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Gemma Carney

Gemma Carney is a lecturer in social policy at Queen’s University Belfast where she is part of the ARK Ageing programme team. Her work has been published in Ageing & Society, European Journal of Ageing, Critical Social Policy, Journal of Aging Studies and Gender & Society. She is a member of the executive committee of the British Society of Gerontology and the editorial board of Ageing & Society. Her recent work uses material culture to explore the lived experience of longevity.

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Time and the Bell Curve of Human Ageing

by Gemma Carney March 2, 2018

by Gemma Carney March 2, 2018

This idea of the ‘bell curve of human ageing’ does not, however, take account of experience. If it did, there would be no downward slope.

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Gemma Carney

Gemma Carney

Time and the Bell Curve of Human Ageing