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All fluff and no substance? The ‘problem’ of care in popular narratives, the cozy mystery and Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club 只有绒毛，没有实质？流行叙事中的关怀“问题”、温馨的谜团和理查德·奥斯曼的《星期四谋杀俱乐部》

IF 1.9 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2026.101403

M. Isabel Santaulària Capdevila, Àngels Llurda-Marí

Age studies scholarship has increasingly interrogated the intersection of care for older adults and neoliberal market ideologies. This study explores how popular culture, specifically the cozy mystery genre, negotiates the language and optics of care for older adults in terms of costs and accessibility. Taken as a whole, the stories with ageing detectives offer invigorating alternatives to the traditional decline narratives by sustaining the protagonists as older detectives who still keep their autonomy, independence, and more important productivity by solving cases. While such representations offer exhilarating alternatives to ageist stereotypes, they also risk making older protagonists' value contingent on productivity and activity, while obscuring their potential care needs and the issue of access to care services from the reader. Through a close reading of Richard Osman's debut novel The Thursday Murder Club, this article explores the idealized depiction of later life care within the luxurious retirement village Coopers Chase. The analysis reveals that while the genre guarantees a sugar-coated and comfortable reading experience, it also allows for a reflection on how social changes impact the community, particularly regarding later life care. Ultimately, the article argues that the idealized depiction of the protagonists' later life care facilities exposes a key reality of care under the neoliberal ethos: enjoying quality of life and care in older age becomes a luxury, taken for granted only by those with the means to pay for it.

年龄研究学者越来越多地质疑老年人护理与新自由主义市场意识形态之间的交集。本研究探讨了流行文化，特别是舒适的神秘类型，如何在成本和可及性方面协商老年人护理的语言和光学。从整体上看，这些关于老年侦探的故事为传统的衰落叙事提供了令人振奋的选择，通过维持主人公作为老年侦探的角色，他们仍然保持着自主性、独立性，更重要的是，他们通过破案来保持生产力。虽然这种表现方式为年龄歧视的刻板印象提供了令人振奋的替代方案，但它们也有可能使老年主角的价值取决于生产力和活动，同时模糊了他们潜在的护理需求和读者获得护理服务的问题。通过仔细阅读理查德·奥斯曼的处女作小说《星期四谋杀俱乐部》，本文探讨了在豪华的退休村库伯斯蔡斯对晚年生活护理的理想化描述。分析显示，虽然这种类型的小说保证了一种舒适的阅读体验，但它也允许人们反思社会变化对社区的影响，特别是在晚年护理方面。最后，文章认为，主人公晚年生活护理设施的理想化描述暴露了新自由主义精神下护理的一个关键现实：享受老年生活质量和护理成为一种奢侈品，只有那些有能力支付的人才认为这是理所当然的。

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Community-based support for older LGBTQIA+ adults: The case of Eternamente Sou in São Paulo, Brazil 基于社区对LGBTQIA+老年人的支持：巴西圣保罗Eternamente Sou的案例

IF 1.9 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2026.101406

Rita Carvalho , Sara Guerra , Liliana Sousa , João Tavares

The experiences of older lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) adults are still neglected in public policies, organizations and services, which results in limited tailored support for this population. This case study aims to contribute to affirmative care within community gerontology by examining the structure, everyday practices, and perceived impact of Eternamente Sou (E.Sou), a community-based organization supporting older LGBTQIA+ adults in São Paulo (Brazil). E.Sou is dedicated to supporting this population through affirmative practices and community building. Using participant observation, document analysis, and a 120-min collective conversation circle, we conducted a case study. Through reflexive thematic analysis, three theme were identified: (1) E.Sou: “Made it happen” (Path from inception to consolidation); (2) Practices of care and advocacy (meeting the needs of older LGBTQIA+ adults); (3) Participation and effects on older LGBTQIA+ adults (Engagement, empowerment, and influence on wellbeing). Findings showed that E.Sou addresses urgent needs of older LGBTQIA+ adults while providing a space to affirm identities, foster community, and collectively reshape experiences of aging. This case study contributes to expanding international dialogue on LGBTQIA+ aging and offering transferable lessons for affirmative policy and practice aligned with the Leave No One Behind principle of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

在公共政策、组织和服务中，老年女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋、跨性别、酷儿/质疑、双性人和无性恋（LGBTQIA+）成年人的经历仍然被忽视，导致对这一人群的针对性支持有限。本案例研究旨在通过研究Eternamente Sou （E.Sou）的结构、日常实践和感知影响，为社区老年学中的积极护理做出贡献。Eternamente Sou是巴西圣保罗的一个以社区为基础的组织，支持LGBTQIA+老年人。esou致力于通过积极的做法和社区建设来支持这一群体。通过参与者观察、文献分析和120分钟的集体对话圈，我们进行了一个案例研究。通过反身性主题分析，确定了三个主题：(1)E.Sou：“实现”（从开始到整合的路径）；(2)关爱和倡导实践（满足老年LGBTQIA+成年人的需求）；(3) LGBTQIA+老年人的参与及其影响（参与、赋权和对幸福感的影响）。研究结果表明，E.Sou解决了老年LGBTQIA+成年人的迫切需求，同时提供了一个空间来确认身份，促进社区发展，并共同重塑衰老的经历。本案例研究有助于扩大关于LGBTQIA+老龄化的国际对话，并为符合《2030年可持续发展议程》“不让任何一个人掉队”原则的平权政策和实践提供可转移的经验教训。

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Care work and status subjugation: An exploration of the relationship between care work organisation and training, and the recruitment crisis in adult long-term care 护理工作与地位征服：成人长期护理中护理工作组织与培训的关系及招聘危机的探讨。

IF 1.9 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2026.101411

Carolyn Downs , Mike Ryder , T. Bartosz Kalinowski , Ilona Swiatek-Barylska

Using data from interviews, workshops and focus groups with 149 care workers across five European countries, we show how a combination of organisational structures and social constructs impact recruitment and retention in the adult social care sector. Our study focusses on the lived experience of residential and domiciliary care workers, identifying low status, role stigma and organisational structures as key barriers to personal and professional development leading to role dissatisfaction. Our research explores specific constraints faced by care workers and proposes processes, which could increase the status of care workers and improve recruitment and retention within the sector.

利用来自五个欧洲国家149名护理工作者的访谈、研讨会和焦点小组的数据，我们展示了组织结构和社会结构的结合如何影响成人社会护理部门的招聘和保留。我们的研究集中在住宿和家庭护理工作者的生活经历上，确定低地位，角色耻辱和组织结构是导致角色不满的个人和专业发展的主要障碍。我们的研究探讨了护工面临的具体限制，并提出了可以提高护工地位并改善该部门招聘和保留的流程。

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‘The point isn't that we're old, but that we're the founders’: A generational perspective on older adults' protest participation “问题不在于我们老了，而在于我们是创始人”：从一代人的角度看老年人参与抗议活动

IF 1.9 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101395

Gabriela Spector-Mersel , Ayelet Dassa

A generational perspective is effective in exploring older adults' social participation, yet it has rarely been employed to examine their political engagement. To explore the potential role of generational affiliation in later-life protest participation, we employed Mannheim's generational framework to investigate older Israelis' massive participation in the 2023 social protest. Through four focus-group interviews, comprising 27 Israeli Jews regularly participating in the protest, we scrutinised participation motivations, experiences, and the meanings attributed to their age concerning participation. A framework analysis identified four themes: 1) Participants recounted a narrative of participation that positioned their protest as linking their past contributions to Israel's founding and existence, to the future, represented by their offspring. This narrative, based on participants' self-identification as the founding generation, provided a sense of generativity, stemming from their efforts to protect the legacy they leave for future generations. 2) Participation experience intertwined a sense of generational belonging, establishing participants' collective identity as founders, and intergenerational belonging, representing their desire to belong to the state they built, thereby resisting their ageist marginalization. 3) Participants' self-depiction as the ‘tribal elders,’ guiding and supporting younger protesters, was intertwined with being ‘the founders,’ permitting them to acknowledge age-related limitations in the protest without being considered ‘ordinary’ old people. 4) Participants neutralised age as relevant in their protest, corresponding with their mythic founders' status. Our study demonstrates the merits of a generational perspective in identifying further layers of meaning in older people's political participation. Its employment can enrich understanding of past findings and generate future insights regarding this growing phenomenon.

代际视角在探索老年人的社会参与方面是有效的，但很少被用来研究他们的政治参与。为了探索代际关系在晚年抗议参与中的潜在作用，我们采用了曼海姆的代际框架来调查以色列老年人在2023年社会抗议中的大规模参与。通过四个焦点小组访谈，包括27名经常参加抗议的以色列犹太人，我们仔细研究了参与的动机、经历，以及他们参与的年龄所带来的意义。一项框架分析确定了四个主题：1)参与者讲述了他们的参与叙事，将他们的抗议定位为将他们过去对以色列的建立和存在的贡献与他们后代所代表的未来联系起来。这种基于参与者作为开国元勋一代的自我认同的叙述，提供了一种产生感，源于他们努力保护自己为后代留下的遗产。2)参与体验交织着代际归属感，建立了参与者作为创始人的集体身份认同；代际归属感，代表了他们对自己所建立的国家的归属感，从而抵制了年龄歧视的边缘化。3)参与者将自己描述为引导和支持年轻抗议者的“部落长者”，这与“发起人”的身份交织在一起，让他们在抗议活动中承认与年龄有关的限制，而不会被视为“普通”老年人。4)参与者将年龄作为抗议的相关因素，与他们神话般的创始人身份相对应。我们的研究证明了代际视角在确定老年人政治参与的更深层次意义方面的优点。它的使用可以丰富对过去发现的理解，并对这一日益增长的现象产生未来的见解。

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Experiencing long-term care in later life: Urban indigenous elders' perspectives from Taiwan 在晚年经历长期照护：来自台湾都市原住民长者的视角

IF 1.9 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2026.101408

Hong Hong

As populations age, long-term care (LTC) systems increasingly shape older adults' everyday experiences of aging. However, how these systems are encountered and interpreted by marginalized older populations remains underexplored. This qualitative study examines the lived experiences of urban Indigenous elders in Taiwan, with a specific focus on Bunun elders living outside tribal contexts, and explores how long-term care is navigated under conditions of cultural displacement and structural inequality.

Drawing on in-depth interviews with urban Indigenous (Bunun) elders and key care- and community-related actors—including family caregivers, a home-care provider, and a church leader—this study investigates how interactions with LTC services influence elders' sense of belonging, dignity, and cultural safety in later life. The findings reveal persistent tensions between standardized care practices and culturally grounded expectations of care, resulting in experiences of invisibility, misrecognition, and emotional withdrawal. Participants described how linguistic barriers, culturally insensitive service routines, and institutional assumptions about aging contributed to feelings of marginalization within ostensibly supportive care environments.

By foregrounding the perspectives of urban Indigenous elders, this study contributes to aging studies by illustrating how long-term care systems function not only as sites of support but also as arenas where cultural identities and social inequalities are reproduced in later life. The findings highlight the importance of culturally responsive approaches to aging services and extend discussions of cultural safety and structural inequality within contemporary gerontology.

随着人口老龄化，长期护理（LTC）系统越来越多地影响老年人的日常衰老经历。然而，边缘化的老年人口如何面对和解释这些制度仍未得到充分探讨。本质性研究检视台湾城市原住民长者的生活经验，特别关注居住在部落之外的布农长者，并探讨在文化位移和结构不平等的情况下，长期照护是如何进行的。通过对城市土著（布农族）老人和主要的护理和社区相关行为者（包括家庭照顾者、家庭护理提供者和教会领袖）的深入访谈，本研究调查了与LTC服务的互动如何影响老年人晚年的归属感、尊严感和文化安全感。研究结果揭示了标准化护理实践与基于文化的护理期望之间持续存在的紧张关系，导致了被忽视、被误解和情绪退缩的经历。参与者描述了语言障碍、文化上不敏感的服务程序和关于老龄化的制度假设如何在表面上支持的护理环境中造成边缘化的感觉。通过突出城市土著老年人的观点，本研究通过说明长期护理系统如何不仅作为支持场所，而且作为文化身份和社会不平等在以后生活中再现的场所，为老龄化研究做出了贡献。研究结果强调了对老龄化服务采取文化响应方法的重要性，并在当代老年学中扩展了对文化安全和结构不平等的讨论。

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‘Aging without growing old’: Identity reconstruction and individualization among rural older adults in China “不变老的老龄化”：中国农村老年人的身份重构与个体化

IF 1.9 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2026.101401

Xin Liu , Paul Higgs , Chris Gilleard

The specific nature of China’s path toward greater individualization often places rural older adults in a dual predicament, in which traditional family caregiving responsibilities are eroding, while the socialized care system for older adults remains inadequately resourced. Drawing on both observational and semi-structured interview methods, this study examines how rural older adults navigate these challenges in their everyday lives and the strategies they employ to adapt. The findings indicate that the erosion of older adults’ authority within families and the transition from a caregiving model based on filial obligation to a reciprocity-based care model have become widely recognized realities. In response to these transformations, older adults actively endeavor to sustain their status within the family by redistributing relational resources through both market and household labor and by seeking opportunities for reciprocal exchanges. Moreover, they redefine their perceptions of ‘support’ and adjust their identities through practices such as ‘digital inclusion’. The study contributes to theories of individualization and aging by revealing a dual mode of agency—both instrumental and moral—through which rural older adults not only manage structural precarity but in doing so, reconstruct dignity, identity and meaning in later life.

中国走向更个性化的道路的特殊性往往使农村老年人陷入双重困境，传统的家庭照顾责任正在受到侵蚀，而老年人的社会化照顾系统仍然资源不足。本研究采用观察和半结构化访谈两种方法，考察了农村老年人如何在日常生活中应对这些挑战，以及他们采用的适应策略。研究结果表明，老年人在家庭中的权威受到侵蚀，从以孝顺义务为基础的照顾模式向以互惠为基础的照顾模式的转变已成为广泛认可的现实。为了应对这些转变，老年人通过市场和家务劳动重新分配关系资源，并寻求互惠交换的机会，积极努力维持他们在家庭中的地位。此外，他们重新定义了他们对“支持”的看法，并通过“数字包容”等实践调整了他们的身份。该研究通过揭示一种双重代理模式——工具和道德——为个体化和老龄化理论做出了贡献，通过这种模式，农村老年人不仅管理结构性不稳定，而且在这样做的过程中，在以后的生活中重建尊严、身份和意义。

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The etiquette of access: Cultural press, relational accessibility, and the embodied negotiation of belonging in later life 接触的礼仪：文化压力，关系的可及性，以及晚年生活中归属感的具体谈判

IF 1.9 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2026.101407

Yomna El-Ghazouly

Although accessibility is increasingly understood as socially and relationally shaped, discussions still tend to emphasize structural, institutional, or individually-oriented approaches. This paper extends these conversations by adopting a micro-relational perspective that foregrounds how accessibility is enacted through the sensory, ethical, and interactional work that unfolds between people in everyday life. The paper uses embodied spatial exploration to elicit tacit, relational knowledge often inaccessible through conventional interviews. Drawing on participatory sessions and group discussion with nineteen older adults aged 70–85, the study examines how participants' so-called “complaints” about pace, sound, and interaction function as situated critiques that reveal the hidden cultural and sensory infrastructures of public space.

The analysis advances three interrelated concepts. Relational accessibility captures how access to participation is co-produced through reciprocal adjustment rather than determined by individual capacity or spatial design. Embodied mediation highlights how perception, gesture, and affect operate as channels through which people and environments co-create legibility, safety, and comfort. Cultural press describes the moral and social expectations that act as environmental demands shaping participation and belonging. These three concepts reveal accessibility as a situational and ethical process enacted through the interplay of etiquette, perception, and mutual care.

By tracing older adults' strategies of slowing, signaling, resisting, and recalibrating, the paper extends environmental perspectives beyond structural fit and cultural approaches beyond representation. It concludes that accessibility in later life depends not only on built environments but on the ethics of coexistence and the collective capacity to notice, adjust, and care within shared spaces.

虽然可及性越来越被理解为社会和关系的形成，但讨论仍然倾向于强调结构、制度或个人导向的方法。本文通过采用微观关系视角扩展了这些对话，该视角展望了可访问性是如何通过日常生活中人们之间展开的感官、伦理和互动工作来实现的。本文使用具身空间探索来引出通常通过常规访谈无法获得的隐性关系知识。通过与19位年龄在70-85岁之间的老年人进行参与式会议和小组讨论，该研究考察了参与者对节奏、声音和互动的所谓“抱怨”如何作为情境批评，揭示了公共空间中隐藏的文化和感官基础设施。分析提出了三个相互关联的概念。关系可达性捕获了如何通过相互调整而不是由个人能力或空间设计决定共同产生参与的机会。具身调解强调了感知、姿态和影响如何作为渠道运作，通过这些渠道，人和环境共同创造易读性、安全性和舒适性。文化新闻描述了道德和社会期望，这些期望作为塑造参与和归属感的环境要求。这三个概念揭示了可达性是一种情境和道德过程，通过礼仪、感知和相互关怀的相互作用而制定。通过追踪老年人减缓、发出信号、抵抗和重新校准的策略，本文扩展了结构契合之外的环境视角和代表性之外的文化方法。该研究的结论是，晚年生活的可达性不仅取决于建筑环境，还取决于共存的伦理以及在共享空间中注意、调整和照顾的集体能力。

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Autobiographical accounts of living with dementia: Life story narration as self-care 痴呆症患者的自传体叙述：作为自我照顾的生活故事叙述

IF 1.9 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101375

Valerie Keller, Malte Völk

Based on statements from people with dementia on the positive impact of reflecting on one's own biography, this study examines the ways in which life story narration can help those affected make sense of a disrupted present and a fragmented life characterised by forgetfulness. In this paper we analyse both oral and written accounts of everyday life as told by people living with dementia. In doing so we apply a heuristic based on the notion of key (auto)biographical strands in order to make clear how the individuals in question link their current experience of dementia with previous experiences and thereby revise the way they see themselves. Whether this occurs in an erratic, associative manner or in a more structured and connected fashion, there are varied ways in which people with dementia come to an emotional and cognitive appreciation of their life. The main aim of the analysis is not to establish biographical accuracy but rather to identify elements of self-care: a creative act of appropriating one's own life story, and the communicative presentation of a self-image.

根据痴呆症患者关于反思自己生平的积极影响的陈述，本研究考察了生活故事叙事如何帮助患者理解被打乱的现在和以健忘为特征的支离破碎的生活。在这篇论文中，我们分析了痴呆症患者日常生活的口头和书面记录。在这样做的过程中，我们应用了一个基于关键（自动）传记链概念的启发式方法，以便弄清楚有问题的个体如何将他们当前的痴呆症经历与以前的经历联系起来，从而修改他们看待自己的方式。无论这是以一种不稳定的、联想的方式发生，还是以一种更有条理和联系的方式发生，痴呆症患者对自己的生活有不同的情感和认知欣赏方式。分析的主要目的不是建立传记的准确性，而是确定自我照顾的要素：一种挪用自己生活故事的创造性行为，以及自我形象的交流呈现。

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‘I don't like old women’: A longitudinal analysis of older adults' portrayals on the Belgian silver screen (1945–2022) “我不喜欢老女人”：对比利时银幕上老年人形象的纵向分析（1945-2022）

IF 1.9 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101374

Femke De Sutter

Cinema provides a flow of images of older adults, showing us how aging and older adults are constructed in a certain place and time. This study addresses two significant gaps in existing literature on the representation of older adults by (I) focusing on a longitudinal perspective, and (II) examining a small national film context. Using a quantitative content analysis, we examined 133 Belgian fiction films released between 1945 and 2022. The analysis revealed that 13 % of the characters were aged 65 years and above. However, this indicates an underrepresentation of older adults, as they made up an average of 15 % of the general Belgian population over the same period. Findings from our study indicate several key patterns. First, our study revealed an unexpected gender bias, with women aged 65 and above being statistically overrepresented in comparison to men of the same age cohort. Second, this overrepresentation was multifaceted, as older women were frequently typecast into negative stereotypes, routinely portrayed as shrews or cranky older adults. Third, we found a notable lack of diversity in the representations of older adults overall, with characters being predominantly “young-old”, Caucasian, middle-class, non-disabled and heterosexual (if sexuality was addressed at all). Finally, we observed that 64.8 % of the older adults were portrayed according to at least one positive stereotype. The most prevalent positive stereotypes were the golden ager, John Wayne conservative, perfect grandparent, and the sage. Although our analysis spans 77 years, marked by considerable demographic and socio-economic changes, older adults continue to be underrepresented and misrepresented in Belgian fiction films.

电影提供了一系列老年人的形象，向我们展示了衰老和老年人是如何在特定的地点和时间被建构起来的。本研究通过(I)关注纵向视角和（II）考察小型国家电影背景，解决了现有文献中关于老年人代表性的两个重大空白。通过定量内容分析，我们研究了1945年至2022年间上映的133部比利时小说电影。分析显示，13%的人物年龄在65岁及以上。然而，这表明老年人的代表性不足，因为他们在同一时期平均占比利时总人口的15%。我们的研究结果表明了几个关键模式。首先，我们的研究揭示了一种意想不到的性别偏见，65岁及以上的女性在统计上比同年龄段的男性多。其次，这种过度代表是多方面的，因为老年妇女经常被归类为负面的刻板印象，通常被描绘成泼妇或脾气暴躁的老年人。第三，我们发现总体上老年人的表现明显缺乏多样性，角色主要是“年轻-年老”、白种人、中产阶级、非残疾人和异性恋（如果涉及性行为的话）。最后，我们观察到64.8%的老年人至少被描绘成一种积极的刻板印象。最普遍的正面刻板印象是黄金时代、保守的约翰·韦恩、完美的祖父母和圣人。尽管我们的分析跨越了77年，以相当大的人口和社会经济变化为标志，但老年人在比利时小说电影中仍然被低估和歪曲。

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Older LGBTQ+ Canadian adults' perceptions and experiences of dating and intimate partnerships 年长的加拿大LGBTQ+成年人对约会和亲密伙伴关系的看法和经历

IF 1.9 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101376

Laura Hurd, Catherine Tran, Maya Willis-Fry

Romantic relationships are an important source of companionship, intimacy, and social support in later life. To date, few studies have explored how older adults who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and/or members of other gender or sexual minorities (LGBTQ+) perceive and experience dating and/or romantic partnerships. Moreover, the bulk of the extant research has been conducted in the United States, and little is known about older LGBTQ+ Canadians' perceptions and experiences of intimate relationships and their related sense of social inclusion, acceptance, and visibility. To address these gaps in the literature and drawing on queer theory, we conducted 113 hours of in-depth, semi-structured interviews with a diverse group of 30 LGBTQ+ Canadians aged 65 to 83 years (average age of 71). The data were analyzed using descriptive thematic analysis, resulting in the identification of two overarching themes. The first theme, “There have been a lot of changes”, encompassed the participants' accounts of how aging-related physical and health changes had impacted their sex lives and romantic relationship priorities. The second theme, “Coming home to an empty house is very, very difficult” referred to the participants' sense of vulnerability and isolation as they navigated the complexities of older LGBTQ+ intimate relationships. We discuss our findings in relation to the existing research as well as theorizing about queer temporalities, heterosexism, and the diversity and fluidity of sexual experiences in later life. Highlighting the unique needs of older LGBTQ+ persons, we consider the implications of our findings for health and social service professionals.

恋爱关系是日后生活中陪伴、亲密和社会支持的重要来源。迄今为止，很少有研究探讨老年人是女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋、变性人、酷儿和/或其他性别或性少数群体（LGBTQ+）的成员如何看待和体验约会和/或恋爱关系。此外，现有的大部分研究都是在美国进行的，很少有人知道年长的LGBTQ+加拿大人对亲密关系的看法和经历，以及他们对社会包容、接受和可见性的相关意识。为了解决这些文献上的空白，并借鉴酷儿理论，我们对30名年龄在65至83岁（平均年龄71岁）的LGBTQ+加拿大人进行了113小时的深度半结构化访谈。使用描述性专题分析对数据进行了分析，从而确定了两个总体主题。第一个主题是“有很多变化”，参与者讲述了与年龄相关的身体和健康变化如何影响他们的性生活和恋爱关系的优先事项。第二个主题，“回到一个空房子是非常非常困难的”，指的是参与者在处理旧的LGBTQ+亲密关系的复杂性时的脆弱感和孤独感。我们将讨论我们的发现与现有研究的关系，以及关于酷儿暂时性，异性恋，以及晚年性经历的多样性和流动性的理论。为了突出老年LGBTQ+人群的独特需求，我们考虑了我们的研究结果对卫生和社会服务专业人员的影响。

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