Representations of dementia and their role in social expectations regarding ageing
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F22%3A10444898" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/22:10444898 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=R7xQb.YJWe" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=R7xQb.YJWe</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/soc4.13003" target="_blank" >10.1111/soc4.13003</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Representations of dementia and their role in social expectations regarding ageing
Original language description
This paper reviews existing research on dementia worry and its role in general fears and expectations regarding one's ageing. Understanding older people's knowledge regarding dementia, the way they construct meanings regarding dementia and older age, and their attitudes toward people already experiencing dementia is essential in formulating adequate social and health policy, as well as for our understanding of the experience of ageing (with, without or in addition to dementia). This paper explores dementia as a significant framework for the construction of anxieties regarding advanced old age and also a symbolic reference point for the representations of the third and fourth ages - successful and less successful ageing. We point out a crucial role on the part of dementia in the social images of ageing, not only as a symbolic embodiment of frailty but also as an essential framework through which the distinction between desirable "successful", "active" ageing, and "failed", "horrific" old age is (re)constructed.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA21-16738S" target="_blank" >GA21-16738S: Social life of dementia: cultural representations and subjective attitudes</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Sociology Compass [online]
ISSN
1751-9020
e-ISSN
1751-9020
Volume of the periodical
16
Issue of the periodical within the volume
7
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
e13003
UT code for WoS article
000804172000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85131064988