Framing age : contested knowledge in science and politics / edited by Iris Loffeier, Benoît Majerus and Thibauld Moulaert.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Demographic change as dystopia : contemporary German discourses on ageing, between science and politics / Reinhardt Messerschmidt -- Recommendations concerning the use of physical exercise to improve the wellbeing of older people in France / Cécile Collinet and Matthieu Delalandre -- "Regimes of hope" in planning later life : medical optimism in the field of anti-ageing medicine / Mark Schweda and Larissa Pfaller -- Nationalism and the moral economy of ageing / Magnus Nilsson -- Sexual assistance, suicide assistance and the condition of dependent older adult / Alexandre Lambelet -- Toward a biopolitics of old age : vulnerability and ageing in postwar France / Richard C. Keller -- Connecting categories : age, gender and archaeologies of knowledge / Nicole Kramer -- The breakdown of consensus on pro-natalist policies : media discourse, social research and a new demographic agreement / Antía Pérez-Caramés -- The social construction of dependency : controversies in France around an assessment instrument in France / Nicolas Belorgey -- Discerning ageing in relation to the law? Debates on the legal framework of freedom of movement of the elderly in France between 2004 and 2015 / Lucie Lechevalier Hurard and Benoît Eyraud -- Different initial training, different professional practices? Latitude and interprofessionality in dependency assessment / Jingyue Xing and Solène Billaud -- Shaping old age : innovation partnerships, senior centres and billiards tables as active ageing technologies / Aske Juul Lassen.