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Positive Aging and PrecarityPrecarity and Views on Aging

Positive Aging and Precarity: Precarity and Views on Aging [This chapter argues that precarityPrecarity shapes views on agingViews on aging by generating and encouraging specific negative images concerning old age, by stimulating the reinvention of positive agingPositive aging images and by increasing the discrepancy between positive agingPositive aging ideals and the social reality of precarityPrecarity. First, the chapter examines the negative images forged by precarityPrecarity and illustrates the fearsFears about aging of agingAging that are linked to precarityPrecarity. The point is made that negative images of agingAging are similar in precarious and financially secure individuals since both groups share the same precarious reality. Although negative views on agingNegative views on aging are similar in precarious and financially secure individuals, their hopes and coping mechanism differ depending on the resources they have. In this respect, precarious individuals experience more barriers toward reaching a positive old age. Accumulating disadvantages may lead to increasing social and health inequalitiesSocial and health inequalities in old age. The chapter goes on to explain how positive agingPositive aging views are reinvented in a precarious context. It is argued that precarious individuals create alternative positive images of agingAging that cannot be integrated in the mainstream active aging policyActive aging policy discourse.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Positive Aging and PrecarityPrecarity and Views on Aging

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
ISBN
978-3-030-14254-4
Pages
129 –147
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-14255-1_8
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Abstract

[This chapter argues that precarityPrecarity shapes views on agingViews on aging by generating and encouraging specific negative images concerning old age, by stimulating the reinvention of positive agingPositive aging images and by increasing the discrepancy between positive agingPositive aging ideals and the social reality of precarityPrecarity. First, the chapter examines the negative images forged by precarityPrecarity and illustrates the fearsFears about aging of agingAging that are linked to precarityPrecarity. The point is made that negative images of agingAging are similar in precarious and financially secure individuals since both groups share the same precarious reality. Although negative views on agingNegative views on aging are similar in precarious and financially secure individuals, their hopes and coping mechanism differ depending on the resources they have. In this respect, precarious individuals experience more barriers toward reaching a positive old age. Accumulating disadvantages may lead to increasing social and health inequalitiesSocial and health inequalities in old age. The chapter goes on to explain how positive agingPositive aging views are reinvented in a precarious context. It is argued that precarious individuals create alternative positive images of agingAging that cannot be integrated in the mainstream active aging policyActive aging policy discourse.]

Published: May 11, 2019

Keywords: Views on aging; Precarity; Positive aging; Social and health inequalities

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