‘My Body Feels Old’: Seniors’ Discursive Constructions of Aging-as-Disabling

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2016

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University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies

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Social gerontology and disability studies have made similar but separate arguments for ways to study aging and disability, respectively. This study of interviews with seniors finds that seniors characterize aging as disabling and position both identity constructions as negative. The article argues for the use of disability theory and discourse to examine seniors’ lived experiences.

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phenomenology, lived experience, discourse

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Teems, Y. R. (2016). ‘My Body Feels Old’: Seniors’ Discursive Constructions of Aging-as-Disabling. Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 12(2 & 3).

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