critical gerontology

The potential to make common cause between groups who are otherwise divided, and amongst whom are individuals dealing alone with challenges that seem to require collective responses.

This article was originally published on Social Policy Association.  Read the original article. Social policy has neglected ageing and, as a result, it has vacated what should have been a leading role…

Older adults and carers are themselves aware of the moralized discourses around aging, dying and caring, and that well-meaning attempts by others to invoke these discourses may have inadvertently generate isolation, sadness, even resentment.

Take a deep breath and slowly exhale. Let your mind drift back to a favorite memory or a recent pleasurable experience. Hold that image still in your mind and try…

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Critical reflectivity could help practitioners by understanding how social and cultural forces impact LGBTQ older adults.

We must – as an Association – continue to attend to the priority areas in gerontological research whilst considering the heterogeneity of the aging process.

Both climate change and challenges of population aging are each global issues that have reached a truly critical phase that their respective saw coming.

IAGG highlighted the need for the provision of care, caregivers’ and families’ wellbeing, promoting social justice, equality & capitalizing on technologies.

Shifting from being “all right” to “better than all right” may help funding mechanisms rethink how they value and measure ability in dementia