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Social Policy on Ageing: The Case of “Active Ageing” as a Theatrical Metaphor

International Journal of Social Science Studies

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Title Social Policy on Ageing: The Case of “Active Ageing” as a Theatrical Metaphor
 
Creator Moulaert, Thibauld
Paris, Mario
 
Description “Active ageing” has internationally circulated as a prominent approach to meeting the challenges of an ageing population. Through the use of a theatrical metaphor as an organizing principle, this article offers a fresh look at the concept of active ageing that clarifies the origins of its definition (the “story” of active ageing and its “playwrights”) and presents the scope of its action in policy through the exploration of two societal “stages” in Quebec and Belgium. By comparing these two levels (“story”/“stages”) and these two “stages”, it helps to understand why the “comprehensive” version of active ageing developed more in Quebec while, until now, the “reduced” version to its productivist dimension is more evident in Belgium. The discussion also identifies some limits of “active ageing”.
 
Publisher Redfame Publishing
 
Contributor Fund for Scientific Research – Belgium (FRS-FNRS)
 
Date 2013-06-19
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/ijsss/article/view/141
10.11114/ijsss.v1i2.141
 
Source International Journal of Social Science Studies; Vol 1, No 2 (2013); 113-123
2324-8041
2324-8033
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/ijsss/article/view/141/156