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{"title":"Discrimination and loneliness among transgender older adults","authors":"Sacramento Pinazo-Hernandis,&nbsp;Celia Carrascosa","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101334","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101334","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Many members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) population have experienced marginalisation throughout their lives. Most related research has focused on the LGBT population in general; however, it is necessary to focus on transgender people because they are particularly socially marginalised and are at greater risk of stigmatisation and discrimination in various aspects across their lifespan and during old age. The aim of this research is to study the experiences of discrimination, the associated feelings of loneliness, and the social support of transgender people over the age of 45. A mixed methodology and a cross-sectional design were used. Twenty-seven transgender people aged 45–77 years answered an online questionnaire that combined open-ended and closed-ended questions. The results of this study revealed different situations of discrimination experienced by older transgender people (62.9 % said they had been discriminated against), low levels of social support (48.1 %) and high scores in loneliness (with 74.1 % of participants scoring high levels of loneliness). If high levels of loneliness and discrimination are related to various health problems, transgender people could find diverse difficulties during their ageing in addition to those of normal biological ageing. Knowing which situations of discrimination affect transgender older people and their relationship with psychological well-being will help to promote better ageing and assist in identifying the most appropriate targets for community-based psychosocial interventions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 101334"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144124764","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":"At Your Age?! and AgeACTED: a theoretical exploration of an ethnodrama on ageism","authors":"Elaine Desmond,&nbsp;Eleanor Bantry White","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101349","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101349","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article provides a theoretical exploration of an ethnodrama project on ageism entitled AgeACTED (Ageism Challenged Through Ethnodrama). The theatre script, <em>At Your Age?!</em>, which was the output of AgeACTED uses the verbatim words of six ‘third age’ women aged between 64 and 75. This article explores the script and discussions that informed it using the Terror Management Theory of ageism and the threat of death, animality, and insignificance, which it describes. The difficult discussions around the representation of death and the fourth age indicated that, for the women in AgeACTED, fear of the fourth age was more significant than fear of death. The article explores how the women framed their successful ageing in the third age and contrasted this with a stereotyped and feared fourth age imaginary. This future imaginary served as both a source of fear and as the motivation to avoid it by prolonging the third age. Thus, while AgeACTED set out to explore how the women were subjected <em>to</em> ageism, it found that ageist stereotypes were also internalised <em>within</em> their ageing process, particularly in relation to the fourth age. This article highlights the urgent need for a re-evaluation of fourth age institutionalised care. It also argues, however, for the promotion of more diversified, less distressing imaginaries of the fourth age, and alternative sources of self-esteem and resilience for those in the third age, which are not reliant upon the avoidance of, and comparison with, a stereotyped and detrimental imaginary.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 101349"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144703668","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":"When technology non-use troubles good ageing","authors":"Carla Greubel ,&nbsp;Daniel López Gómez ,&nbsp;Susan van Hees ,&nbsp;Ellen H.M. Moors ,&nbsp;Alexander Peine","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101324","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101324","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In ageing research, policy, and practice, older adults' non-use of digital technologies is often discussed as an involuntary state that risks marginalising older adults. In recent years, critical appraisals of technology non-use in gerontological literature have opened up dominant definitions of non-use as a problem, re-constructing older adults' engagement with technology as diverse and deliberate practices. To understand the multifaceted nature of what is considered non-use, however, these studies have often focused on older adults who self-identify as non-users, or on criteria of non-use that these researchers themselves established.</div><div>In this paper, we suggest a more processual and dialogical approach. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews and participant observation with providers and participants of a digital social care service for the prevention of social isolation and loneliness in old age, we show that ascriptions of ‘non-users’ to older adults may come from different actors, and that they may be in conflict with how the older adults define their engagement with technologies. Taking those <em>frictions</em> between different ascriptions of use and non-use into consideration, as well as the <em>socio-material negotiations</em> through which such frictions are responded to, our analysis reveals how non-use is intertwined with notions of ‘good ageing’. In the context of digital health and social care services for older people, whose mission is to facilitate ‘good ageing’, negotiations about use and non-use are in fact negotiations about different ways of understanding and enacting good ageing in practice.</div><div>Reflecting on insights from our study, we propose ways to improve the ability of human and non-human actors to respond to each other's diverse forms of understanding and enacting good ageing. Cultivating such ‘response-ability’ may open alternatives to a gradual disengagement for older persons participating in digital health and social care services by allowing more diverse forms of good ageing to co-exist. As a result, non-use can shift from being a problem or concern to being an indication of ways of improving ‘good ageing’ together.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 101324"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144261522","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":"Introducing the FACE framework: Rethinking age-friendly communities through lived experiences in regional Australia","authors":"Ting Song ,&nbsp;Amy Tapsell ,&nbsp;Lorna Moxham ,&nbsp;Mark Jones ,&nbsp;David Hailey ,&nbsp;Bo Du ,&nbsp;Rod Young ,&nbsp;Ping Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101382","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101382","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With the unprecedented growth of the ageing population and increasing urbanisation, age-friendly community (AFC) initiatives have gained significant global momentum. However, existing AFC research has largely prioritised the perspectives of implementers in metropolitan or rural contexts, leaving a critical gap in understanding how community members, particularly those in regional areas, conceptualise age-friendliness and express their needs and priorities. Guided by environmental gerontology, which emphasises the dynamic interaction between individuals and their environments, and geographical gerontology, which focuses on the role of place and spatial context, this qualitative study explores perceptions of AFCs among middle-aged and older adults (≥45 years) living in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 participants, transcribed verbatim and analysed thematically. From participants' perspectives, we developed the FACE framework, comprising four interconnected dimensions: Facilitators, Ambitions, Conditions, and Engagement. Facilitators represent the drivers of AFC development, including government, non-government organisations, and individuals who raise awareness and provide support. Ambitions capture older adults' aspirations for independence, continuity of lifestyle, and emotional security. Conditions include intrinsic factors (e.g., mobility, health, emotional well-being) and extrinsic factors (e.g., housing, transport, health care, recreational infrastructure) that shape the fulfilment of the ambitions. Engagement reflects older adults' participation in community life, shaped by the availability, accessibility, affordability, and acceptability of relevant services and resources. The FACE framework offers a structured, community-informed, and theoretically grounded approach to guide the development and evaluation of AFCs, particularly in regional settings, with potential adaptability to diverse communities across Australia and internationally. By centring the lived experiences and perspectives of middle-aged and older residents, this study contributes to a more comprehensive and place-sensitive understanding of AFCs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 101382"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145519086","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":"Exit, voice and loyalty in everyday home care practice for older adults: Using a telephone diary method","authors":"Håkan Jönson,&nbsp;Tove Harnett","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101385","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101385","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Older adults are often portrayed as unwilling or unable to address quality issues in the formal care they receive. This study explores a methodology that captures the everyday reactions of older care users to quality problems, offering a nuanced understanding of their voice and agency when dissatisfied with care services. Using a telephone diary method, eight care users were contacted twice a week over three weeks to discuss the services they had received in recent days. The data, comprising 45 interviews, were analyzed using Hirschman's exit, voice, loyalty framework to identify strategies employed by care users. Four strategies were identified: (1) everyday voice, involving reminders and complaints to staff and managers; (2) temporary exits, where users avoided unpleasant situations, sometimes as a signal to the organization; (3) renegotiation of needs, involving communication with needs assessors to revise service decisions; and (4) silence, motivated by loyalty, resignation, or fear of being labeled a “problematic” care user. The findings highlight that care users employ various strategies to improve service quality, many of which might not surface during single-occasion interviews. Recognizing these strategies, care providers should enhance communication channels to address concerns. Addressing the fear of being labeled as problematic is essential, as it risks silencing crucial feedback. This study advocates for reinterpreting expressions of dissatisfaction as efforts to uphold older adults' human rights as rights-holders, reframing voice activities as a pathway to quality improvements.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 101385"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145614584","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 into (in)visibility: Tracing Hijra life narratives in Dayanita Singh's Myself Mona Ahmed.","authors":"Riya Chawla, Preeti Bhatt","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101350","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The most poignant challenges experienced by South Asian Hijras (the culturally marginalized transgender community in India that is associated with various rituals, roles, and responsibilities) are related to the lack of family support and discrimination due to their gender identity. Family support for the Hijras is usually withdrawn at a very early age, and it becomes even more devastating as they age, leading to their social isolation and causing them emotional distress. Predominant literature on the trans community in India focuses on the young queer body and the triumphant coming of age of trans individuals as young queer adults. In contrast, the representation of older queer individuals in literature is strikingly absent. This paper attempts to demystify the aging experiences of transgender individuals in India through a critical analysis of the landmark photobook of Dayanita Singh's Myself Mona Ahmed (2001) to gain insight about how they cultivate solidarity in the community to imagine a collective trans future. Dayanita Singh documents Mona Ahmed's journey of loneliness when her adopted daughter Ayesha is forcibly taken away; later, she has a falling out with her community, leading her to become an \"outcast of an outcast.\" The cultural significance associated with conventional family structure and inter-generational bonds makes the estrangement from one's family even more devastating for the trans community. Through this paper, we will delve into the story of Mona Ahmed, an upper-class Muslim trans woman who is seen to be constantly oscillating between her identities and repeatedly trying to recreate a family as an aging transgender person.</p>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"75 ","pages":"101350"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145696473","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":"Queer temporality in Tony Kushner's angels in America","authors":"Lea Pešec","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101354","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101354","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tony Kushner's <em>Angels in America</em>, written in two parts during the early 1990s, vividly depicts the experiences of queer individuals confronting the AIDS crisis. Examined through the framework of anocriticism and queer temporality, the play challenges traditional life trajectories focused on reproduction, aging, and progress. Drawing on the work of theorists such as Roberta Maierhofer, Jack Halberstam, and Elizabeth Freeman, this analysis investigates how the play's fragmented narrative and interplay of supernatural and historical elements blur the boundaries between past, present, and future. Characters like Prior Walter and the Angel illustrate the tensions of queer aging and temporality. Prior's illness and his encounters with the Angel destabilize linear notions of life and death, creating a suspended sense of time where aging becomes unpredictable. The Angel's portrayal of time as cyclical and fractured disrupts assumptions that aging must follow a structured, linear path. By engaging with these temporal disruptions, <em>Angels in America</em> critiques socially constructed ideals of aging tied to health, productivity, and heteronormative family models. The play instead imagines futures shaped by resilience, interpersonal connection, and the transformative possibilities of queer existence beyond fixed life scripts. This critical reading positions Kushner's work as a vital contribution to critical conversations on aging, queerness, and temporality.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101354"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145007789","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":"Intergenerational co-relations and resistance: Gendered aging in Ruth Ozeki's All Over Creation (2002)","authors":"Nicole Haring","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101353","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101353","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101353"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145007706","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":"Secondary mediation of children's media use: An exploration of mothers-grandmothers' mediation dynamic","authors":"Galit Nimrod ,&nbsp;Nelly Elias ,&nbsp;Dafna Lemish","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101357","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101357","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Attempts to shape children's media use by affecting other caregivers' mediation practices, defined here as “secondary mediation,” are a significant yet relatively undiscussed family dynamic. By investigating 267 dyads of the two primary caregivers in intergenerational families—mothers and grandmothers—the study presented in this article sheds light on the prevalence of secondary mediation, the factors predicting it, and its consequences. Our findings point to a considerable gap between the mothers and the grandmothers in reporting the existence of secondary mediation. Yet, they suggest that secondary mediation within these dyads depends on the relationship between the two generations, their level of education, their experience and comfort with the media used by the children, and the time the grandmothers spend caregiving for the grandchildren. These findings are interpreted in light of Maierhofer's ‘anocriticism’ approach, pointing to the need for further research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101357"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145007786","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":"Exploring the epic of older women's lives: Alexander Zeldin's The Confessions and Jan Vilanova's The Most Beautiful Thing We Can Do as intergenerational dramaturgies of the female life course","authors":"Núria Casado-Gual","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101359","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101359","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Five decades after the term ‘herstory’ (Morgan 1970) was proposed, stories which have vindicated the social and historical role of anonymous women have proliferated in different biographical genres. More recently, the devastating effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on older people has also generated the need to generate or examine narratives of ageing (Jewusiak 2023) and to strengthen generational relationships (Ayalon et al. 2020). Despite the technical (and sometimes ethical) challenges posed by the act of representing the lives of others in the ageist and sexist cultures of the so-called advanced world (Friedan 1993; Gullette 2004; Sontag 1972; Woodward 1999), writing about or representing the lives of older women in particular can help restore constructive meanings of female old age from which all generations can benefit.</div><div>Drawing on the interdisciplinary framework of ageing studies in its intersections with gender and theatre studies, this paper examines two plays which, in London's and Barcelona's theatrical scenes, have recently placed the lives of anonymous older women in the spotlight: Jan Vilanova's <em>The Most Beautiful Thing We Can Do</em> (produced by Sixto Paz in 2022) and Alexander Zeldin's <em>The Confessions</em> (co-produced by the National Theatre in 2023). While Vilanova's text recreates the life of the author's grandmother, an anonymous Spanish woman who survived two wars and lived as an exile for most of her life, Zeldin's presents the personal journey of the writer and director's own mother, who was born in Australia and found a new life for herself as a divorcée and abuse survivor in London in the 1970s. Through a close reading of the two texts that builds on Roberta Maierhofer's (1999) pivotal concept of “anocriticism,” and in the light of Elinor Fuchs' age-focused interpretation of Brechtian theatre, the article observes the dramatic strategies whereby these two intergenerational ‘herstories’ for the stage can be considered ‘epic’ narratives of the female life course.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101359"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145007787","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}