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Linking aging theory and disability models: increasing the potential to explore aging with physical impairment
- Author:
- PUTNAM Michelle
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 42(6), December 2002, pp.799-806.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Most social theories of aging do not directly address aging with physical impairment or the cumulative experience of disability over the life course. Potential exists for social theories of aging to be applied to the experience of aging with physical impairment. To do so, physical impairment and disability must be clearly operationalised. The author suggests using social models of disability as frameworks in this process and provides examples of how this might be done with current social theories of aging.