The passage above, from a 2011 report for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, speaks to a widespread concern in polit- ical, popular, and academic discussions of aging societies: care. Concerns abound regarding the social, economic, and individual changes needed to look after the growing numbers of older people who experience physical and cognitive changes (Fine 2007). As the quote suggests, discussions of care and aging are closely entangled with conceptualizations of disability: older people who need care are often seen as disabled because they require assistance from others in their daily and nightly lives.

Barken, R., & Santinele Martino, A. (2020). Age disability, and encounters with care: Older people’s experiences of home care. In K. Aubrecht, C. Kelly, & C. Rice (Eds.), The aging-disability nexus (pp. 114-129). UBC Press.