KINE 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Independent And Identically Distributed Random Variables, Geriatrics, Renée Zellweger
1 Mar 2017
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Ageing as relational: old age* understood in relation to childhood, youth, middle age, etc. and vice-versa, we construct, negotiate and interpret ageing in our interactions with one another. Different meanings depending upon our sense of self in time, as well as our sense of others. The third age: whereas (cid:858)old age(cid:859) has (cid:374)egati(cid:448)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:374)otatio(cid:374)s, the (cid:858)third age(cid:859): (cid:862) refers to an emerging life stage within contemporary society that represents new possibilities for personal identity development through an expanded period of (cid:272)o(cid:374)su(cid:373)ptio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d (cid:272)hoi(cid:272)e(cid:863) (cid:894)phoe(cid:374)i(cid:454) & (cid:373)ith, (cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1005)(cid:1005)(cid:895) (cid:862)di(cid:448)ersit(cid:455) (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) the agi(cid:374)g e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e has become both the normal and the (cid:374)or(cid:373)ati(cid:448)e(cid:863) (cid:894)i(cid:271)id(cid:895) Stories and counterstories: tell us about the social nature of ageing, do(cid:373)i(cid:374)a(cid:374)t stories: (cid:862)we are (cid:271)or(cid:374) i(cid:374)to a (cid:272)ulture (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h has a read(cid:455) sto(cid:272)k of (cid:374)arrati(cid:448)es (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h (cid:449)e appropriate a(cid:374)d appl(cid:455) i(cid:374) our e(cid:448)er(cid:455)da(cid:455) so(cid:272)ial i(cid:374)tera(cid:272)tio(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:894)p& , (cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1005)(cid:1005)(cid:895) Prevailing master narrative associated with growing older is the narrative of decline. Master (cid:374)arrati(cid:448)es usuall(cid:455) operate u(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)iousl(cid:455), like a (cid:862)(cid:271)luepri(cid:374)t(cid:863)
