SOCI 3660 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Canada Pension Plan, General Idea
22 Apr 2017
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Mitchell explains that when we try to focus on family and aging, our lens goes towards those in midlife (45-64) or older. However, there is a change that we witness, in which we no longer use the terms, elderly or seniors. The newer usage is older persons: tends to be individuals past their retirement age: myths, the elderly are frail, unproductive, dependent: there is this assumption that post- retirement, older persons will be increasingly more reliant on others. There is a wider discursive idea that they reach an age where they have less agency: the elderly are greedy geezers . Assumption that they life a wealthy lifestyle: the elderly are using too many social programs ( apocalyptic demography ) They are a drain on health care systems. They will be too reliant on the canada pension plan: aging families of the past had better, stronger relationships.
