Ageing science, health care and social inclusion of older people

Latimer, Joanna Elizabeth, Davis, Terence ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2780-0262, Bagley, Mark Christopher and Kipling, David Glyn 2011. Ageing science, health care and social inclusion of older people. Quality in Ageing and Older Adults 12 (1) , pp. 11-16. 10.5042/qiaoa.2011.0140

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Abstract

In this paper we present preliminary findings from a study of the social, ethical and cultural aspects of ageing science and medicine. The paper draws on a collaborative, ongoing project between life scientists and sociologists, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) New Dynamics of Ageing Programme1 and the ESRC Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics2. The sociological element of this project involves participant observation and interviews with expert scientists who specialise in ageing and age-related diseases, both in the UK and the US, as well as interviews with sceptics of ageing science and medicine. There has been much critique of how ageing science is anti-ageing, reinforcing the ageism prevalent in Western culture. Our specific objective in this paper is to suggest how biogerontology can contribute to the social inclusion of older people, particularly in relation to health care. We discuss how agesim is endemic to some aspects of health care, and go on to show how the ways that biogerontology is reconceptualising what it is to age, and to be old, can help reinclude ageing and the aged in health-care education, policy and practice.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen) Chemistry Medicine Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Ageing science, Ageism, Biogerontology, Health care, Older people, Social inclusion
Publisher:	Emerald
ISSN:	1471-7794
Funders:	ESRC
Last Modified:	14 Dec 2022 02:14
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/17762

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