Les classifications du vieillissement
quelle résonance dans les représentations des femmes âgées ?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14428/emulations.013.007Keywords:
Older/elderlywomen, Aging, Age, Activity, FrailtyAbstract
This article aims to challenge the erudite classifications regarding aging and the social representations of aging in women aged 65 years and older. Using Hacking’s (2006) theory of interactive classifications, we attempt to identify the ways in which classifications of age, activity, and fragility resonate with the representations of aging from the perspectives of older women. These women participated in interviews in the context of a recent qualitative study. The interactions between these two dimensions were expressed in terms of resistance to the category of “elderly woman”. The notion of activity was used for refuting aging as well as to ensure a “continuity of self” and one’s involvement in life activities despite the lived process of increased frailty.