Transitions in Old Age : The Meanings of Body from the Perspective of Older Adults with Acquired Impairment

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://sreview.soc.cas.cz/pdfs/csr/2021/03/03.pdf" target="_blank" >https://sreview.soc.cas.cz/pdfs/csr/2021/03/03.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/csr.2020.032" target="_blank" >10.13060/csr.2020.032</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Transitions in Old Age : The Meanings of Body from the Perspective of Older Adults with Acquired Impairment

Original language description

This paper summarises the knowledge about transition from the third age to what is called the fourth age. The study understands ageing as an embodied process and explores the meanings that are attached to the body in the narratives of older persons who have acquired impairment in later life and are receiving care. Because the onset of impairment and infirmity marks a point of transition, the study considers the bodily aspects of the ageing process as key elements, despite this being highly problematic in current social gerontology. The authors call for a complex approach to understanding the meanings of the body in the transitions into old age and drawing on their own study based on three repeated interviews with ten older adults conducted over the course of one year (8 women, mean age = 83.8 years), they explore the meanings that are attached to the body in the context of receiving care. Their analysis of the personal accounts and narratives of everyday activities from the participants in their study revealed that embodiment in action is the main topic through which participants experienced their everydayness. The meanings of embodiment in action are shaped and reconstructed on three dimensions that capture important processes of embodiment in action: the sensing of the body (the Body as an Organiser of Activities), anticipation of the body (the Body as an Uncertain Companion), and the managing of the body (the Body as Work to Be Done). The findings offer insights into the processes of transitions in old age, in which the emotional, social, and behavioural aspects of embodiment in action, rather than age, play the key role. The study further highlights that the meanings of the body are complex, highly relevant, and should not be overlooked within the organisational practice of social and health care.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - 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

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA15-03156S" target="_blank" >GA15-03156S: The fourth age: the identity of disability during the period of active aging</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Sociologický časopis

ISSN

0038-0288

e-ISSN

2336-128X

Volume of the periodical

57

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

28

Pages from-to

315-342

UT code for WoS article

000686556200003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85114088593