Abstract
With the rise in the aging population, we are witnessing a burgeoning discourse on how to age well. According to dominant medical, public health, psychological, and popular cultural narratives prevailing in North America and Europe, we each have the potential—and, indeed, the moral and political obligation—to make our own aging “successful,” thereby staving off the impending disabilities and burdens of late life.
This book invites us to think critically about our visions of successful aging. It uses the knowledge of diverse places, people, and perspectives that we have gathered as cultural anthropologists and sociologists to help us realize