In recent years, the field of ageing studies has flourished, with a growing number of scholars paying attention to the cultural implications of population ageing.
[1][2] Ageing studies break from the traditional field of gerontology by highlighting how biological ageing is mediated by cultural construction, and by emphasising the self-representation of the elderly.
Researchers working in this field interrogate the cultural discourses and practices that construct the meaning of ageing.
[7][8] Within this perspective, ageing is understood not merely as a biological state, but as a lived experience, embodied and mediated, occurring within specific material and social circumstances.
[9] Research in this field is primarily conducted through methodologies associated with the social sciences and the humanities.