Older immigrants with co-morbidities and functional disabilities require care, which is often provided by their families. While transnational family care for older immigrants has been widely studied, little attention has been paid to those living with dementia. Hong Kong Canadian immigrants are widely recognized as flexible circular transnational migrants, yet dementia restricts the mobility of both older adults and their family carers. Using a transnational lens, this paper reports findings from a qualitative study based on interviews with 13 Hong Kong Canadian immigrant family carers in Vancouver-a city with one of the largest Hong Kong immigrant populations in Canada-about their care experiences. First, flexible migration patterns shape family care dynamics and practices. Second, participants navigate formal care by drawing on two frames of reference: Hong Kong and Canada. Third, families negotiate two cultures of care; while they prefer culturally and linguistically appropriate services, they often adopt a pragmatic approach, relying on available options within the mainstream system. Fourth, information and communication technology (ICT) enables families to sustain care that reflects cultural values across distance. This paper also highlights several practical implications. Practitioners should recognize the migration patterns of immigrant families, while policymakers need to fund and expand ethnocultural services and improve access to ICT within care facilities. ICT can also be leveraged to involve family members residing abroad in care decision-making. This paper contributes to the literature on transnational family care, which has largely focused on general aging, by examining family care in the context of dementia.

The home environment has been a central topic in the discipline of environmental gerontology. Home becomes the place where inhabitants' emotions and senses intertwine with their physical environment. As time spent at home increases with age, so does the importance of home environments for inhabitants' wellbeing. However, contemporary understandings of wellbeing within environmental gerontology have been criticized for their individualistic and human-centered approaches, treating the home environment primarily as a passive determinant of subjective wellbeing and neglecting the relationality of wellbeing in material, spatial and temporal contexts. This paper adopts a material gerontology perspective to conceptualize the relationship between aging inhabitants and their home environment as "person-home-assemblages". The aim of this study is to understand wellbeing in relation to aging and the home environment through these assemblages. To do so, we discuss the assemblage analysis of three cases. These cases were selected based on entanglements of transitional life events and changes in architectural environments. Each case combines data from an interview concerning an inhabitant's housing biography, an interview with the architect who designed the inhabitant's current dwelling, and material representations of the home environment. Our findings pull together aging persons, architectural spaces, personal objects, evolving landscapes and socially constructed housing ideals in relation to aging and wellbeing. Two primary perspectives emerged. Firstly, wellbeing emerges in fundamentally specific and situated ways from person-home-assemblages. Secondly, wellbeing emerges from person-home-assemblages while also actively shaping the evolution of these assemblages. These perspectives highlight how the home environment becomes an active actor and how home environments and inhabitants co-evolve and age together over time.

While contemporary ageing policies emphasise the importance of supporting older people's agency, research on how people living with dementia themselves perceive and articulate agency remains limited. Existing studies have often focused on the loss of agency or on external factors that enable or constrain it, leaving a gap in understanding the subjective, lived experience of agency as dementia progresses. This study examines the sense of agency among people living with dementia from their own perspectives, utilising Jyrki Jyrkämäs modalities of agency framework. Based on interviews with 19 participants living with dementia (aged 68-85), the research reveals how agency is experienced, maintained and adapted in everyday life. People with dementia express strong desires to maintain control over their daily lives and decision-making, particularly within their home environments and social relationships. Rather than focusing on limitations, they express agency through capabilities, desires and possibilities. Emotional processing, including humour and acceptance, plays a crucial role in adapting to cognitive changes. The study also highlights the importance of relational agency, whereby it is sustained through social connections and support from family members. This interdependence represents not a loss of agency but a reconfiguration that enables individuals to maintain meaningful expressions of agency even as cognitive functions decline. The research contributes to a more nuanced understanding of agency in dementia as constant, adaptive and often shared, with implications for service design and policy that emphasise remaining abilities, relational and emotional support, and the strengthening of both individual and shared forms of agency.

This article examines the go-along method as a transformative, participatory approach for exploring how older adults experience aging through movement and interaction within their everyday environments. Drawing on a UK-based study, Enabling Person-Centered Integrated Care Networks (EPICS), it demonstrates how walking alongside participants allows researchers to access embodied, sensory, and relational dimensions of daily life that conventional interviews often overlook. The go-along fosters inclusivity by enabling participants to guide routes, pace, and topics, co-creating data that illuminate how mobility, memory, and emotion shape the experience of aging. Positioned within broader qualitative and socio-material traditions, the paper highlights the methodological value of the go-along for generating reflexive, context-rich insights into the relationships between people, place, and everyday practice.

The extension of working life has become a key policy agenda in Western societies. Studies have shown that purpose and competence development are important factors for the extension of working life. Hence, this article provides a theoretical and critical lens for understanding older workers' perceptions of meaningful competence development. It is based on qualitative fieldwork conducted with older workers and their managers in Denmark, with Hartmut Rosa's theory of acceleration, alienation, and resonance as its analytical standpoint. We demonstrate that current labor market dynamics and paradigms of accelerating, continuous competence development risk alienating older workers and shortening their working lives instead of extending them. Furthermore, these dynamics disregard that later working lives are already full of competences, experience, and wisdom. Therefore, we encourage meaningful competence development that blossoms in slow, informal, and mutual encounters and a different logic to counterbalance the current push for acceleration and growth, as older workers can mediate and enable resonance in the workplace. We apply Donna Haraway and Ursula K. Le Guin's theories of swords and carrier bags to problematize dominant stories promoting self-development and a competence orientation for the sake of competition and discuss alternative stories of later working lives that recognize the importance in caring, storing, creating, and sustaining relations. In sum, we contribute with a story that emphasizes the value in consolidating, employing, and nurturing existing skills and relationships in the workplace and recommend a broader repertoire of being in later working life.

Older people are increasingly using personal and environmental resources to have a good life in older age. The concept of aging well has gained importance for Turkish circular migrants, who typically split their time between two distinctly different locations. The aim of the present study was to explore older circular migrants' thoughts and practices to facilitate aging well. The research draws on qualitative data collected through 20 interviews with 10 transnational and 10 internal older circular migrants in rural areas of Türkiye. As a result of the thematic analysis, three main themes emerged: (i) Places of belonging: Sense of trust and connection (ii) Home place: Satisfying and different from the host place and (iii) Permanent homecoming is not an option. The findings showed that both internal and transnational older migrants strategically prefer circular movement with circular migration emerging as an aging well strategy. It is recommended that future studies focus on a life course perspective that intersects with place and belonging, when examining the facilitators or barriers that older circular migrants face in promoting narratives of aging well.

Over the past years, attention has been drawn to how narrative ideas could be integrated in care practices. For many years, we have inquired into, challenged, and stretched the concept of narrative care. For us, narrative care is more than to acknowledge or listen to people's stories. We see care itself as an intrinsically narrative endeavor. We think of narrative care as an active and relational co-composition of experience - a way of making sense of the world together, with or without spoken words in imaginative ways. In that sense, narrative care is forward looking rather than only dwelling on past experiences. Within this understanding, narrative care does not depend solely on the ability to tell or listen to stories, rather it depends on the ability to engage in and become part of experience, and to imagine the unimaginable. In this autobiographical narrative inquiry, we think with our experiences alongside older adult family members, as we look both backward and forward to continue to learn. We show how narrative care is about an opening to learn, to imagine the unimaginable, and to live with agency. It is in these moments that we can find ways in which we can retell and relive our lives in ways that allow us to become otherwise and to create forward-looking stories.

This article rethinks ageing with chronic breathlessness through a posthuman and postphenomenological lens, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among older adults with chronic respiratory disease in northern England. The article conceptualises breathlessness not solely as a biomedical symptom but as a sociomaterial assemblage involving human bodies, medical technologies, environments, and more-than-human companions. Support groups are likewise framed as assemblages that co-produce care through interactions among people, spaces, objects, and infrastructures. Building on feminist posthumanist theory and postphenomenology, the article explores how medical devices become embodied extensions of ageing bodies, how environmental and infrastructural factors mediate breath, and how multispecies relationships-pets, plants, even microbes-participate in care. The analysis demonstrates that chronic breathlessness emerges in entanglement with the world, not within isolated individuals, and that care practices are distributed across human and non-human actors. This approach challenges human-centred framings of ageing and illness, contributing to an expanded gerontological paradigm that recognises ageing as a relational and more-than-human process. The findings carry implications for care practices, support group design, and theoretical frameworks in ageing studies.

Despite the recent surge in older content creators on short-video platforms, scholarly attention to this phenomenon remains limited, particularly in relation to developing countries. This study aims to address this research gap by employing the grounded theory approach to in-depth interviews with 15 older social media influencers on the DouYin platform in China. We explore their motivations, their dilemmas, and the strategies they employ in content production. Findings reveal that older social media influencers are primarily motivated by a desire to pursue rejuvenation and realize value. However, this creative process presents a range of challenges, encompassing aging-related concerns, caregiving responsibilities, Internet addiction, and business operations. To surmount these challenges, older social media influencers have adopted specific action strategies, including digital literacy enhancements, family task divisions, social support, and technology innovations. This study develops a conceptual model that describes the creative process of older social media influencers as a mechanism termed "production motivation-role dilemma-action strategy." This research not only enhances comprehension of the older social media influencer phenomenon but also provides valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities associated with older participation in digital media content creation. Policymakers can leverage these study outcomes to implement diverse measures, including family support, age-appropriate product design, and optimization of technology platforms, all aimed at assisting older adults in surmounting creation dilemmas and promoting active aging.

The increasing number of older migrants in Germany presents a distinctive set of challenges in accessing home care services, largely due to linguistic, bureaucratic, and cultural barriers. This study employs the analytical lens of bricolage to examine the adaptive strategies employed by older migrants, informal carers, and professionals in addressing care gaps. The research, which draws on 49 semi-structured interviews conducted across Berlin, Leverkusen, and Brandenburg, reveals that older migrants rely on familial and community networks for a range of support, including translation, emotional support, and navigation of complex systems. Informal carers often utilise a combination of personal support and digital tools such as translation apps to surmount encountered barriers, thereby demonstrating resilience while drawing attention to the inequities in care accessibility. Similarly, professionals adopt improvised strategies, but they are constrained by factors such as staffing shortages, resource limitations, and structural discrimination, which compromise the delivery of culturally responsive care. These results emphasise the collective nature of bricolage, whereby stakeholders work and improvise to address deficiencies in care. Although bricolage encourages autonomy, it also highlights care system shortcomings that contribute to the reliance on improvised solutions. Policy recommendations include enhancing linguistic accessibility, leveraging migrant-led organisations, and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration to build more equitable care systems in Germany.

Although accessibility is increasingly understood as socially and relationally shaped, discussions still tend to emphasize structural, institutional, or individually-oriented approaches. This paper extends these conversations by adopting a micro-relational perspective that foregrounds how accessibility is enacted through the sensory, ethical, and interactional work that unfolds between people in everyday life. The paper uses embodied spatial exploration to elicit tacit, relational knowledge often inaccessible through conventional interviews. Drawing on participatory sessions and group discussion with nineteen older adults aged 70-85, the study examines how participants' so-called "complaints" about pace, sound, and interaction function as situated critiques that reveal the hidden cultural and sensory infrastructures of public space. The analysis advances three interrelated concepts. Relational accessibility captures how access to participation is co-produced through reciprocal adjustment rather than determined by individual capacity or spatial design. Embodied mediation highlights how perception, gesture, and affect operate as channels through which people and environments co-create legibility, safety, and comfort. Cultural press describes the moral and social expectations that act as environmental demands shaping participation and belonging. These three concepts reveal accessibility as a situational and ethical process enacted through the interplay of etiquette, perception, and mutual care. By tracing older adults' strategies of slowing, signaling, resisting, and recalibrating, the paper extends environmental perspectives beyond structural fit and cultural approaches beyond representation. It concludes that accessibility in later life depends not only on built environments but on the ethics of coexistence and the collective capacity to notice, adjust, and care within shared spaces.

The experiences of older lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) adults are still neglected in public policies, organizations and services, which results in limited tailored support for this population. This case study aims to contribute to affirmative care within community gerontology by examining the structure, everyday practices, and perceived impact of Eternamente Sou (E.Sou), a community-based organization supporting older LGBTQIA+ adults in São Paulo (Brazil). E.Sou is dedicated to supporting this population through affirmative practices and community building. Using participant observation, document analysis, and a 120-min collective conversation circle, we conducted a case study. Through reflexive thematic analysis, three theme were identified: (1) E.Sou: "Made it happen" (Path from inception to consolidation); (2) Practices of care and advocacy (meeting the needs of older LGBTQIA+ adults); (3) Participation and effects on older LGBTQIA+ adults (Engagement, empowerment, and influence on wellbeing). Findings showed that E.Sou addresses urgent needs of older LGBTQIA+ adults while providing a space to affirm identities, foster community, and collectively reshape experiences of aging. This case study contributes to expanding international dialogue on LGBTQIA+ aging and offering transferable lessons for affirmative policy and practice aligned with the Leave No One Behind principle of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Dementia is one of the most feared and misunderstood conditions of our time. Even as public awareness has increased, people living with dementia continue to face exclusion, moral disregard, and systemic neglect. Decades of advocacy, education, and contact-based interventions have sought to reduce stigma. Yet the enduring nature of stigma suggests that these approaches may be addressing only part of the problem. Drawing on anthropological and sociological theories of taboo and stigma, this paper argues for a cultural theory of dementia stigma rooted in symbolic pollution and narrative collapse. It proposes that dementia becomes stigmatized not only because it is misunderstood, but because it violates cultural expectations of personhood, consistency, and intelligibility. Stigma is best understood as a surface manifestation of an older, more elemental cultural logic: taboo. Taboo operates through shared, often unconscious rules about what counts as normal. Viewed together, Douglas and Goffman reveal a two-stage process. First, taboo marks the condition as anomalous, a violation of symbolic order. Then, stigma enacts and enforces that marginalization. This sequence helps explain why existing stigma interventions often fail to take root: they target the social aftereffects without addressing the deeper symbolic disorder. Reframing dementia stigma as rooted in cultural taboo opens new avenues for both scholarly inquiry and applied intervention. The paper concludes by proposing culturally grounded provocations that imagine what it might look like to reframe how dementia is seen, told, and recognized, both socially and culturally. That work begins with reimagining what dementia is allowed to mean.

Generativity in later life, defined as older adult's concern for contributing to others and to society, has been associated with increased quality of life in later life and explored mainly among healthy, independent, community-dwelling older adults. This study explored the presence, nature and significance of generative concerns among older adults who became physically disabled in middle age or earlier. Thirty-two people (20 women, 12 men) aged over 60 and living with physical limitations for a minimum of 20 years were interviewed about their contributions to others and how they were influenced by the experience of living with physical disability. Responses were thematically analyzed. Almost all participants described at least one manifestation of generativity. We identified four main themes: (a) parenting and grandparenting; (c) activism and participation in disability-related organizations; (b) being a role model for younger generations; and (d) self-care as maintaining autonomy. Disability is present in virtually all of the participants' contributions, mostly as a theme that is the object of the contribution or as a circumstance that molds it. The findings showed an expanded understanding of generativity, which includes everyday activities and self-care aspects that are not generally considered in typical mid-life generativity. Most contributions intertwine future-focused actions for others and present-oriented self-enhancement. Our results suggest that generativity is possible among older adults with disability. It serves as a pathway for discovering meaning in disability (and in life) through the development of others and yourself.

Age studies scholarship has increasingly interrogated the intersection of care for older adults and neoliberal market ideologies. This study explores how popular culture, specifically the cozy mystery genre, negotiates the language and optics of care for older adults in terms of costs and accessibility. Taken as a whole, the stories with ageing detectives offer invigorating alternatives to the traditional decline narratives by sustaining the protagonists as older detectives who still keep their autonomy, independence, and more important productivity by solving cases. While such representations offer exhilarating alternatives to ageist stereotypes, they also risk making older protagonists' value contingent on productivity and activity, while obscuring their potential care needs and the issue of access to care services from the reader. Through a close reading of Richard Osman's debut novel The Thursday Murder Club, this article explores the idealized depiction of later life care within the luxurious retirement village Coopers Chase. The analysis reveals that while the genre guarantees a sugar-coated and comfortable reading experience, it also allows for a reflection on how social changes impact the community, particularly regarding later life care. Ultimately, the article argues that the idealized depiction of the protagonists' later life care facilities exposes a key reality of care under the neoliberal ethos: enjoying quality of life and care in older age becomes a luxury, taken for granted only by those with the means to pay for it.