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{"title":"Negotiating care and control: Pet euthanasia as phronetic action","authors":"Nora Schuurman","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101256","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101256","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The lives and deaths of animals living with humans have become increasingly medicalised, and the life of a pet usually ends with euthanasia conducted by a veterinarian. In this paper, I explore how pet euthanasia is understood as a good death in interactions between vets and pet guardians in veterinary practice, provided as an act of care for old and seriously ill or injured animals. Drawing from interviews with vets in Finland, I discuss the ways in which care and control are negotiated in the decisions and practices concerning pet euthanasia, and their implications on understandings of old age and death in animals. I approach the task of euthanising an animal without a prospect of continuing life in Aristotelian terms as phronesis, as knowledge about the right and appropriate ways to act in a certain situation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101256"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890406524000513/pdfft?md5=4f4ea0615f96d11176edcb99a1016376&pid=1-s2.0-S0890406524000513-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142097692","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 qualitative exploration of the lives lived by Irish centenarians","authors":"Alison Fagan ,&nbsp;Lorraine Gaffney ,&nbsp;Patricia Heavey ,&nbsp;Mary McDonnell Naughton","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101252","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101252","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Centenarians are of particular importance to aging research as they represent the living architype of exceptional longevity and as such studying their attributes is expected to contribute to one's understanding of survivorship. While much centenarian research to date recognizes the biological and genetic determinants in achieving advanced age, there is a lack of understanding regarding the influence of social factors and their role in aging. As centenarian populations continue to grow at an unprecedented rate, the heterogeneity among centenarian cohorts together with current aging trends highlights the intrinsic need to better understand centenarian aging from a biopsychosocial perspective. A key challenge for research concerning centenarians is understanding their personal experiences of reaching this momentous age as such information could help to identify the sociodemographic and psychosocial factors that enable people to live such extraordinarily long lives. To address this, this study focused on the lived experience of Irish centenarians and explored their understanding of their aging in a rapidly modernized sociocultural Ireland. Documenting the psychosocial profiles of centenarians will assist key stakeholders including researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in the development of policies and strategies to support the growing population of older adults in Ireland. Furthermore, this research will also map Irish centenarians who have not previously been explored onto the international nexus of centenarian research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101252"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890406524000471/pdfft?md5=77f9437900ad75453683fd847aaceaef&pid=1-s2.0-S0890406524000471-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142086793","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":"On the limits of communication: The liminal positioning of older adults and processes of self-ageism and ageism.","authors":"B. Schuurman ,&nbsp;W.P. Achterberg ,&nbsp;T.A. Abma ,&nbsp;J. Lindenberg","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101255","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101255","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Our qualitative study, consisting of in-depth semi-structured interviews with recent retirees in the Dutch city of Leiden, set out to investigate how communication, through processes of self-identification and the negotiation of social identities, relates to (self-)ageism. A letter from the city administration was used to make age identification salient in our research and prompted stories of various liminal spaces and phases that our participants experienced. Whilst liminal phases are usually considered uncertain and ambiguous, in our study we found that for older people liminality can offer a desired ambiguity that allowed them to adopt a more positive identity than ‘being old’, which was rejected as undesirable. Our findings provide insight into the intertwinement of societal, institutional and individual levels of ageism and highlights the necessity of finding and emphasising positive values in being old, since only then positive interpretations of communication can enable processes of positive societal identification.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101255"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890406524000501/pdfft?md5=751d10b7d8d7f4a3311a26fcef5a6bbb&pid=1-s2.0-S0890406524000501-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142087489","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":"Towards care-full co-design with older adults: A feminist posthuman praxis","authors":"Helen Manchester ,&nbsp;Alice Willatt","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101250","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101250","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Gerontechnology design is often rooted in deficit imaginaries of frail ageing bodies, with little consideration given to the sociomateriality of older adults' everyday lives, as shaped by complex social, political, historical and cultural forces. While co-design approaches have gone some way in supporting the participation of older adults, little attention has been given to how design processes can be responsive to the more-than-human lived materialities of older adults' everyday lives. More generally, there is also a need for deeper ethical engagement with the more-than-human assemblages that shape the politics and practices of co-design. In response, this article sketches out a feminist posthuman praxis of care-full co-design, grounding it in our work co-designing digital cultural experiences with older adults who live along multiple axes of inequality. Drawing on the radically deconstructive and reconstructive commitments of posthuman feminism, the discussion tentatively presents three interconnected threads of care-full co-design. These threads explore our attempts to design in the ‘thick present’, ground design in older adults' more-than-human everyday lives, and negotiate care-full (re)arrangements in the collective doing of design. The threads call for response-ability to expansive timescales and structural injustices, and to the situated knowledges and multi-sensual lifeworlds of older adults. Design is understood as an emergent process of attentive experimentation and adjustment in a bid to find a suitable arrangement of bodies, knowledges, technologies, emotions, languages, design sites and objects. We focus on particular practice-ings, tensions and challenges that emerged as we negotiated our care-full praxis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101250"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890406524000458/pdfft?md5=d07f0aaf76e8a8ce73f41753364094e4&pid=1-s2.0-S0890406524000458-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141964322","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":"Advice for dementia carers: A critique of the literature","authors":"Emily K. Abel","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101251","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101251","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although hundreds of advice manuals for dementia carers have been published, most have serious limitations. They emphasize the various problems family members experience without noting the social and political context within which caring unfolds. As a result, they eschew structural reforms in favor of individual solutions, including self-care. The manuals also encourage carers to detach emotionally from people with dementia by viewing them in terms of their disease. In addition, the books hew so closely to the medical model of dementia that they ignore newer perspectives. Narratives by people with dementia provide a critical corrective. Those works argue that the disproportionate attention directed toward carers has eclipsed the perspective of people with dementia, that people remain individuals despite a dementia diagnosis, that issues of stigma and discrimination shape the experience of living with dementia, that more emphasis should be placed on promoting the autonomy of people with dementia, that they are entitled to reasonable accommodations, and that they should have more opportunities for growth.</p><p>I have reviewed the policies detailed in the guide and have no competing interests.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101251"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141932109","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 eight-legged confidant: Narrativizing octopuses and non-human aging","authors":"Ruth Gehrmann","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101249","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101249","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article follows an increased interest in the octopus in both popular science and fiction. Octopuses have long held fascination and are commonly tied to processes of aging: Even though their life expectancy tends to be lower than that of humans, they are often framed as “old”, not only by appearing as mythical creatures from an unknown past but also by appearing wise and intelligent. Whereas the octopus has been framed as Other, prominently by inspiring the aesthetics of alien life forms, recent examples have underlined the possibility of inter-species contact and communication. This article traces these moments of contact and investigates the role of aging in such fictional encounters. By focusing on two recent examples, Shelby Van Pelt's <em>Remarkably Bright Creatures</em> (2022) and Gina Chung's <em>Sea Change</em> (2023), it illustrates the ways that contemporary fiction narratively links the octopus to older age and discusses forms of non-human aging.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101249"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141932002","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":"Animal companionship and psycho-social well-being: Findings from a national study of community-dwelling aging Canadians","authors":"Betty Jo Barrett ,&nbsp;Amy Fitzgerald ,&nbsp;Huda Al-Wahsh ,&nbsp;Mohamad Musa","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101247","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101247","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A growing body of evidence has provided support for the beneficial impact of human-animal interactions on a range of biological, social, and psychological outcomes for humans; however, less is conclusively known about the association between animal companionship and psycho-social health specifically among aging populations. In this study, we assessed the association between animal companionship and psycho-social well-being in a large sample (<em>N</em> = 30,865) of community dwelling Canadians aged 45 and older. Using cross-sectional data from the Canadian Community Health Survey-Healthy Aging, we conducted hierarchical multiple regression to assess the relationship between animal companionship and four domains of psycho-social well-being (satisfaction with life, loneliness, depression, and levels of social support) after controlling for socio-demographic factors and psycho-social measures. Results indicate that those with animal companionship report significantly higher levels of social support than aging Canadians without animal companionship; however, animal companionship was also associated with significantly lower levels of life satisfaction and higher levels of both loneliness and depression. These findings complicate the existing literature on human-animal interactions by suggesting the benefits associated with animal companionship may vary across distinct domains of psycho-social health. As such, results from this study highlight the need for more nuanced model specifications when assessing the relationship between animal companionship and psycho-social well-being. Implications of these findings for the provision of social services to older adults with pets are provided.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101247"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141960062","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":"Industry visions of technology for older adults: A futures anthropology perspective","authors":"Miguel Gomez-Hernandez","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101248","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101248","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The negative portrayal of ageing as a human decline burdening society has prompted Ageing Technology industries (AgeTech) to foresee solutions rooted in the Ageing in Place paradigm. These ostensibly neutral future interventions are intertwined with socio-technical dynamics. While Science and Technology Studies (STS) and anthropology scholars have questioned these AgeTech practices, limited literature explores industry's predictions of future AgeTech.</p><p>Drawing on STS and futures-anthropology literature, I interrogate AgeTech industry visions of future assemblages involving older people, smart home technology, and socio-material discourses rooted in their own discrepancies and dilemmas. To unpack AgeTech futures, my methods include a review of 49 industry reports and 29 interviews with industry experts. Based on the reports, I designed comics to be used in interviews with experts spanning CEOs and managers of companies designing technology for older people, consultants, and aged-care workers based in 12 countries.</p><p>Ageing futures are far from being neutral or a chronological process, instead they are non-consensual and fragmented. In the review and interviews, I captured future assemblages of a fragmented AgeTech industry in relationships with governments and industry giants. The fragmentation continues unfolding in participants from diverse countries and professions contesting dominant AgeTech narratives. In dissecting future assemblages, I also unpack non-consensual futures based on diverging experts' values (e.g. safety versus activity) and humans' values like control and improvisation challenging predictive and surveillance technology.</p><p>AgeTech Futures transcend physical matters or assemblages of technologies and humans. They encompass future normativities, tensions, divergent values, and ideological concepts. I propose not only alternatives to the visions found in industry narratives, but also encourage scholars to understand the AgeTech industry's dilemmas.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101248"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890406524000434/pdfft?md5=b0d3c030f638fc2bc65b61222a0237de&pid=1-s2.0-S0890406524000434-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141623095","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":"Outdated and re-configured: Challenging linear conceptualizations of ageing through the case of revived obsolete technologies","authors":"Cristina Ghita","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101246","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Taking as a starting point the conventional view of ageing as a linear process beginning in a youthful and productive stage but gradually deteriorating, this paper shifts the usual anthropocentric focal point towards technological artifacts which do not conform to this typical view. More specifically, three examples of technologies previously considered obsolete, but which have seen a revival in the last decade, are presented: the so-called dumbphones, analogue cameras, and vinyl players. Although very different at first glance, the three cases of these revived technologies show a similar evolution trajectory which breaks from the typical view of ageing in technological artifacts. Instead, they indicate how their revival does not simply entail a reconsideration of their initial value (such as it is often the case with antiques or heirlooms), but a transformation, hybridisation, and re-envisioned purpose.</p><p>To this effect, the agential realism theory is applied to show how the revival of technological artifacts and practices once considered outdated attempts to dissolve binaries such as old/new, young/old, or slow/fast. Furthermore, such artifacts reveal trajectories of ageing that are unlike their human counterparts, but which can make way for new manners of articulating issues pertaining to ageing as a process in humans as well.</p><p>The contribution of the paper lies in illustrating how adopting a non-linear view of ageing and fundamentally questioning its inherent binaries has the capacity to produce a much-needed nuanced view of ageing in humans, non-humans, and their sociomaterial entanglements.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101246"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890406524000410/pdfft?md5=88fce3d6104f500c6b82b19d59346f65&pid=1-s2.0-S0890406524000410-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141424564","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":"Visual and material representations of ageing, space and rhythms in everyday life","authors":"Wendy Martin ,&nbsp;Katy Pilcher","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101231","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A focus on the materiality within ageing studies brings into focus the material dimensions of space, rhythms and material objects in everyday life. The aim of this paper is to explore meanings around space in the context of the daily lives of people growing older and how materiality is embodied, embedded and performed in the material and social context of our everyday lives. The paper draws on data from the empirical research study <em>Photographing Everyday Life: Ageing, Lived Experiences, Time and Space</em> funded by the ESRC, UK. The focus of the project was to explore the significance of the ordinary and day-to-day and focus on the everyday meanings, lived experiences, practical activities, and social contexts in which people in mid-to-later life live their daily lives. The research involved a diverse sample of 62 women and men aged 50 years and over who took photographs of their different daily routines to create a weekly visual diary. The data reveals three interconnecting whilst analytically distinct themes within the materiality of ageing and the spaces around everyday life: (1) Space, materiality and everyday life; (2) Rhythms, routines and materiality; and (3) Social and material connectivity. The paper concludes by highlighting a complex engagement with space, in which participants drew and re-drew boundaries surrounding meanings of space, sometimes within the same interview or even within a discussion of the same photograph. Moreover, a focus on materiality has elicited rich and illuminating accounts of how people in mid-to-later life experience the intersections between ageing, bodies, time and space in their everyday lives.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101231"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141322418","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}