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Healthy Ageing: A Capability Approach to Inclusive Policy and Practice

Healthy Ageing: A Capability Approach to Inclusive Policy and Practice

Stephens, Christine
Breheny, Mary

Hardcover

Series: Critical Approaches to Health

General PsychologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1138193925
ISBN13: 9781138193925
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 13 2018
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

What does it mean to age well? This important new book redefines what 'successful' ageing means, challenging the idea that physical health is the only criteria to gauge the ageing process and that an ageing population is necessarily a burden upon society.

Using Sen's Capability Approach as a theoretical starting point Healthy Ageing: A Capability Approach to Inclusive Policy and Practice outlines a nuanced perspective that transcends the purely biomedical view, recognising ideas of resilience, as well as the experiences of older people themselves in determining what it means to age well. It builds to provide a comprehensive response to the overarching discourse that successful ageing is simply about eating well and exercising, acknowledging not only that older people are not always able to follow such advice, but also that well-being is mediated by factors beyond the physical.

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