TY - CHAP

T1 - Shaping old age: Innovation partnerships, senior centres and billiards tables as active ageing technologies

AU - Lassen, Aske Juul

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - During the past decade active ageing has been positioned as a solution to the problem of global ageing. While the scientific, economic and even moral arguments for pursuing a more active old age has been many, the integration of active ageing in everyday practices face challenges. This chapter explores the ways that active ageing policies become part of everyday practices, by proposing the concept of active ageing technologies. Active ageing technologies are material and immaterial condensations of knowledge that form old age in specific ways. Through the cases of an innovation partnership, two activity centres and a billiards table, the author explores how active ageing policies are transformed in practice. The chapter draws on an ethnographic study of active ageing conducted at the two activity centres, as well as the author’s participation in the innovation partnership. The author uses this constellation to explore how technologies bridge policy and practice, and concludes that active ageing is transformed in everyday practices, and that the good old age is formed through a negotiation between ambiguous and contrasting practices and ideologies.

AB - During the past decade active ageing has been positioned as a solution to the problem of global ageing. While the scientific, economic and even moral arguments for pursuing a more active old age has been many, the integration of active ageing in everyday practices face challenges. This chapter explores the ways that active ageing policies become part of everyday practices, by proposing the concept of active ageing technologies. Active ageing technologies are material and immaterial condensations of knowledge that form old age in specific ways. Through the cases of an innovation partnership, two activity centres and a billiards table, the author explores how active ageing policies are transformed in practice. The chapter draws on an ethnographic study of active ageing conducted at the two activity centres, as well as the author’s participation in the innovation partnership. The author uses this constellation to explore how technologies bridge policy and practice, and concludes that active ageing is transformed in everyday practices, and that the good old age is formed through a negotiation between ambiguous and contrasting practices and ideologies.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - Geriatrics

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 9781138683839

SP - 222

EP - 236

BT - Framing Age: Contested Knowledge in Science and Politics

A2 - Loffeier, Iris

A2 - Majerus, Benoit

A2 - Moulaert, Thibauld

PB - Routledge

ER -