Leisure in old age: disciplinary practices surrounding the discourse of active ageing
In the 1990s, the World Health Organization adopted the term ’’active ageing’’, which currently represents a key vision of old age in Western societies facing the situation of demographic ageing. The meaning of the idea of active ageing is based on the concept of individuals actively and systematic...
Main Author: | Jaroslava Hasmanová Marhánkova |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Linköping University Electronic Press
2010-10-01
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Series: | International Journal of Ageing and Later Life |
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Online Access: | https://journal.ep.liu.se/IJAL/article/view/1205 |
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