Geographically distant societies do not always share the same cultural restrictions; similarly, next generations sometimes abandon old taboos, creating new ones at the same time. One can observe that a new taboo in modern Western societies is elderliness. In traditional societies, considered as a period of life in which experience gathered through the years gave an elderly person the privilege of being the leader of the group, the passer of knowledge and collective memory. Nowadays elderliness is losing this status, in the age of dynamic progress of education and new media (Balard, 2007). Moreover, with the process of eldering of societies, oldness is becoming more banal and is not a value per se, as it used to be before. On the contrary, t...
In recent years, the aging of the population in industrialized countries has become a prominent issu...
Today aging still refers to various theories, and the theoretical diversity seems even to accentuate...
Over the past two centuries, the rapid socio-economic transformations along with substantial advance...
This doctoral thesis combines historical and communication approaches, focusing on how old age is po...
International audienceWhen we talk about old age, what are we talking about? Biological age? Intelle...
As the Western population becomes increasingly older, past definitions and concepts of old age no lo...
Transparent Boundaries is an EU project bringing together partners from the UK, Denmark, Greece and ...
As the population is growing older, sociologists and economists are becoming more interested in anal...
This 'Credo' essay responds to the Contested Terms Forum (Issue 6), exploring why the language used ...
The elderly are currently becoming one of the subjects of a global culture. As a consequence of a su...
International audienceLeaning on a heterogeneous corpus consisting of scienti c writings and various...
Teghe, D ORCiD: 0000-0003-4530-9303Elder people are often portrayed and represented in academic and ...
The ‘aging well’ discourse advances the idea of making older people responsible for their capability...
The ‘aging well’ discourse advances the idea of making older people responsible for their capability...
The ‘aging well’ discourse advances the idea of making older people responsible for their capability...
In recent years, the aging of the population in industrialized countries has become a prominent issu...
Today aging still refers to various theories, and the theoretical diversity seems even to accentuate...
Over the past two centuries, the rapid socio-economic transformations along with substantial advance...
This doctoral thesis combines historical and communication approaches, focusing on how old age is po...
International audienceWhen we talk about old age, what are we talking about? Biological age? Intelle...
As the Western population becomes increasingly older, past definitions and concepts of old age no lo...
Transparent Boundaries is an EU project bringing together partners from the UK, Denmark, Greece and ...
As the population is growing older, sociologists and economists are becoming more interested in anal...
This 'Credo' essay responds to the Contested Terms Forum (Issue 6), exploring why the language used ...
The elderly are currently becoming one of the subjects of a global culture. As a consequence of a su...
International audienceLeaning on a heterogeneous corpus consisting of scienti c writings and various...
Teghe, D ORCiD: 0000-0003-4530-9303Elder people are often portrayed and represented in academic and ...
The ‘aging well’ discourse advances the idea of making older people responsible for their capability...
The ‘aging well’ discourse advances the idea of making older people responsible for their capability...
The ‘aging well’ discourse advances the idea of making older people responsible for their capability...
In recent years, the aging of the population in industrialized countries has become a prominent issu...
Today aging still refers to various theories, and the theoretical diversity seems even to accentuate...
Over the past two centuries, the rapid socio-economic transformations along with substantial advance...