'Young' Heart in 'Old' Body. Experiences of Ageing from Older Persons' Perspective

Autor: Zdenko Zeman, Marija Geiger Zeman
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Etnološka tribina : Godišnjak Hrvatskog etnološkog društva
Volume 45
Issue 38
ISSN: 1848-9540
0351-1944
Popis: Age is a social construct that should be analysed as a flexible, contextual category, while old age is subject to coding and interpreting that create different formal and informal concepts of old age. As a micro-social universe, a home for old and infirm persons functions as socio-cultural framework within which, by analysing the experiences of its beneficiaries, we established the existence of four dominant interpretations of old age: fatalist, affirmative, stoical and relativistic. This work is focused on the authentic voices of old persons and personal experiences of old age and ageing. Contextuality and variability (of the feeling) of age, articulately testified by those experiences, show that perceptions of old age and feeling of getting old decisively depend on a personal vision and interpretation of the experience, that need not be compatible with the actual chronological age.
Dob je socijalni konstrukt koji treba analizirati kao fleksibilnu, kontekstualnu kategoriju, a starost podliježe kodiranju i interpretiranju koji stvaraju različite formalne i neformalne predodžbe starosti. Dom za starije i nemoćne osobe kao mikro-socijalni univerzum funkcionira kao socio-kulturni okvir unutar kojeg smo analizom iskustava korisnika utvrdili postojanje četiri dominantne interpretacije starosti: fatalističke, afirmativne, stoičke i relativističke. Ovaj je rad fokusiran na autentične glasove starijih osoba i osobna iskustva starosti i starenja. Kontekstualnost i promjenjivost (osjećaja) dobi o kojima rječito svjedoče ta iskustva pokazuju da percepcija starosti i osjećaj starenja presudno ovise o osobnoj vizuri i interpretaciji iskustva, koji ne moraju biti kompatibilni s kronološkom dobi.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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