Keeping disease at arm's length: how older Danish people distance disease through active ageing
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Keeping disease at arm's length : how older Danish people distance disease through active ageing. / Lassen, Aske Juul.
I: Ageing & Society, Bind 35, Nr. 7, 08.2015, s. 1364-1383.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Keeping disease at arm's length
T2 - how older Danish people distance disease through active ageing
AU - Lassen, Aske Juul
PY - 2015/8
Y1 - 2015/8
N2 - Many older people live with a range of chronic diseases. However, these diseasesdo not necessarily impede an active lifestyle. In this article the author analyses the relation between the active ageing discourse and the way older people at two Danish activity centres handle disease. How does active ageing change everyday life with chronic disease, and how do older people combine an active life with a range of chronic diseases? The participants in the study use activities to keep their diseases at arm’s length, and this distancing of disease at the same time enables them to engage in social and physical activities at the activity centre. In this way, keeping disease at arm’s length is analysed as an ambiguous health strategy. The article shows the importance of looking into how active ageing is practised, as active ageing seems to work well in the everyday life of the older people by not giving emphasis to disease. The article is based on ethnographic fieldwork and uses vignettes of four participants to show how they each keep diseases at arm’s length.
AB - Many older people live with a range of chronic diseases. However, these diseasesdo not necessarily impede an active lifestyle. In this article the author analyses the relation between the active ageing discourse and the way older people at two Danish activity centres handle disease. How does active ageing change everyday life with chronic disease, and how do older people combine an active life with a range of chronic diseases? The participants in the study use activities to keep their diseases at arm’s length, and this distancing of disease at the same time enables them to engage in social and physical activities at the activity centre. In this way, keeping disease at arm’s length is analysed as an ambiguous health strategy. The article shows the importance of looking into how active ageing is practised, as active ageing seems to work well in the everyday life of the older people by not giving emphasis to disease. The article is based on ethnographic fieldwork and uses vignettes of four participants to show how they each keep diseases at arm’s length.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Gerontologi
U2 - 10.1017/S0144686X14000245
DO - 10.1017/S0144686X14000245
M3 - Journal article
VL - 35
SP - 1364
EP - 1383
JO - Ageing & Society
JF - Ageing & Society
SN - 0144-686X
IS - 7
ER -
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