
Whose life are They Going to Save? It's Probably Not Going to be Mine!' Living With a Life-Shortening Condition During the Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic
On being outdoors
The precariousness of living with, and caring for people with, dementia
Becoming frail
Self-perception during the Transition to the Fourth Age in the Czech Republic
Living in an Age of Precarity in 21st Century Asia
Is living well with dementia a credible aspiration for spousal carers
Dementia as Zeitgeist
Doing time in old age
Taking time
Frailty as biographical disruption
Constructing classification boundaries in the memory clinic
Dualities of dementia illness narratives and their role in a narrative economy
Necropolitics of Death in Neurodegeneration
Transitions and the lifecourse
Care in everyday life
A Fresh Map of Life
Embodied selfhood in Alzheimer's disease
The health gap
Critical Perspectives on Successful Aging
A standard procedure for creating a frailty index
Aging without agency
Successful Aging
Judith Butler and Political Theory
Citizenship and the Ethics of Care
The Political Economy of Longevity
Dying in old age
The precariat
Enhancing the mind? Memory medicine, dementia, and the aging brain
The fourth age and the concept of a ‘social imaginary’
Official conceptualizations of person-centered care
I will never be the granny with rosy cheeks”
Identity in the fourth age
Ethnographic reflections on selfhood, embodiment and Alzheimer's disease
Crossing Age and Generational Boundaries
Frames of war
Disability as Vulnerability
The Precariat
Respecting the Margins of Agency
A Place and Space for a Critical Geography of Precarity
Cosmopolitan citizenship
Declining to Decline
Outline of a Theory of Human Rights
Tacit knowledge of caring and embodied selfhood
Frail bodies
| Unique citing works | 62 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,89 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 62 |