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Negotiating care and control: Pet euthanasia as phronetic action 协商照顾与控制:宠物安乐死作为语言行动
IF 1.8 3区 社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-08-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101256
Nora Schuurman

The lives and deaths of animals living with humans have become increasingly medicalised, and the life of a pet usually ends with euthanasia conducted by a veterinarian. In this paper, I explore how pet euthanasia is understood as a good death in interactions between vets and pet guardians in veterinary practice, provided as an act of care for old and seriously ill or injured animals. Drawing from interviews with vets in Finland, I discuss the ways in which care and control are negotiated in the decisions and practices concerning pet euthanasia, and their implications on understandings of old age and death in animals. I approach the task of euthanising an animal without a prospect of continuing life in Aristotelian terms as phronesis, as knowledge about the right and appropriate ways to act in a certain situation.

与人类共同生活的动物的生死越来越医疗化,宠物的生命通常以兽医实施的安乐死而结束。在本文中,我将探讨在兽医实践中,宠物安乐死如何在兽医和宠物监护人的互动中被理解为一种美好的死亡,是对年老、重病或受伤动物的一种关爱行为。通过对芬兰兽医的访谈,我讨论了在有关宠物安乐死的决策和实践中,照顾和控制的协商方式,以及它们对动物老年和死亡理解的影响。我从亚里士多德的phronesis角度来探讨对没有继续生存希望的动物实施安乐死的任务,将其视为在特定情况下采取正确和适当行动的知识。
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A qualitative exploration of the lives lived by Irish centenarians 对爱尔兰百岁老人生活的定性研究
IF 1.8 3区 社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101252
Alison Fagan , Lorraine Gaffney , Patricia Heavey , Mary McDonnell Naughton

Centenarians are of particular importance to aging research as they represent the living architype of exceptional longevity and as such studying their attributes is expected to contribute to one's understanding of survivorship. While much centenarian research to date recognizes the biological and genetic determinants in achieving advanced age, there is a lack of understanding regarding the influence of social factors and their role in aging. As centenarian populations continue to grow at an unprecedented rate, the heterogeneity among centenarian cohorts together with current aging trends highlights the intrinsic need to better understand centenarian aging from a biopsychosocial perspective. A key challenge for research concerning centenarians is understanding their personal experiences of reaching this momentous age as such information could help to identify the sociodemographic and psychosocial factors that enable people to live such extraordinarily long lives. To address this, this study focused on the lived experience of Irish centenarians and explored their understanding of their aging in a rapidly modernized sociocultural Ireland. Documenting the psychosocial profiles of centenarians will assist key stakeholders including researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in the development of policies and strategies to support the growing population of older adults in Ireland. Furthermore, this research will also map Irish centenarians who have not previously been explored onto the international nexus of centenarian research.

百岁老人对老龄化研究具有特别重要的意义,因为他们代表着超常长寿的活化石,因此研究他们的特质有望有助于人们对生存能力的了解。虽然迄今为止的许多百岁老人研究都认识到了高龄的生物和遗传决定因素,但对社会因素的影响及其在老龄化中的作用还缺乏了解。随着百岁老人群体继续以前所未有的速度增长,百岁老人群体之间的异质性以及当前的老龄化趋势凸显了从生物-心理-社会角度更好地理解百岁老人老龄化的内在需求。有关百岁老人的研究面临的一个主要挑战是了解他们达到这一重要年龄的个人经历,因为这些信息有助于确定使人们能够如此长寿的社会人口和社会心理因素。为了解决这个问题,本研究重点关注爱尔兰百岁老人的生活经历,探讨他们对在社会文化迅速现代化的爱尔兰步入老年的理解。记录百岁老人的社会心理概况将有助于包括研究人员、从业人员和政策制定者在内的主要利益相关者制定政策和战略,为爱尔兰日益增长的老年人口提供支持。此外,这项研究还将把以前未曾探讨过的爱尔兰百岁老人纳入国际百岁老人研究网络。
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On the limits of communication: The liminal positioning of older adults and processes of self-ageism and ageism. 沟通的极限:老年人的边缘定位以及自我年龄歧视和年龄歧视的过程。
IF 1.8 3区 社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101255
B. Schuurman , W.P. Achterberg , T.A. Abma , J. Lindenberg

Our qualitative study, consisting of in-depth semi-structured interviews with recent retirees in the Dutch city of Leiden, set out to investigate how communication, through processes of self-identification and the negotiation of social identities, relates to (self-)ageism. A letter from the city administration was used to make age identification salient in our research and prompted stories of various liminal spaces and phases that our participants experienced. Whilst liminal phases are usually considered uncertain and ambiguous, in our study we found that for older people liminality can offer a desired ambiguity that allowed them to adopt a more positive identity than ‘being old’, which was rejected as undesirable. Our findings provide insight into the intertwinement of societal, institutional and individual levels of ageism and highlights the necessity of finding and emphasising positive values in being old, since only then positive interpretations of communication can enable processes of positive societal identification.

我们的定性研究包括对荷兰莱顿市近期退休人员进行的半结构式深入访谈,旨在探讨交流如何通过自我认同和社会身份的协商过程与(自我)年龄歧视发生联系。在研究中,我们使用了一封来自城市管理部门的信来突出年龄认同,并促使参与者讲述他们所经历的各种边缘空间和阶段。虽然边缘阶段通常被认为是不确定和模棱两可的,但在我们的研究中,我们发现对于老年人来说,边缘性可以提供一种理想的模棱两可,使他们能够采用比 "变老 "更积极的身份,而 "变老 "则被认为是不可取的。我们的研究结果让我们深入了解了老龄歧视在社会、机构和个人层面的相互交织,并强调了发现和强调 "老 "的积极价值的必要性,因为只有这样,对交流的积极解释才能促成积极的社会认同过程。
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Towards care-full co-design with older adults: A feminist posthuman praxis 与老年人共同设计,实现全面关爱:女性主义后人类实践
IF 1.8 3区 社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-08-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101250
Helen Manchester , Alice Willatt

Gerontechnology design is often rooted in deficit imaginaries of frail ageing bodies, with little consideration given to the sociomateriality of older adults' everyday lives, as shaped by complex social, political, historical and cultural forces. While co-design approaches have gone some way in supporting the participation of older adults, little attention has been given to how design processes can be responsive to the more-than-human lived materialities of older adults' everyday lives. More generally, there is also a need for deeper ethical engagement with the more-than-human assemblages that shape the politics and practices of co-design. In response, this article sketches out a feminist posthuman praxis of care-full co-design, grounding it in our work co-designing digital cultural experiences with older adults who live along multiple axes of inequality. Drawing on the radically deconstructive and reconstructive commitments of posthuman feminism, the discussion tentatively presents three interconnected threads of care-full co-design. These threads explore our attempts to design in the ‘thick present’, ground design in older adults' more-than-human everyday lives, and negotiate care-full (re)arrangements in the collective doing of design. The threads call for response-ability to expansive timescales and structural injustices, and to the situated knowledges and multi-sensual lifeworlds of older adults. Design is understood as an emergent process of attentive experimentation and adjustment in a bid to find a suitable arrangement of bodies, knowledges, technologies, emotions, languages, design sites and objects. We focus on particular practice-ings, tensions and challenges that emerged as we negotiated our care-full praxis.

老年技术设计往往植根于对虚弱老龄化身体的缺陷想象,很少考虑到老年人日常生活的社会物质性,而这种物质性是由复杂的社会、政治、历史和文化力量形成的。虽然共同设计方法在一定程度上支持了老年人的参与,但很少有人关注设计过程如何对老年人日常生活中的非人类物质生活作出反应。从更广泛的意义上讲,我们还需要从伦理的角度更深入地探讨形成共同设计的政治和实践的超人类组合。作为回应,本文勾勒了一种女性主义的 "充分关爱 "共同设计的后人类实践,将其建立在我们与生活在多重不平等轴线上的老年人共同设计数字文化体验的工作基础之上。讨论借鉴了后人类女性主义的彻底解构和重构承诺,初步提出了充分关爱共同设计的三条相互关联的主线。这些主线探讨了我们在 "厚重的当下 "进行设计的尝试,将设计植根于老年人超越人类的日常生活中,并在集体进行设计的过程中协商全护理(重新)安排。这些主线要求我们能够对广阔的时间尺度和结构性不公正做出反应,并对老年人的情景知识和多感性生活世界做出反应。设计被理解为一个不断涌现的试验和调整过程,目的是找到身体、知识、技术、情感、语言、设计场所和物品的适当安排。我们重点关注在我们的全护理实践中出现的特殊实践、紧张关系和挑战。
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Advice for dementia carers: A critique of the literature 为痴呆症照护者提供建议:文献评论
IF 1.8 3区 社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-08-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101251
Emily K. Abel

Although hundreds of advice manuals for dementia carers have been published, most have serious limitations. They emphasize the various problems family members experience without noting the social and political context within which caring unfolds. As a result, they eschew structural reforms in favor of individual solutions, including self-care. The manuals also encourage carers to detach emotionally from people with dementia by viewing them in terms of their disease. In addition, the books hew so closely to the medical model of dementia that they ignore newer perspectives. Narratives by people with dementia provide a critical corrective. Those works argue that the disproportionate attention directed toward carers has eclipsed the perspective of people with dementia, that people remain individuals despite a dementia diagnosis, that issues of stigma and discrimination shape the experience of living with dementia, that more emphasis should be placed on promoting the autonomy of people with dementia, that they are entitled to reasonable accommodations, and that they should have more opportunities for growth.

I have reviewed the policies detailed in the guide and have no competing interests.

尽管针对痴呆症照护者的建议手册已经出版了数百种,但大多数都存在严重的局限性。它们只强调家庭成员遇到的各种问题,却没有注意到护理工作开展的社会和政治背景。因此,它们回避了结构性改革,而倾向于个人解决方案,包括自我护理。这些手册还鼓励照护者从疾病的角度来看待痴呆症患者,从而在情感上脱离他们。此外,这些书籍过于拘泥于痴呆症的医学模式,而忽略了新的视角。痴呆症患者的叙述提供了一种批判性的纠正。这些作品认为,对照护者的过度关注使痴呆症患者的视角黯然失色,尽管被诊断出患有痴呆症,但他们仍然是独立的个体,污名化和歧视问题决定了痴呆症患者的生活体验,应该更加重视促进痴呆症患者的自主性,他们有权获得合理的便利,他们应该有更多的成长机会。
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The eight-legged confidant: Narrativizing octopuses and non-human aging 八条腿的知己章鱼和非人类衰老的叙事化
IF 1.8 3区 社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-08-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101249
Ruth Gehrmann

This article follows an increased interest in the octopus in both popular science and fiction. Octopuses have long held fascination and are commonly tied to processes of aging: Even though their life expectancy tends to be lower than that of humans, they are often framed as “old”, not only by appearing as mythical creatures from an unknown past but also by appearing wise and intelligent. Whereas the octopus has been framed as Other, prominently by inspiring the aesthetics of alien life forms, recent examples have underlined the possibility of inter-species contact and communication. This article traces these moments of contact and investigates the role of aging in such fictional encounters. By focusing on two recent examples, Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures (2022) and Gina Chung's Sea Change (2023), it illustrates the ways that contemporary fiction narratively links the octopus to older age and discusses forms of non-human aging.

这篇文章是继科普读物和小说中对章鱼越来越感兴趣之后发表的。章鱼的魅力由来已久,而且通常与衰老过程联系在一起:尽管章鱼的预期寿命往往低于人类,但它们经常被塑造成 "老 "的形象,这不仅是因为它们是来自未知过去的神话生物,还因为它们显得睿智和聪明。章鱼一直被定格为 "他者",主要是通过激发外星生命形式的美感,而最近的例子则强调了物种间接触和交流的可能性。本文追溯了这些接触的瞬间,并研究了衰老在此类虚构接触中的作用。通过聚焦最近的两个例子--谢尔比-范-佩尔特的《异常明亮的生物》(2022 年)和吉娜-钟的《海变》(2023 年)--说明当代小说如何在叙事上将章鱼与老年联系起来,并讨论非人类衰老的形式。
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Animal companionship and psycho-social well-being: Findings from a national study of community-dwelling aging Canadians 动物陪伴与社会心理健康:一项针对居住在社区的加拿大老年人的全国性研究结果
IF 1.8 3区 社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-07-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101247
Betty Jo Barrett , Amy Fitzgerald , Huda Al-Wahsh , Mohamad Musa

A growing body of evidence has provided support for the beneficial impact of human-animal interactions on a range of biological, social, and psychological outcomes for humans; however, less is conclusively known about the association between animal companionship and psycho-social health specifically among aging populations. In this study, we assessed the association between animal companionship and psycho-social well-being in a large sample (N = 30,865) of community dwelling Canadians aged 45 and older. Using cross-sectional data from the Canadian Community Health Survey-Healthy Aging, we conducted hierarchical multiple regression to assess the relationship between animal companionship and four domains of psycho-social well-being (satisfaction with life, loneliness, depression, and levels of social support) after controlling for socio-demographic factors and psycho-social measures. Results indicate that those with animal companionship report significantly higher levels of social support than aging Canadians without animal companionship; however, animal companionship was also associated with significantly lower levels of life satisfaction and higher levels of both loneliness and depression. These findings complicate the existing literature on human-animal interactions by suggesting the benefits associated with animal companionship may vary across distinct domains of psycho-social health. As such, results from this study highlight the need for more nuanced model specifications when assessing the relationship between animal companionship and psycho-social well-being. Implications of these findings for the provision of social services to older adults with pets are provided.

越来越多的证据表明,人与动物的互动对人类的一系列生理、社会和心理结果都有有益的影响;然而,人们对动物陪伴与社会心理健康之间的关系,尤其是老龄人口之间的关系却知之甚少。在这项研究中,我们对45岁及以上居住在社区的加拿大人中的一个大样本(N = 30,865)进行了动物陪伴与社会心理健康之间关系的评估。利用《加拿大社区健康调查--健康老龄化》(Canadian Community Health Survey-Healthy Aging)的横截面数据,我们进行了分层多元回归,以评估在控制了社会人口因素和社会心理测量后,动物陪伴与社会心理健康四个领域(生活满意度、孤独感、抑郁和社会支持水平)之间的关系。结果表明,与没有动物陪伴的加拿大老年人相比,有动物陪伴的加拿大老年人的社会支持水平明显更高;但是,动物陪伴也与生活满意度明显较低、孤独感和抑郁水平较高有关。这些发现使现有关于人与动物互动的文献变得更加复杂,因为它们表明,在不同的社会心理健康领域,与动物陪伴相关的益处可能会有所不同。因此,本研究的结果突出表明,在评估动物陪伴与社会心理健康之间的关系时,需要更细致的模型规范。这些研究结果对于为养宠物的老年人提供社会服务具有重要意义。
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Industry visions of technology for older adults: A futures anthropology perspective 行业对老年人技术的愿景:未来人类学视角
IF 1.8 3区 社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-07-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101248
Miguel Gomez-Hernandez

The negative portrayal of ageing as a human decline burdening society has prompted Ageing Technology industries (AgeTech) to foresee solutions rooted in the Ageing in Place paradigm. These ostensibly neutral future interventions are intertwined with socio-technical dynamics. While Science and Technology Studies (STS) and anthropology scholars have questioned these AgeTech practices, limited literature explores industry's predictions of future AgeTech.

Drawing on STS and futures-anthropology literature, I interrogate AgeTech industry visions of future assemblages involving older people, smart home technology, and socio-material discourses rooted in their own discrepancies and dilemmas. To unpack AgeTech futures, my methods include a review of 49 industry reports and 29 interviews with industry experts. Based on the reports, I designed comics to be used in interviews with experts spanning CEOs and managers of companies designing technology for older people, consultants, and aged-care workers based in 12 countries.

Ageing futures are far from being neutral or a chronological process, instead they are non-consensual and fragmented. In the review and interviews, I captured future assemblages of a fragmented AgeTech industry in relationships with governments and industry giants. The fragmentation continues unfolding in participants from diverse countries and professions contesting dominant AgeTech narratives. In dissecting future assemblages, I also unpack non-consensual futures based on diverging experts' values (e.g. safety versus activity) and humans' values like control and improvisation challenging predictive and surveillance technology.

AgeTech Futures transcend physical matters or assemblages of technologies and humans. They encompass future normativities, tensions, divergent values, and ideological concepts. I propose not only alternatives to the visions found in industry narratives, but also encourage scholars to understand the AgeTech industry's dilemmas.

对老龄化的负面描述是人类衰退给社会带来的负担,这促使老龄化技术产业(AgeTech)预见到根植于 "居家养老 "范式的解决方案。这些表面上中立的未来干预措施与社会技术动态交织在一起。借鉴科技研究(STS)和未来人类学的文献,我探讨了老龄科技行业对未来的愿景,包括老年人、智能家居技术以及植根于自身差异和困境的社会物质话语。为了解读 AgeTech 的未来,我采用的方法包括对 49 份行业报告的回顾和对 29 位行业专家的访谈。在这些报告的基础上,我设计了漫画,用于与 12 个国家的专家进行访谈,访谈对象包括为老年人设计技术的公司首席执行官和经理、顾问和老年护理工作者。在回顾和访谈中,我捕捉到了与政府和行业巨头关系中的碎片化 AgeTech 行业的未来组合。来自不同国家和专业的参与者对主流的 AgeTech 叙事提出了质疑,这种碎片化仍在继续展开。在剖析未来组合时,我还解读了基于不同专家价值观(如安全与活动)和人类价值观(如控制和即兴挑战预测和监控技术)的非共识未来。它们包括未来的规范性、紧张关系、不同的价值观和意识形态概念。我不仅提出了行业叙事中的愿景的替代方案,还鼓励学者们理解 AgeTech 行业的困境。
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Outdated and re-configured: Challenging linear conceptualizations of ageing through the case of revived obsolete technologies 过时和重新配置:通过过时技术的复兴案例挑战老龄化的线性概念化
IF 2.3 3区 社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-06-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101246
Cristina Ghita

Taking as a starting point the conventional view of ageing as a linear process beginning in a youthful and productive stage but gradually deteriorating, this paper shifts the usual anthropocentric focal point towards technological artifacts which do not conform to this typical view. More specifically, three examples of technologies previously considered obsolete, but which have seen a revival in the last decade, are presented: the so-called dumbphones, analogue cameras, and vinyl players. Although very different at first glance, the three cases of these revived technologies show a similar evolution trajectory which breaks from the typical view of ageing in technological artifacts. Instead, they indicate how their revival does not simply entail a reconsideration of their initial value (such as it is often the case with antiques or heirlooms), but a transformation, hybridisation, and re-envisioned purpose.

To this effect, the agential realism theory is applied to show how the revival of technological artifacts and practices once considered outdated attempts to dissolve binaries such as old/new, young/old, or slow/fast. Furthermore, such artifacts reveal trajectories of ageing that are unlike their human counterparts, but which can make way for new manners of articulating issues pertaining to ageing as a process in humans as well.

The contribution of the paper lies in illustrating how adopting a non-linear view of ageing and fundamentally questioning its inherent binaries has the capacity to produce a much-needed nuanced view of ageing in humans, non-humans, and their sociomaterial entanglements.

传统观点认为,老龄化是一个线性过程,从年轻多产的阶段开始,然后逐渐衰退,本文以这一观点为出发点,将通常以人类为中心的焦点转移到不符合这一典型观点的技术产品上。更具体地说,本文列举了三个以前被认为是过时的技术,但在过去十年中却出现了复兴:所谓的傻瓜电话、模拟照相机和黑胶播放器。虽然乍看之下大相径庭,但这三个复兴技术的案例却显示出相似的演变轨迹,打破了人们对技术产品老化的典型看法。为此,我们运用了代理现实主义理论来说明曾被视为过时的技术工艺品和实践的复兴是如何试图消解二元对立(如旧/新、年轻/年老或慢/快)的。本文的贡献在于说明了采用非线性的老龄化观点并从根本上质疑其固有的二元对立是如何产生一种亟需的关于人类、非人类及其社会物质纠葛中的老龄化的细致入微的观点的。
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Visual and material representations of ageing, space and rhythms in everyday life 日常生活中有关老龄化、空间和节奏的视觉和物质表征
IF 2.3 3区 社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-06-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101231
Wendy Martin , Katy Pilcher

A focus on the materiality within ageing studies brings into focus the material dimensions of space, rhythms and material objects in everyday life. The aim of this paper is to explore meanings around space in the context of the daily lives of people growing older and how materiality is embodied, embedded and performed in the material and social context of our everyday lives. The paper draws on data from the empirical research study Photographing Everyday Life: Ageing, Lived Experiences, Time and Space funded by the ESRC, UK. The focus of the project was to explore the significance of the ordinary and day-to-day and focus on the everyday meanings, lived experiences, practical activities, and social contexts in which people in mid-to-later life live their daily lives. The research involved a diverse sample of 62 women and men aged 50 years and over who took photographs of their different daily routines to create a weekly visual diary. The data reveals three interconnecting whilst analytically distinct themes within the materiality of ageing and the spaces around everyday life: (1) Space, materiality and everyday life; (2) Rhythms, routines and materiality; and (3) Social and material connectivity. The paper concludes by highlighting a complex engagement with space, in which participants drew and re-drew boundaries surrounding meanings of space, sometimes within the same interview or even within a discussion of the same photograph. Moreover, a focus on materiality has elicited rich and illuminating accounts of how people in mid-to-later life experience the intersections between ageing, bodies, time and space in their everyday lives.

老龄化研究中对物质性的关注,使人们开始关注日常生活中空间、节奏和物质对象的物质层面。本文旨在探讨老年人日常生活中的空间意义,以及物质性如何在我们日常生活的物质和社会环境中体现、嵌入和表现。本文借鉴了 "拍摄日常生活 "实证研究的数据:老龄化、生活经历、时间和空间 "的实证研究数据。该项目的重点是探索平凡和日常的意义,关注中老年人日常生活的日常意义、生活经验、实践活动和社会背景。这项研究涉及 62 位 50 岁及以上的女性和男性,他们拍摄了不同日常生活的照片,以制作每周视觉日记。数据揭示了老龄化的物质性和日常生活空间中三个相互关联但分析上截然不同的主题:(1) 空间、物质性和日常生活;(2) 节奏、例行公事和物质性;(3) 社会和物质联系。本文最后强调了与空间的复杂关系,在这种关系中,参与者围绕空间的含义划定并重新划定边界,有时是在同一次访谈中,甚至是在对同一张照片的讨论中。此外,通过对物质性的关注,我们还了解到中晚年生活者如何在日常生活中体验老龄化、身体、时间和空间之间的交集。
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