Hastings Center Report
On Old Age: A Relational Account of Agency and Meaning in Later Life
Dignity is rightly treated as a key value for people in old age, but agency and meaning can be even more important. Later life entails a more pronounced manifestation of aging but—given its clear distinction from life’s end—also an open domain of possibility, experience, and achievement. For people to realize these goods, we need to create social networks that provide opportunities for flourishing and that support individual agency at a time of vulnerability and decline.
