Views on Aging and Health

Views on Aging and Health

What people expect from aging and how they experience it

The image of the aging society as well as the image of personal aging are is fed by two very different discourses that can be found in the scientific literature. On the one hand age and aging are examined in terms of the individual risks and costs to society and their possible minimization. In another discourse the enormous, seemingly untapped potentials, opportunities and gains of the late phase of life are discussed and analyzed in terms of individual and society. It is an open question, in which way scientific and gerontological research will affect personal images of aging and age-related visions for the future.