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{"title":"Can robots lie? A posthumanist approach to robotic animals and deceptive practices in dementia care","authors":"David Redmalm ,&nbsp;Clara Iversen ,&nbsp;Marcus Persson","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101272","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101272","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Robotic animals are designed to resemble real, living animals, but at the same time, dementia care guidelines and policies often emphasize the value of transparency in relation to robots—people should not be led to believe that robots have capacities that they in fact lack. However, it is not obvious how to separate truth from lies in everyday care practice. Based on participant observations and interviews with certified assistant nurses and nursing assistants in Swedish nursing homes for people with dementia, this article studies how robotic animals become “real” in care practice. The article takes a posthumanist approach to the co-constitution of aging, care, and technology—a perspective that recognizes that not only care staff and nursing home residents, but also robots and other material things, can take an active part in shaping care practice. The analysis results in four typical situations out of which robotic animals emerge as real, living animals: <em>the cuddle</em>, with its simple but dynamic embodied actions; <em>the comfort</em>, where the robot is used as a resource for distraction and emotional support; <em>the conversation</em>, by which robotic animals' agency is both established and challenged; and <em>the adoption</em>, through which narratives and props are used to establish the robot as a pet. Robots cannot lie, at least not by themselves; instead, robots' deceptive potential is enabled by a network of actors, which is why it is often difficult to draw a clear line between lying and care workers' empathic following.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101272"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890406524000677/pdfft?md5=128a1f7fc5feae27e66fc8b3bc0dc989&pid=1-s2.0-S0890406524000677-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142311657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A potential conflict between grandparenthood and the third age lifestyle in the Finnish countryside","authors":"Ilkka Pietilä ,&nbsp;Hanna Ojala","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101270","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101270","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Some recent studies on grandparenthood have pointed to a potential conflict between grandparenthood and the ideals of the third age. Retired people are increasingly expected to live up to the ideals of active aging, and many grandparents may wish to demonstrate their agency by getting engaged in various leisure activities, which may reduce their possibilities and motivation to spend time with their grandchildren. We looked at this potential conflict from the perspective of people living in the countryside, where distances to both cultural and other services, and grandchildren, may both be long. We analyzed our interviewees' discursive constructions of their grandparenthood and independent life in the third age as well as the ways in which they negotiated the moral dilemma between the two. The data consisted of 14 telephone interviews with grandparents, aged 66–85, living relatively far from population centers. All interviewees underscored the importance of grandchildren and their willingness to spend time with them, and there were few direct references to the conflict between a committed grandparenthood and a third age lifestyle. However, the interviewees did express ideas related to maintaining certain limits in their grandparenthood to secure their own private lives. A potential conflict between a committed grandparenthood and the third age lifestyle appeared in such situations when grandparents needed to make real choices about how they spend their time, which was mediated by the geographical distances between the generations. The interviewees aimed at balancing between being devoted grandparents and maintaining independence. A familist discourse emphasizing the role of the nuclear family was commonly used to justify keeping a distance between them and the middle generation and grandchildren. The interviews echoed the third age ideals mainly in terms of independence and free time rather than consumption and leisure activities, the availability of which was limited in the countryside.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101270"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890406524000653/pdfft?md5=1f8dbc8054fd54d7cc41673ea68ff5cc&pid=1-s2.0-S0890406524000653-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142311656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sex-seeking behavior and frequency of sexual activity among single and non-monogamous older gay men","authors":"Lucas R. Prieto ,&nbsp;Deirdre A. Shires ,&nbsp;Yuan Xiong","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101268","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101268","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Studies that focus on frequency of sexual activity among older gay men are scarce. The current study explores the relationship between internalized gay ageism and frequency of sexual activity with a potential mediator of sex-seeking behaviors among gay men aged 50 or older in the Midwestern U.S. Internalized gay ageism did not predict frequency of sexual activity when mediated by sex-seeking behaviors. However, more frequent sex-seeking behaviors were associated with more frequent sexual activity. Participants in open relationships (compared to single/widowed) reported more frequent sex-seeking behaviors; those in both monogamish and open relationships reported more frequent sexual activity compared to single/widowed participants. Additionally, participants with income of US$50,000 to US$75,000 and &gt; US$75,000 report less frequent sexual activity compared to participants reporting &lt;US$25,000. Cultural sensitivity around relationships and sexual behavior that may be unique to older gay men is critical.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101268"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142654616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Home-making or home harms: Perceived and experienced tensions between domestic materiality and ageing","authors":"Jennifer Owen,&nbsp;Cat Forward","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101265","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101265","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Home, as a physical place and psychological construct, is often thought of as being an important locus of ontological security across the life course. However, there is a growing awareness of a darker side to the home (see Gurney, 2021), and home-unmaking practices (see Baxter and Brickell, 2014) that challenge the assumptions of home being purely a place of shelter, comfort, and control and instead foreground the temporal, material, and spatial fluidity of the home, and tensions between privacy and the ability to engage in health-harming behaviours largely unnoticed. Here, a material gerontological approach enables a rethinking of how home, and the household objects contained within, can both promote and undermine well-being as we age.</p><p>Drawing from two qualitative studies, this paper focuses on the tensions created by the materiality of a home which can both support daily life (see Coleman et al., 2016) and the project of the self (Belk, 1988) and be at the heart of harmful behaviours and more risky living environments. The first study explores the experiences of older women living alone during the Covid-19 pandemic. It explores how, over time, the ontological security of home can be challenged as a result of events such as bereavement, changes to physical capabilities and external influences such as the Covid-19 pandemic. The meaning and materiality of home become reframed, through the lens of gender and age, during the lockdowns associated with the pandemic. The second study, examining a voluntary service supporting older people to declutter, shows how the reduction of possessions can help clear space for adaptations to the home, reduce chances of slips and falls, and create opportunities for therapeutic engagements with the past through reminiscence, but can also threaten the ‘affective scaffolding’ of the home.</p><p>These two studies illustrate the ways that materiality is enrolled in perceived and experienced tensions between the ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ ways to age at home. The paper argues for greater acknowledgement of the grey area between idealised imaginings of the materiality of home and actual everyday experiences of ‘living with things’ (Gregson, 2007) in later life.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101265"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142233044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An intersectional life course approach to explore the narratives of ageing migrant women","authors":"Merve Tunçer","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101267","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101267","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article aims to demonstrate a concrete example of how to apply an intersectional life course perspective into the study of ageing migrant women. The empirical material is based on a qualitative in-depth interview study conducted with 20 Turkish-born women who have migrated to Sweden in their early to mid-adulthood years. Despite increasing urgings from gerontologists to include intersectionality in studies on migrants, research often neglects how age, gender, and migration status interact, failing to recognise the diverse experiences of racialised older migrants. The analysis shows that the intersection of age, gender and migrancy generates racialised and gendered experiences of later life which renders the women in different positions of power. The analysis also reveals the importance of agential capacity through the mobilisation of resources, negotiation, and resistance. By cross-fertilising two perspectives, the study suggests that intersectional life course could shed light on the experiences of ageing migrant women, thus, sensitising gerontological research to diversity and heterogeneity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101267"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890406524000628/pdfft?md5=b976a5fd136ecbeaf29b9c519a9201fe&pid=1-s2.0-S0890406524000628-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142233043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social relations among older gay men and trans women in Chile: Diverse, intimate, functional and reciprocal networks","authors":"Lorena P. Gallardo-Peralta ,&nbsp;Emilie Raymond ,&nbsp;Herminia Gonzálvez Torralbo ,&nbsp;Victoria Carrasco-Pavez","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101269","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101269","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although <strong>LGTBIQ+</strong> groups have experienced social transformations towards greater levels of respect and public presence in Chile in recent decades, the life trajectories of older people remain marginal in studies and surveys regarding sexual and gender diversity. In a society where homophobia is a current and oppressive attitude despite important advances, it is essential to examine the experiences of older LGBTIQ+ people, especially because they are vulnerable to dual discrimination in old age owing to a combination of homophobia and ageism. This study involved an analysis of social ties based on the Convoy Model, to understand how different life courses have influenced the structuring of social networks in old age among gay men and trans women in Chile. Framed within the context of broader research into four axes of diversity in ageing, this study reports the results of thirteen biographies of older people (ten gay men and three trans women). In-depth interviews were conducted using a biographical approach in which the social links that accompany the life course are deepened. A thematic analysis strategy was applied and the interview data were processed through NVivo. The findings show three concentric circles surrounding the participants: closest (made up of partner, immediate family and chosen family), closer (made up biological and extended family) and close (made up of peers and neighbours). The older people are integrated into social networks with diverse compositions, share closeness and intimacy, receive emotional, informational and instrumental social support, and are active providers of reciprocal support. However, the study notes certain risk factors, such as the difficulty of cohabiting and maintaining relationships with a partner. Participants living alone reported fearing an absence of instrumental support during more advanced stages of the ageing process.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101269"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142173691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Aging enacted in practice: How unloved objects thrive in the shadows of care","authors":"Björn Fischer ,&nbsp;Britt Östlund ,&nbsp;Alexander Peine","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101266","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101266","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, we explore the seeming stability of aging. More precisely, we offer an empirical account of how aging – images of aging, embodiments of aging, feelings about aging – is enacted in company practice, both in place and across time. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted at SMCare, a small-to-medium sized company active in the care technology sector, we show how aging achieves its stability not through practices that are characterized by affection, or purposefully targeted at maintaining or caring for aging, but due to ongoing re-enactments in the shadows of other care practices. In so doing, we mobilize STS care literature that foregrounds the often-invisible relationships among objects that are otherwise neglected, marginalized and excluded. In particular, we interrogate the interlinkages between aging and caring practices as emerging <em>in the shadows of care</em>. In these blind spots, we find, certain unloved and disliked objects such as aging may aggregate and grow, becoming stable and durable as they are incidentally brought into existence, drawing energy from, and feeding off, <em>other</em> care practices.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101266"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890406524000616/pdfft?md5=f54c3211d7a77babc66b5b831eff9e20&pid=1-s2.0-S0890406524000616-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142163397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The life course effects of socioeconomic status on later life loneliness: The role of gender and ethnicity","authors":"Ágnes Szabó ,&nbsp;Christine Stephens ,&nbsp;Mary Breheny","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101263","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101263","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Precursors of loneliness include individual risk factors and experiences of social exclusion. Using the New Zealand Health Work and Retirement Life Course History Study, we investigated the impact of unequal access to material resources across the life course (from age 10 to present) on late life emotional and social loneliness and the moderating effects of gender and Māori ethnicity (indigenous population of Aotearoa/New Zealand) in 613 adults aged 65 to 81 years. Childhood and adult life socioeconomic status (SES) negatively predicted late life emotional and social loneliness, but their effects disappeared after controlling for late life SES, suggesting a mediation effect. Education was also a significant predictor; however, it exerted different effects on social (positive) and emotional (negative) loneliness. Education's effect was moderated by gender, indicating a protective effect for emotional and an exacerbating effect for social loneliness in men. These findings suggest that lifelong exclusion from material resources is a risk factor for late life loneliness.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101263"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890406524000586/pdfft?md5=f8c46eb7b4d04b58197863914d8063f4&pid=1-s2.0-S0890406524000586-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142150005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"To begin the world anew: Epistolary lessons on aging into old age by 4th earl of Chesterfield","authors":"Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101253","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101253","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Philip Dormer Stanhope (1694–1773), 4th Earl of Chesterfield, is both a witness of and an agent in the most important transformations in eighteenth-century England. While his <em>Letters to His Son</em> and <em>Letters to His Godson</em> have been examined in the context of his advice on polite behavior, ‘the art of pleasing’ and masculinity, Chesterfield's correspondence has not been fully explored in terms of its conceptualization of late life. Since the proper performance of aging and observance of its decorum are part and parcel of polite conduct, the management of this psychosomatic phenomenon is a valuable part of lessons on deportment. This essay offers to address the question of aging into old age in the Earl's correspondence, seeing it as Chesterfield's purposeful but also unconscious pedagogic life project directed at his correspondents, making his collection of letters a type of eighteenth-century attempt at geragogy. His is an honest account of what aging into old age and with illness entails which makes his letters both a warning and a blueprint for others to learn from.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101253"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142150004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The crone and the hydra: Figuring temporal relations to aging code","authors":"Marisa Leavitt Cohn","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101254","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101254","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Managing older software code, often referred to as <em>legacy code</em>, entails a great deal of complexity, as the longer a software system has been around, the more likely it has been subjected to revisions and has grown in its interdependencies to other components written at different times by different people. This can lead to software being seen as aging and in decline as it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain. At the same time, writing new lines of code or updating to new platforms, languages, and software tools, can also be positioned as a means to rejuvenate organizational work, acting as a salve to overcome hardware limitations, or other forms of stagnation. Software is thus discursively figured as immaterial and atemporal, on the one hand, and as excessively material and corporeal, on the other. This duality of software means that the figuring of software's decline is highly subjective and rife with normative tropes that distinguish between forms of software change that that are desirable and those that are unwanted, what is worthy of maintenance or should be abandoned, what systems are considered aging versus evolving and enduring. This article considers how, in practice, software developers and engineers understand the aging of software. How and when is software coded as aged and old, what is at stake in these delineations, and what do these stakes surface about temporal regimes of software work? Through close readings of software engineering discourse and ethnographic vignettes, I examine how software's aging is figured through age coded tropes, and how these in turn contribute to the <em>chrononormativities</em> of software maintenance. I show how tropes of aging software are associated with the abject, excess, and grotesque, and with existing gendered hierarchies in software work that privilege atemporal and ahistorical relationships to code.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101254"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890406524000495/pdfft?md5=ab7098940e26b57f8158cc10b878f27c&pid=1-s2.0-S0890406524000495-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142136082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}