PRECARITY IN LATE LIFE: RETHINKING DEMENTIA AS A FRAILED OLD AGE

This paper analyses the extent to which frailty and dementia are better understood in the context of new forms of insecurity affecting the life course. Approaches to ageing that are organized around productivity, success, and active late life have contributed to views of dementia as an unsuccessful, failed or ‘frailed’ old age. Operating through dominant frameworks, socio-cultural constructs and organizational practices, the ‘frailties’ of the …