Pub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-05-02DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101331
José de São José , Virpi Timonen
Age is omnipresent in our lives and a fundamental element in the organisation of human societies. Age relations, like other power relations, generate social inequality. As a reflection of its importance, age is frequently used in empirical studies in the field of sociology and other social sciences. However, the social theorisation of age is inchoate and dispersed, compromising empirical research on this topic. This article critically analyses relevant conceptual work on age carried out so far in social sciences, proposes a conceptual framework inspired by sociological theory that integrates and expands this work, and provides a set of propositions on age. This framework provides a multilevel perspective on age, mapping the sociocultural structures in which age is embedded and exerts its influence, as well as the dynamics that are established between them, allowing for an analysis of the relationship between age-based structures and age-related practices. Furthermore, this more comprehensive framework includes relevant constructs that have rarely been considered. It is expected that this article will encourage more conceptually informed use of age in empirical research.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-04-05DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101327
Pnina Dolberg , Sagit Lev
The number of older migrants is steadily increasing in immigration-receiving countries. Studies show that older immigrants tend to be vulnerable to poverty, health problems, and mental distress. They often face barriers when seeking formal assistance and rely on informal support from family and community members. The present study aims to explore the experiences and perceptions of older immigrants regarding the support resources available to them as they navigate the challenges of their multifaceted needs in their host country.
The study involved in-depth interviews with 21 older immigrants (ages 74–96) from the former Soviet Union (FSU) who migrated to Israel at ages 43–65. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed using content analysis. Three categories of support resources emerged: (1) Family: participants attached great importance to family members' support and relationships, maintained connections with relatives abroad, and emphasized the reciprocal nature of family support; (2) Community: support came from friends and neighbors, long-distance relationships with old friends, and ethnic or local immigrant communities, including those formed in assisted living settings; (3) State authorities: participants expressed mixed perceptions about formal assistance, including both appreciation and discomfort. The findings are discussed in light of social exchange theory and intersectionality theory, highlighting the agency and resilience of older immigrants, despite their position at the intersection of age, migration status, and cultural marginalization.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-04-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101325
Juanjuan Ren , Mingxin Yao
While previous research has discussed representations of and solutions to ageism and aging anxiety, it remains unknown whether Chinese young women's calling and being called “old aunties” [lǎo ā yí] can be related to ageism and aging anxiety. Based on collected Weibo data, we examined the generalized use of this kinship term on social media using discourse analysis and found that it is predominantly self-addressing and secondarily other-addressing in usage and that the addressees are primarily young women in their twenties and thirties. We proposed that they construct a false identity of old aunties for jocular self-mockery or provocative teasing. We also argue (1) that young women's being called “old aunties” suggests that addressers consider old age as undesirable and negative and that ageism still exists among young Weibo users; (2) that young women's calling themselves “old aunties” for jocular self-mockery indicates that they might have aging anxiety and using this address term to resist aging anxiety and social pressures, or that they may hold positive attitudes toward old age and feel comfortable in expressing their own preferences and positive evaluations on aging and old age. The study may contribute to the cultural gerontology research by using discourse analysis to provide discursive evidence of constructing a false identity of older people in digital communication, and help broaden the research scope of kinship term generalization and identity construction worldwide.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-05-13DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101332
Milad Olfat
As the older adult population continues to grow and modern lifestyles evolve, many older adults encounter challenges in adapting to contemporary homes or transitioning to new living environments. Factors such as loneliness, diminished physical capabilities, and relocation to institutional care settings further exacerbate these difficulties. Designing supportive environments that cater to the psychological needs of older adults can enhance their sense of place attachment, comfort, and overall well-being. This paper aims to present a comprehensive bibliometric review of the existing body of research on the meaning of home, addressing knowledge gaps related to the psychological needs of older adults. The study is based on the analysis of 678 English-language articles indexed in the Scopus database, published between 1969 and 2023. Data were analyzed using VOS Viewer 1.6.20 software, and the PRISMA checklist was employed to ensure accuracy in bibliometric reporting. The findings indicate that research on this topic has predominantly developed around five main domains: “Transactional Processes with the Environment and Factors Affecting Health and Well-being,” “Resilience and Vulnerability in Living Environments,” “Older Adults Care and Welfare Services,” “Architectural Design Principles for Care Environments and Aging Equipment,” and “Independent Living and Modern Technologies.” Nevertheless, expanding the scope to include non-English studies from diverse geographical contexts is expected to contribute to a more comprehensive framework for defining the meaning of home for older adult individuals across different cultures.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101330
R.D.J. Golbach , N. Kleinenberg-Talsma , H. Jager-Wittenaar , J.S.M. Hobbelen , E.J. Finnema
As the population ages, the proportion of frail older people is also increasing. While attention to frailty experiences has increased, how these account to a comprehensive understanding of frailty and its impact on behavior and functioning remains understudied. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to understand how frailty is experienced, and how frailty and frailty experiences affect behavior and functioning from the perspectives of Dutch community-dwelling older people. In this phenomenological qualitative study, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 36 community-dwelling older people (≥65 years). The ‘Tilburg Frailty Indicator’ was administered to measure frailty, 15 of the participants were considered frail. Thematic analysis revealed the following themes and subthemes: 1) frailty experiences: situation related, initiated internally, initiated externally, and being and feeling frail; 2) coping: cognitive efforts, behavioral efforts, and emotional aspects. The distinction between being frail and feeling frail was, among other things, reflected in the temporality of frailty experiences, such as short periods of moments in time experiencing frailty. Personal factors and contexts strongly influence an individual's experiences and multiple coping strategies were discovered, with mindset shaping individual coping strategies. We recommend a personalized approach in which the experiences and capabilities of older people are considered to support them in maintaining or enhancing their well-being.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-01-24DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101310
Ka-yi Fung , Wing-sun Chan
This study addresses the social care issue of supporting older adults' informal caregivers at the community level. It assesses how community café initiatives, particularly the Carer Café project by the Hong Kong Federation of Women's Centres (HKFWC), develop support networks and enable access to embedded social capital. Utilizing the organizational brokerage model, this research analyzes the network characteristics formed around informal caregivers within the café. This qualitative study employs individual in-depth interviews, focus groups, and observations to collect data. We interviewed 26 informants and observed the operation of five Carer Cafés. Key findings indicate that support networks are deeply integrated with the organization's norms, influencing social interactions in terms of frequency, duration, outward focus, and collaboration. Caregivers benefit from various forms of social capital derived from the Carer Café's networks, which provide enduring support beyond the café setting. While the support networks have extended to the community, they remain embedded in the organization. This embeddedness helps staff take note of caregivers' situations and facilitates the flow of assistance from organizations to caregivers. The study highlights the importance of organizational embeddedness in shaping support networks, offering insights for improving caregiver services and informing policy development.
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With the expansion of low-income urban areas in low and middle-income countries (LMIC), the recognition of leisure opportunities for older women remains under-researched. This study uses a mobility framework to explore access to leisure for older adults in a low-income neighbourhood in Bengaluru, India.
Research design and methods
This ethnographic study included participant observations, 33 in-depth interviews with older adults, and key informants, supplemented by archival research to explore leisure mobility. The paper specifically focuses on a religious tour through rural Tamil Nadu, India, which the primary researcher undertook with a group of older women from one of Bengaluru's oldest low-income neighbourhoods.
Results
We found that community mobilities, such as the annual religious tours, enabled older women to temporarily escape urban hardships and offered them a phase of agency to plan their travel and leisure. Everyday mobility opportunities for travel unrelated to work were often not age-friendly or accessible. The religious tour on the rented bus became a theatre of devotion, a platform for performing spirituality, and a safe environment to sing, dance, and enjoy commensality.
Discussion and implications
The study contributes to the literature on how the social lives of economically disadvantaged older women are constrained by local cultural norms and limited opportunities for mobility. The religious tour, along with the process of organising and carrying it out, can be seen as an act of resilience by older women. Policies promoting inclusive ageing and transport infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries must be attuned to forms of mobility that do not neatly fit into categories such as leisure, social, spiritual, or religious.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-01-07DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101301
Jordan Orbe , Michiko Iwasaki , Anthony Isacco , Carolyn McNamara Barry , Molly Quigley , John Dimoff
Aging in the priesthood presents unique challenges in America. Due to the declining number of priests serving the growing U.S. Catholic population, many older priests delay retirement and continue to work while dealing with various physical, mental, and emotional challenges associated with aging. The present study examined predictors of life satisfaction in aging priests, using a combination of established predictors (age, spiritual transcendence, overall health) and three novel predictors corresponding to the three domains of gerotranscendence (cosmic, coherence, solitude) set out by Tornstam (1989, 2005). Survey data collected from 201 ordained Roman Catholic senior priests (between ages 50–93) revealed high levels of life satisfaction and satisfaction that was positively correlated with age, spiritual transcendence, and self-rated health. In addition, the combination of gerotranscendence predictors explained a statistically significant amount of the variance in life satisfaction, even when controlling for age, spiritual transcendence, and overall health. The coherence domain of gerotranscendence outperformed all other predictors in our model, suggesting that this may be an especially salient predictor of life satisfaction in aging priests. The present study lends support to the application of gerotranscendence when examining the wellbeing of older priests. Interventions aimed at fostering gerotranscendence appear crucial for enhancing priests' life satisfaction throughout their lives.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-01-06DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101307
Verónica Vizcaíno
The aging experiences of non-heterosexual women are frequently overlooked and undervalued in contemporary society. Consequently, the prevailing perception of middle-aged women predominantly revolves around their roles as heterosexual partners or mothers. As a result, some homosexual women may feel compelled to conceal their sexual orientation, only revealing their identity later in life as they age. Researchers are increasingly moving beyond simplistic notions of aging and adopting an intersectional approach to explore the complex relationship between aging, gender, and sexuality, enabling a deeper understanding of the intricate dynamics of social division and identity (Almack et al., 2020). However, the majority of women's aging narratives primarily assume heterosexuality, creating a significant research gap and hindering our understanding of how patterns of successful aging may diverge among lesbian adults (Cruikshank, 2013; Van Wagenen et al., 2013).
This paper explores the intersection of sexuality, gender, and aging in homosexual women through an analysis of three short stories by the prominent Scottish writer Jackie Kay: “Physics and Chemistry” (2002), “Grace and Rose” (2012), and “The First Lady of Song” (2012). These stories contemplate the aging journey as a challenging but liberating process, where five protagonists embrace their sexual orientation in their middle age, boldly claiming their place in a society that excludes them. Framed within the interdisciplinary field of aging studies, this paper offers an intersectional analysis of these three fictional narratives. By delving into these stories, the study aims to deepen our comprehension of the challenges homosexual women face as they navigate the aging process, underscoring the need for a greater recognition of their experiences.
非异性恋女性的衰老经历在当代社会经常被忽视和低估。因此，对中年妇女的普遍看法主要围绕着她们作为异性伴侣或母亲的角色展开。因此，一些女同性恋者可能会被迫隐瞒自己的性取向，只有当她们变老时才会暴露自己的身份。研究人员越来越多地超越简单的老龄化概念，采用交叉方法探索老龄化、性别和性行为之间的复杂关系，从而更深入地了解社会分裂和身份的复杂动态（Almack et al., 2020）。然而，大多数女性的衰老叙事主要假设是异性恋，这造成了一个重大的研究空白，阻碍了我们对女同性恋成年人成功衰老模式的理解(Cruikshank, 2013；Van Wagenen et al., 2013)。本文通过对苏格兰著名作家杰基·凯的三篇短篇小说《物理与化学》（2002）、《格蕾丝与玫瑰》（2012）和《第一夫人之歌》（2012）的分析，探讨了同性恋女性在性、性别和衰老方面的交集。在这些故事中，五个主人公在中年时接受了自己的性取向，大胆地在一个排斥他们的社会中主张自己的地位，把衰老的旅程看作是一个充满挑战但又解放的过程。在老龄化研究的跨学科领域内，本文对这三种虚构的叙事进行了交叉分析。通过深入研究这些故事，这项研究旨在加深我们对同性恋女性在衰老过程中面临的挑战的理解，强调有必要更多地认识到她们的经历。
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Pub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-01-11DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101308
Eric Gagnon , Romane Marcotte
For many years, there has been a great deal of discussion about “personhood” in healthcare, particularly in long-term care. Intervention programs are designed to be person-centered. The quality of care and services is measured in terms of respect for the person. But what exactly does this concept mean? Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in long-term care facilities, we will examine four main meanings given by the caregivers and the residents to the word of personhood (the autonomous person, the vulnerable person, the unique person, and the good person) and how these meanings are expressed in behaviors and care. More specifically, we will focus on how the idea of personhood brings together broader values and its ethical dimensions. The goal of this study is to contribute to the understanding of the concept of personhood in contemporary western societies.
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