Embodying Transition in Later Life
"Having a Fall" as an Uncertain Status Passage for Elderly Women in Southeast London
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2288730 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miriam Boyles (Institute of Health and Society Newcastle University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 277-292 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Anthropology Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0745-5194 • E-ISSN: 1548-1387 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/maq.12320 |
| PMID | 27380715 |
| OpenAlex | W2470955859 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 22 |
In their (2014 report, the charity AgeUK states that one-third of older people (over 3 million) fall each year. This article takes a focused look at falling by describing four women's accounts of "having a fall" in Walworth, southeast London, which sheds light on the experience of personal and corporeal change in later life. While some experiential studies of falling have made reference to a loss of embodied control and changes in identity, these aspects have not been explored in sufficient depth. Attending closely to the embodied experience of falling for older women in the context of everyday activity reveals the uncertainty surrounding what it actually signifies and the powerful effect this uncertainty has on their everyday lives and sense of self. This in-depth phenomenological account speaks to important gaps in the literature on falls, given the current research emphasis on the management of falls risk
Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Everyday life · Experiential learning · Fall of man · Falling (accident · Fear of falling · Identity (music · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention · Gender Studies · History · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Medicine · Older Adults Driving Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Gerontology
Embodiment and experience
Life and Words
Elderly women's experiences of living with fall risk in a fragile body
Gender and the negotiation between older people and their carers in the prevention of falls
Older adults, falls and technologies for independent living
Non-Representational Approaches to Body-Landscape Relations
Falls in Later Life
Articulating Blind Touch
"I Don't Know Why They Call it the Lake District They Might as Well Call it the Rock District!" The Workings of Humour and Laughter in Research with Members of Visually Impaired Walking Groups
The Intercorporeal Emergence of Landscape
Women Growing Older
Temporal Aspects of Dying as a Non-Scheduled Status Passage
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |