Successful Aging: Best Agers at the Intersection between Differentiating Age and Achievement (A04)

这个项目探索了人类在“年龄”和“表现/成就”方面的差异如何在当前关于“成功老龄化”的论述中融合在一起。文章探讨了不同媒介对“成功衰老”的(自我)表征，以确定新的“不同衰老形式的年龄”的编排可能会对年龄的规范结构产生什么影响。一方面，极端高龄在“最佳老龄化”的论述中被认为是积极的；然而，另一方面，高成就的老年人可能被视为对“正常”衰老的一种隐含的反叙事，后者通常与缺陷和残疾联系在一起。

This project explores how human differentiations in terms of “age” and “performance/achievement” converge in current discourses on “successful aging”. It discusses (self-)representations of “successful aging” in different media in order to ascertain what effects the new choreography of “age indifferent forms of aging” may affect normative constructions of age. On the one hand, extreme old age is connoted as positive in discourses of “best aging”; on the other hand, however, elderly high achievers may be seen as an implicit counter-narrative to “normal” aging, which is often associated with deficiency and disability.