“Old Age Doesn't Come Alone”: Discursive Representations of Health-in-Aging in Geriatric Medicine

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Traditional approaches to identity across the lifespan have assumed that age itself and generational statuses and roles determine “who we can be.” In contrast, a discursive perspective can show how, during interaction, we actively construct age-salient identities for ourselves and others through talk. Conversational processes of age-identity management are explored in a corpus of (United Kingdom) geriatric medical outpatient consultations. In diverse ways, doctors deny the age-relevance of medical troubles that their patients routinely endorse.

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