Ageing

Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard

Chapter 22 in Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine, 2023, pp 339-353 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter will outline the potential significance for medical sociology of ageing and its increasing importance for understanding health in contemporary societies. It will highlight the inter-connection between the biological processes of ageing and senescence, and the wider social structures within which these processes take place. Within this matrix of biological, cultural, and social change that typifies the ageing of the advanced economies, it will focus upon the polarising imaginaries of a third and a fourth age; one fostering models of an active, healthy and productive later life, the other, a much darker imaginary preoccupied by issues of frailty, cognitive impairment, and institutionalisation.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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