Narratives at work: what can stories of older athletes do?

ABSTRACT Previous research has shown that young adults tend to identify and reinforce negative stereotypes of growing older. They can express both fear and trepidation regarding the bodily changes that occur with advancing age. With this in mind, in this paper we draw upon Frank's (2010) theoretical framework of socio-narratology to examine the work that stories can do . We take as a working example the impact that stories of ageing told by …