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The Fourth Age in Prospect

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F23%3A10471548" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/23:10471548 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=8iWaXyn-sJ" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=8iWaXyn-sJ</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbad144" target="_blank" >10.1093/geronb/gbad144</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    The Fourth Age in Prospect

  • Original language description

    Objectives have uniquely theorized the fourth age as a &quot;social imaginary&quot; of deep old age that blends notions of frailty, abjection, and the moral relations of care. This report evaluates the coherence and reach of the fourth-age imaginary among older adults in relative good health.Methods In a qualitative design and within samples at 5 sites (in Czechia, Germany, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the United States), 138 adults aged 70+ and still living independently discussed what it would mean to be &quot;not independent&quot; in later life. Replies referenced other people in general, specific people, and one&apos;s own actual or potential experience.Results Pooled across sites, the views of our participants confirm the theorized features of the social imaginary. Participants spoke readily of gateway infirmities heralding frailty and of frailty&apos;s abjection; expressed dread and abhorrence of dependence, some saying that death would be preferable; and were anxious about nursing homes and about burdening others with an obligation to care for them.Discussion The bleak but formidable reputation of the fourth age impinges on those living in the third. The consonant expression of fourth-age features among older adults on 3 continents supports Gilleard and Higgs&apos;s claim that the fourth-age imaginary &quot;contains a universal ontological quality&quot; owing to human corporeality and the senescence to which it is subject. Fourth-age studies that document the lived experience of frailty and dependence have the potential to undermine the imaginary and furnish new narratives for facing the future

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    50401 - Sociology

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Others

  • Publication year

    2023

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

  • ISSN

    1079-5014

  • e-ISSN

    1758-5368

  • Volume of the periodical

    78

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    12

  • Country of publishing house

    US - UNITED STATES

  • Number of pages

    9

  • Pages from-to

    2062-2070

  • UT code for WoS article

    001096334600001

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85180011661