Ageing and Later Life: Unsettling Development Assumptions

Penny Vera-Sanso, Julie Vullnetari and Tanja Bastia
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Penny Vera-Sanso: Penny Vera-Sanso is the corresponding author (p.vera-sanso@bbk.ac.uk), Birkbeck, University of London UK.
Julie Vullnetari: Julie Vullnetari is at the University of Southampton, UK.
Tanja Bastia: Tanja Bastia is at the University of Manchester, UK.

Progress in Development Studies, 2023, vol. 23, issue 4, 379-390

Abstract: This Special Issue brings into focus the topic of ageing and of older people, both of which have been neglected and/or narrowly addressed in development studies and policymaking. As such, this collection of articles seeks to unsettle some of the stereotypes that are commonplace in development debates that portray older people as frail, vulnerable, burdensome and passive. It does so by looking at the process of ageing and the lived experiences of older people across a range of topics and geographical locations. We hope that through this collection we have initiated a conversation around the place of ageing and older people in development from a relational and intergenerational perspective; that is, from a perspective that is focused around interdependence between older people and wider society rather than one restricted to the dependence of the former on the latter.

Keywords: Ageing and development; conceptualizations of age; interdependencies in ageing and development; intergenerational perspectives on ageing and development; older people in development; UN Decade of Healthy Ageing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/14649934231197348

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