Successful Images of Successful Ageing? Representations of Vigorous Elderly People in a Swedish Educational Television Programme

Wallander, Kristina
Carlsson, Ulla
Media and Communication Studies, Umeå Universitysv
2014-11-14T09:54:04Z
2014-11-14T09:54:04Z
2013-06
The dominant discourse concerning older people used to be one of decline and loss. Lately, however, representations of old age have tended to be more diverse and two paradigms have been introduced – one framing enfeeblement and one framing new, positive roles for older people, conceptualized as successful ageing. The present article demonstrates how repre - sentations of vigorous elderly people are construed in the programme VeteranTV , produced by UR, Swedish educational television. Part of the aim of VeteranTV was to enhance the image of life after 65 in an anti-ageist spirit. The article discusses the images of vigorous elderly people with respect to their emphasis on sameness or difference, their age-coding, the discourses and subject positions emphasized in them, and not least, their possible ageism.sv
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Nordicom Review 34 (2013) 1, pp. 91-103sv
978-91-86523-67-1
DOI: 10.2478/nor-2013-0045
http://hdl.handle.net/2077/37386
engsv
Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicomsv
images of older peoplesv
successful ageingsv
ageismsv
URsv
educational discoursesv
narrative strategiessv
Successful Images of Successful Ageing? Representations of Vigorous Elderly People in a Swedish Educational Television Programmesv
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article, peer reviewed scientificsv

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