| Titre | Vieillissement actif et aînés handicapés au Québec : duo du possible ou mirage ? | |
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| Auteur | Émilie Raymond, Amanda Grenier | |
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Revue | Les Politiques sociales |
| Numéro | no 1-2, 2012 Le vieillissement actif. Regards pluriels | |
| Page | 113-125 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The model of active aging exercises a dominant influence on social policies directed towards the elderly. This authority is usually unquestioned and it seems to correspond with changes of opinion surrounding the social role of older people. But does it really respect the diversity of their needs, their paths of life, their aspirations and their socio-economic conditions ? This article offers a critical reflection on active aging in its capacity to engage (or not) with the experience of aging of old people as a whole. The context of active aging as it is conceptualized and put into operation by the Ministry of the Family and of the Elderly in Quebec is here compared with the descriptions and experiences of handicapped old people who were asked how they saw the process of aging. The analysis of their replies leads us to question three aspects of active aging : the question of personal choice and of the ability to maintain it, the question of access to the spaces designated for activity, and finally the question of the relation of the individual to society that is promoted by this model. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=LPS_121_0113 |
