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4 results found in gerontology.
- Active Aging (Active Ageing, Healthy Aging, Successful Aging)
- A policy framework and paradigm promoted by the World Health Organization that emphasizes maintaining physical activity, social engagement, and independence in later life to improve health outcomes an…
- Biomedicalization of Aging (Medicalization of Aging)
- The tendency, identified by critical gerontologists, to reduce the complexity of later life to problems of physical and cognitive decline requiring medical or technological intervention. Biomedicaliza…
- Critical Gerontology
- An interdisciplinary approach to the study of aging that critiques the dominant biomedical framing of later life and foregrounds structural, political, and cultural influences on older people's experi…
- Socio-Gerontechnology
- A theoretical framework, developed by Alexander Peine and Louis Neven, that analyses aging and technology as mutually constitutive: technologies do not simply serve pre-existing aging needs, and aging…