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Anti-aging and Successful Aging Flashcards

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What is anti-aging about?

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  • prevention through personal strategies

- cosmetics

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What leads to variance in aging?

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  • genetic differences
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Advancements in anti-aging science and tech from…

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  • biology and biochemist
  • medicine helps demographic groups appear younger (based on looks)
  • pros and cons
  • appear younger
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Nature vs Science

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  • structured social relations
  • wealth-> only available to those who can afford it
  • evidence-> less damage to our bodies
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Embodiment

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experiencing aging through the physical realities of our bodies

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Symptoms of Aging (visible markers)

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  • Skin Wrinkles
  • Weight gain
  • Hair loss
  • Vitality loss (not as energetic as before)
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Programmed Theory

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  • aging comes with progressive atrophy of tissues and organs
  • body’s failure to repair defects in DNA or protein molecules
  • a biological timetable exists
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Damage or Error Theory

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  • environmental assaults to organisms that induce cumulative damage at various levels as the cause of aging
  • free-radical theory!
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Framing Aging as a scientific discourse

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  1. Finding causes of ageing – theories
  2. Gathering evidence of ageing – hypothesis testing
  3. Treating ageism as an ‘undesirable problem’ or even ‘disease’
  4. Viewing ageing as a ‘medical condition’ – medicalization of ageing
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Medicalization of Aging

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  • Ageing has been perceived as a ‘disease’
  • The ageing body as a site of ‘scientific investigation’
  • Ageing as something that can be ‘cured’  Anti-ageing Discourse
  • Diagnosis-> Potential Treatment ?
  • Consumerism
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What is Anti-aging Discourse?

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Any discussion in which measures or steps are proposed to minimize, reverse and even prevent signs of aging

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Other objectives of the anti-aging discourse

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extending human lifespan (prolongevity)

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Anti-aging is amplified through

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media and celebrity culture

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The power of narratives

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  • personal science anti-aging strategies
  • scientific community
  • ordinary people
  • narratives matter
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Anti-aging strategies

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  1. Cosmetic – powder, makeup, paint, anti-wrinkle, botox, hair extensions
  2. Preventative– exercise, diet, diet or vitamin pills
  3. Compensatory – Viagra, designed to re-invigorate failing functions to a youthful state
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Idealized version of getting older

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  • we all perceive aging differently

- anti-aging requires effort (gym, natural remedies, etc.)

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Sanity or Obsession?

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  • anti-aging has become normalized
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Are people losing their self and value in themselves?

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  • social media presentation of self
  • mental health in old age
  • inner beauty is important
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Gender-specific or seen in both women and men?

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  • more perpetuated expectations for women to need to do something about aging
  • some people don’t care about what they look like and are more concerned with feeling good
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Western medicine sees science as…

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  • progress

- solution that will help people live longer

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Western medicine sees human domination of nature as…

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  • success
  • slowing down the process of aging
  • potential to beat mother nature
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Western medicine sees old age as…

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  • failure
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Intersection of social class and anti-aging

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  • desirable to live longer
  • widening the social inequality between the rich and the poor
  • lack of access has an impact on anti-aging ability
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Gender and anti-aging

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  • Sense of empowerment ?
  • mental health with less choice
  • Men and women (who is affected more?)
  • women have a higher obsession with looking younger (objectified in media and sex work)
  • used to empower women, damages sense of self, ideology, etc.
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Moral and Social Justice Concern

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  • should be accessible to all
  • commodified in our capitalist society
  • SES gap widens
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Neo-liberalism and anti-aging

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  • Anti-aging as individuals’ responsibility
  • health care saving
  • responsibility shifting (state to individuals)
  • Assuming your own failure ( the idea of ‘Blaming the Victim’)
  • Self-control, self discipline (Foucault)
  • Reinforcing the negative stereotypes of “looking old”
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Anti-aging, gender and sexuality

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  • Remain young carries different meanings to men & women
  • Re-asserting masculinity (against erectile dysfunction)
  • Medicalization of the aging body
  • intervention based on modification and enhancement
  • Ex: sex-enhancing drug (e.g., Viagra)
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Is it possible to extend our lifespan or even become immortal?

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optimistic scientific anti-aging research vs aging/dying as a natural phenomena

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Is living forever good or bad?

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  • moral and ethical concerns
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could life without limits, with no end, be meaningful?

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  • Not really
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What are some of the probs expected when we all live forever?

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  • not enough resources
  • failure of body systems
  • more suffering
  • too optimistic
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Anti-aging is…

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  • approach to look young (superficial, biological clock)
  • live forever
  • prevent undesirable problems from occurring early in life (compression of morbidity)
  • scientific component
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Successful aging is…

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  • how to delay symptoms from appearing?
  • medical issue
  • exercise, healthy food (don’t always look young)
  • good QOL
  • micro level impact
  • gov promotion (extra resources and social justice)
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3 domains of successful aging

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  • minimize risk of disease and disability
  • continue engagement with life
  • maintain physical and cognitive function
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De-medicalization of Aging

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  • Viewing aging as a ‘natural’ process
  • Re-evaluating aging
  • How to reconcile both medicalization and de-medicalization of aging ?
  • what would be a balanced view like?

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