Cultures of Ageing: Self, Citizen and the Body

By C. Gilleard, P. Higgs. 2001

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Subfields: Demography, General Health Professions

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2. W. Martin
3. R. Dionigi
4. A. McMunn

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2. W. Martin
3. James Nazroo
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Citations in the corpus

• Transcending Emotional Community: A Qualitative Examination of Older Adults and Masters' Sports Participation (2007, background): “…the desire to actively resist the dominant negative stereotypes associated with aging (Flatten, 1991), the need to feel empowered to live a fulfilled and healthy life (Gilleard & Higgs, 2000), and a desire to delay as long as possible the negative effects of old age (McIntyre et al., 1992).”
• Competitive Sport as Leisure in Later Life: Negotiations, Discourse, and Aging (2006, background): “Therefore, positive aging and active living messages have the potential to establish a heightened undesirability, to encourage denial or fear of deep old age in the West (Blaikie), and to contribute in part to an individual’s attempt to resist the aging body (Gilleard & Higgs, 2000).”
• Participation in socially-productive activities, reciprocity and wellbeing in later life: baseline results in England (2009, background): “1999) and the growing number of people leaving paid employment prior to state pension age (Blundell, Meghir and Smith 2001; Laczko and Phillipson 1991) have contributed to the transformation of retirement for some into a period of health and activity, a period which has been labelled the ‘Third Age’”
• Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology (2015, background): “As Gilleard and Higgs (2000) have pointed out, unlike the third age, a fourth age identity is not one with which people willingly wish to identify.”
• Sport participation and positive development in older persons (2010, background): “This desire to ‘fight aging’ also has the potential to (re)produce a heightened fear or undesirability of ill health in old age (both personally and culturally; [10, 78]).”