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- Title
In Praise of Adventure: Changing the Narrative of Later Life.
- Authors
Randall, William L.
- Abstract
For many of us, aging is viewed and experienced in essentially tragic terms: as a narrative of decline, a downward trajectory to decrepitude and death. Such a way of "storying" later life can set us up for (among other things) narrative foreclosure, which can feed the depression to which we are susceptible in the face of aging's many challenges. This article presents an alternative and more positive narrative of later life. Drawing on ideas from narrative gerontology, it outlines how aging can be "re-genre-ated" from tragedy to adventure in at least four main directions: Outward, Inward, Backward, and Forward.
- Subjects
PSYCHOLOGICAL aspects of aging; LIFE change events; LIFESTYLES; SOCIAL perception; GERIATRICS; RECREATION; QUALITY of life; MENTAL depression; DISEASE susceptibility
- Publication
Generations, 2023, Vol 47, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
0738-7806
- Publication type
Article