7:15pm
| Title: | Re-Visioning Our Aging Society: The Road Ahead |
| Presenter: | Harry R. Moody, PhD |
| Type of Presentation: | Plenary Session |
| Date/Time: | Monday, Oct 17, 2005 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm |
| Abstract: | Our view of aging today alternates between the "ill-derly" and the "well-elderly". The negative image is feeding the "biomedicalization of gerontology" with disastrous results for the field. Meanwhile, we stand poised before the explosive growth of "silver industries" (financial services, travel, retirement housing, etc.) with their positive images of aging almost entirely ignored by mainstream gerontology. The proper approach is a dialectical synthesis between negative and positive dimensions of age and the life-course. In this presentation, I offer an historical and philosophical argument for how theory and policy in the field of aging has come to this point and how it must change in the decades ahead. In conclusion, I offer a treatment of three leading paradigms for thinking about aging in the 21st century: Successful Aging, Productive Aging and Conscious Aging. |
| Goal: | The participants will gain an understanding of the historical and philosophical origins of present-day aging policy and alternative paths for the future. |
| Objective 1: | Participants will trace the history of policy and population images about aging from history to the present day. |
| Objective 2: | Participants will critique assumptions and values entailed by recent paradigms such as "successful aging" and "productive aging". |
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