Conclusions
Seeing ageing through a lens of disease emphasizes the increasing tendency to percept the process of ageing as something to be fended off and controlled.
The power of the medical model has suppressed social, behaviour, and environmental approaches. Medicine definitely made contributions to collecting knowledge about the process of ageing, but at the same time its control over all aspects of life reduces its effectiveness, drawing attention away from need to understand the complex social and environmental factors that evidently form and structure ageing.
Nowadays prevention of ageing is socially constructed individual duty as health is considered to be an individual responsibility.
It is necessary to promote a wellness model and empower people to accept a more positive approach to ageing, because following healthy lifestyle helps to avoid big part of medicalization of ageing.
There is shift of morally problematic social problems of ageing from law to medicine, which results in gaining more sympathetic and less judgemental but also less objective attitude.
As the management and maximization of life itself are taken as priority, the body seems to be open for countless manipulation at any age.
The social risks of medicalization are manifested both with its unreasonable expansion, and with its insufficiency.
Since medicalization of ageing led to more harm than benefit to the elderly population, it is important to review the methods of medicalization and to start the process of demedicalization.
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