Journal Article

Ageing Studies and Its Scope in Health Humanities

Hema, S

2024

Overview

Age is a cultural entity like race, class, and gender that must be explored deeply. The increase in the aged population all over the world by 2050 will promote serious inquiry in the field of gerontology. The issues of the aged, like ageism, old age abuse, and negative age stereotypes, need age appropriateness, the individual: physical and psychological and the social, political, and economic aspects of ageing need to be analysed to understand the phenomenon comprehensively. This study must be promoted in the postmodern, industrial, and globalised world. The central focus gerontologists and gerontological theories insist on is successful, positive, and happy ageing. Gerontological ideas review the place of older people in society, reinvent positive images of ageing, and stand for perpetuating the images. Many gerontological inquiries conclude that an individual's ageing experience is influenced by society's standards and attitude towards older people. Literature is taken as a resource to comprehend the individual experience of ageing. Gerontologists suggest attaching some goals during the later stage to gain a positive outlook on the last stage of life. This will promote successful ageing. The paper tries to explain the scope of ageing studies in the literature, identifying literary gerontology as a promising field in health sciences that will delve deep into age and ageing, and satisfy the ideals mentioned earlier.

• Publisher: St. Teresa’s College (Autonomous) Ernakulam
• Subject: Age discrimination / Aging / Attitudes / Culture / Gerontology / Humanities / Literary criticism / Narratives / Novels / Older people / Postmodernism / Psychoanalysis / Senescence / Spark, Muriel (1918-2006) / Stereotypes