Annual Review of Anthropology· 2015Q1· Review
Anthropology of Aging and Care
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Care in later life is a critical site for understanding how increased longevity shapes life's meanings and experiences, reflecting complex social changes alongside lengthening lifespans.
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Key points
- Lengthening lifespans are accompanied by diverse and complex emerging forms of care in later life.
- Care is understood as a polysemic concept, encompassing both resource provision and relational practice.
- Analyses of care must account for the projects, stakes, and obstacles of social reproduction in later life.
- Care in later life circulates across multiple scales, from individual bodies to nations.
- Increased longevity shapes the meanings, experiences, and consequences of life itself through care dynamics.
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Abstract
In concert with lengthening life spans, emerging forms of care in later life reflect complex and diverse social changes. Embracing a polysemic understanding of care as simultaneously resource and relational practice, this review works across scales of social life and theoretical approaches to care to highlight connections and fissures between global political-economic transformations and the most intimate aspects of daily life. Arguing for analyses of care that account for the kinds of projects, stakes, and obstacles that emerge as people engage in social reproduction in later life, this review traces the circulation of care across aging bodies, everyday practices, families, and nations. Care in later life never exclusively impacts the lives of the old; it is thus a critical site for understanding the diverse ways that increased longevity is shaping the meanings, experiences, and consequences of life itself.
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