Altern und Vulnerabilität

Mark Schweda

Abstract

Ageing and vulnerability: A life course perspective. This contribution focuses on the interrelation of ageing and vulnerability. It aims to clarify how growing older makes us more vulnerable and susceptible to harm and impairment. I start from the discussion in applied ethics whether older people constitute a vulnerable group. It will turn out that common narrow conceptions of vulnerability do not provide a sufficient basis for a general equation of old age and vulnerability. Hence, I proceed by considering old age in the anthropological context of a fundamental human vulnerability as such. This opens a process perspective on the emergence, development, and transformation of vulnerability over the human life course.

Altern und Vulnerabilität

From the book Moralische Dimensionen der Verletzlichkeit des Menschen

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