Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Active Aging(also: Active Ageing, Healthy Aging, Successful Aging)
- A policy framework and paradigm promoted by the World Health Organization that emphasizes maintaining physical activity, social engagement, and independence in later life to improve health outcomes and quality of life. While the concept has influenced health policy and…
- Biomedicalization of Aging(also: Medicalization of Aging)
- The tendency, identified by critical gerontologists, to reduce the complexity of later life to problems of physical and cognitive decline requiring medical or technological intervention. Biomedicalization frames older adults as patients rather than citizens, and positions…
- Critical Gerontology
- An interdisciplinary approach to the study of aging that critiques the dominant biomedical framing of later life and foregrounds structural, political, and cultural influences on older people's experiences. Critical gerontology rejects the "discourse of decline" in which aging…
- Socio-Gerontechnology
- A theoretical framework, developed by Alexander Peine and Louis Neven, that analyses aging and technology as mutually constitutive: technologies do not simply serve pre-existing aging needs, and aging is not a pre-given biological fact — the two co-produce each other through…
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