Age assemblages : Sociotechnical innovations and successful age(ing) from the perspective of material gerontology

DISCUSSION: It is shown how an expansion of gerontology towards more than human worlds of age(ing) can be conceived. The focus is on (1) a decentralization of age(ing) towards "age assemblages", (2) a broadening of the individual human to a distributed more than human agency and, as a result, (3) a shift in the boundaries of research phenomena in gerontology. The article closes with reflections on what the developed concept of age assemblages means for gerontological research and practice.PMID:38376556 | DOI:10.1007/s00391-024-02289-1

Source: Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie - February 20, 2024 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Cordula Endter Vera Gallistl Alexander Peine Anna Wanka Source Type: research