“YOU BECOME LESS OF A PERSON”: BEING UNNEEDED AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LONELINESS IN LATER LIFE
Ad Maulod, Malcolm Ravindran, Angelique Chan · 2023
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Ad Maulod, Malcolm Ravindran, and Angelique Chan explore a neglected face of loneliness in old age: feeling unneeded, in a 2023 study. Interviews with 44 older Singaporeans traced loneliness across family, friends, work, and community life. Standard accounts stress missing company or feeling left out, but these elders kept returning to lost usefulness.
Being unneeded tied to lost roles, shrinking control, poor health, and dark views of aging itself. In Singapore it also rubs against a merit ethic that ties worth to striving, an idea the state has long promoted. The authors argue that policies against loneliness must restore roles and recognition, not just contact.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ad Maulod, Malcolm Ravindran, Angelique Chan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |