RELOCATING FRAILTY THROUGH PRECARITY AND VULNERABILITY

Following an introduction to the debate on precarity as it relates to aging, this paper reconsiders frailty through the lens of precarity and vulnerability. The paper begins by contextualising frailty as a historically situated construct of need and risk. It then considers contemporary understandings of precarity, precariousness, and vulnerability as a means to re-read responses to frailty. Building on this, it relocates frailty within the …