Successful Images of Successful Ageing?
The dominant discourse concerning older people used to be one of decline and loss. Lately, however, representations of old age have tended to be more diverse and two paradigms have been introduced - one framing enfeeblement and one framing new, positive roles for older people, conceptualized as succ...
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| description | The dominant discourse concerning older people used to be one of decline and loss. Lately, however, representations of old age have tended to be more diverse and two paradigms have been introduced - one framing enfeeblement and one framing new, positive roles for older people, conceptualized as successful ageing. The present article demonstrates how representations of vigorous elderly people are construed in the programme VeteranTV, produced by UR, Swedish educational television. Part of the aim of VeteranTV was to enhance the image of life after 65 in an anti-ageist spirit. The article discusses the images of vigorous elderly people with respect to their emphasis on sameness or difference, their age-coding, the discourses and subject positions emphasized in them, and not least, their possible ageism. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-68a1908c9b0f4ff49d96c634b21352bd2023-08-02T07:20:14ZengSciendoNordicom Review2001-51192013-07-013419110310.2478/nor-2013-0045Successful Images of Successful Ageing?Wallander Kristina0Senior Lecturer (retired), Media and Communication Studies, Umeå UniversityThe dominant discourse concerning older people used to be one of decline and loss. Lately, however, representations of old age have tended to be more diverse and two paradigms have been introduced - one framing enfeeblement and one framing new, positive roles for older people, conceptualized as successful ageing. The present article demonstrates how representations of vigorous elderly people are construed in the programme VeteranTV, produced by UR, Swedish educational television. Part of the aim of VeteranTV was to enhance the image of life after 65 in an anti-ageist spirit. The article discusses the images of vigorous elderly people with respect to their emphasis on sameness or difference, their age-coding, the discourses and subject positions emphasized in them, and not least, their possible ageism.https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2013-0045images of older peoplesuccessful ageingageismureducational discoursenarrative strategies |
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| title | Successful Images of Successful Ageing? |
| title_full | Successful Images of Successful Ageing? |
| title_fullStr | Successful Images of Successful Ageing? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Successful Images of Successful Ageing? |
| title_short | Successful Images of Successful Ageing? |
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| topic | images of older people successful ageing ageism ur educational discourse narrative strategies |
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