Euro-American notions of successful and healthy aging are taking root globally, shaped and inflected by local cultural and political contexts. India is one place where globally inflected discourses of healthy, active, and successful aging are on the rise. However, notions about just what constitutes healthy aging and how to achieve such a goal do not play out the same way across the globe. This article explores how older Indians of diverse social classes are thinking about their own lives in relation to broader discourses of healthy aging circulating within India and abroad. Analyses of in-depth interviews with 25 individuals (11 women and 14 men, ages 57 to 81, across a range of social classes) reveal that while many among the urban elite are enjoying participating in a globally informed healthy-aging culture, such trends are not at all widespread among the non-elite. Moreover, Indians across social classes tend to interpret their own “healthy aging” goals in ways at odds with their perceptions of Western paradigms of healthy and successful aging, sometimes incorporating critiques of the West into their own reflections about health and well-being in later life. By examining how healthy-successful aging ideologies play out across divergent national-cultural and social-class contexts, our aim is to challenge universalizing models and heighten understanding of social inequalities while opening up a wider set of possibilities for imagining what it is to live meaningfully in later life.

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印度的健康老龄化、自我保健和选择：基于阶级的与全球流行意识形态的接触

欧美关于成功和健康老龄化的观念正在全球扎根，并受到当地文化和政治背景的影响和影响。印度是全球有关健康、积极和成功老龄化的讨论不断兴起的国家之一。然而，关于什么是健康老龄化以及如何实现这一目标的概念在全球范围内的表现却不尽相同。本文探讨了不同社会阶层的印度老年人如何结合印度国内外流传的更广泛的健康老龄化讨论来思考自己的生活。对 25 人（11 名女性和 14 名男性，年龄在 57 岁至 81 岁，来自不同社会阶层）的深度访谈分析表明，虽然许多城市精英喜欢参与全球知情的健康老龄化文化，但这种趋势在非精英阶层中根本不普遍。此外，各个社会阶层的印度人往往以与他们对西方健康和成功老龄化范式的看法不一致的方式解释自己的“健康老龄化”目标，有时将对西方的批评融入到他们自己对健康和福祉的反思中。生活。通过研究健康成功的老龄化意识形态如何在不同的民族文化和社会阶层背景下发挥作用，我们的目标是挑战普遍化的模式并加深对社会不平等的理解，同时为想象什么是有意义的生活提供更广泛的可能性在以后的生活中。