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Baby boomers as future care users—An analysis of expectations in print media

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

The aim of the study was to investigate media presentations of baby boomers as future care users. The Swedish baby boomer generation, born in the 1940s, and known as the '40s generation, has been characterized as youthful and powerful, and a question investigated in the study was whether boomers are supposed to display these characteristics as care users. We analyzed 481 articles in Swedish newspapers, published between 1995 and 2012, with a qualitative content analysis. The results showed that the '40s generation was predicted to become a new breed of demanding, self-aware care users. These claims were supported by descriptions of the formative events and typical characteristics of these individuals, which were then projected onto their future behavior as care users. Such projections tended to portray contemporary care users as passive, submissive, and partly responsible for problems associated with elder care. Consequently, approaches that focus on differences between cohorts need to incorporate a constructionist dimension to highlight the problem of generationism.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2015

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

82-91

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Aging Studies

Volym

34

Issue

Aug

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified

Nyckelord

  • generation
  • eldercare
  • age stratification theory
  • baby boomers
  • media images

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0890-4065