Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Biomedicalization of Aging(also: Medicalization of Aging)
- The tendency, identified by critical gerontologists, to reduce the complexity of later life to problems of physical and cognitive decline requiring medical or technological intervention. Biomedicalization frames older adults as patients rather than citizens, and positions…
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