La Terza età nelle narrazioni delle persone anziane

The article analyses 18 semi-structured interviews with self-sufficient individuals over 65 to critically reflect on the rhetoric of active and successful ageing which, if internalized, may guide individuals, contributing to the construction of the "true elderly" otherness and the imaginary of an abject Fourth Age marked by decline. The analysis focuses on three dimensions the relationship with the self, with the world, and the sense of belonging highlighting several strategies of resistance and negotiation enacted by the interviewees in their attempt to carve out spaces of agency in managing daily life. [Publisher's Text].