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

本项目探讨人类在“年龄”和“表现/成就”方面的差异如何在当前关于“成功衰老”的话语中融合。它讨论了“成功老龄化”在不同媒体上的（自我）表现，以确定“年龄无关形式的老龄化”的新编排可能会影响年龄的规范结构。一方面，极端老年在“最佳老年”话语中被视为积极的；然而，另一方面，老年人的高成就可能被视为“正常”衰老的隐含反叙事，“正常”衰老通常与缺陷和残疾有关。

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.