Falls in Later Life
Status Passage and Preferred Identities as a New Orientation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5144444 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Kingston (0000-0002-5972-3786, Keele University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 216-233 |
| Publication date | 2000-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-4593 • E-ISSN: 1461-7196 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/136345930000400205 |
| OpenAlex | W2052027329 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 16 |
This article argues that medical hegemony has constructed a dominant discourse around falls in later life. This medical dominance has subjected the fall to randomized control trials (RCTs) in an attempt to evaluate post-fall interventions especially in older populations. However, there has been a paucity of literature from any discipline other than medicine. This article attempts to rectify this imbalance by utilizing status passage and preferred identities as sociological theories that can offer insights into falls. First, it is suggested that status passage offers a useful theoretical starting point to develop critical insights into 'what it means to fall in later life'. Second, analogies are drawn from the work of Charmaz in attempting to understand the role of preferred identities after a fall. Finally, it is suggested that the fall is a powerful metaphor that perpetuates the homogeneous view of decremental decline in older age which serves to reinforce ageism within health and welfare agencies
Criminology · Epistemology · Fall of man · Hegemony · Homogeneous · Metaphor · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Sociology · Welfare · Gender Studies · Health disparities and outcomes · Law · Medicine · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychology · Social Psychology · Gerontology
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There's no apprenticeship for Alzheimer's
Use of personal call alarms among community-dwelling older people
Risk, significance and biomedicalisation of a new population
Patient education as a status passage in life - An ethnographic study exploring participation in a Danish group based patient education programme
Self-perception during the Transition to the Fourth Age in the Czech Republic
Talk, Research Technology, and the Achievement of Human Subject 'Status Passage
Embodying Transition in Later Life
Complete tooth loss as status passage
Unending work and care
Metaphors We Live By
Illness as Metaphor; Aids and its Metaphors
Material Discourses of Health and Illness
Critical Perspectives on Aging
The Body and Social Theory
Fear of Falling among the Community-Dwelling Elderly
Awareness Contexts and Social Interaction
Finding meaning after the fall
Survival of the Unfittest
Regulating Bodies
Conditions of Successful Degradation Ceremonies
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2018 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |