ABSTRACT
Very elderly people are patently not children. None the less, within contemporary western society old age is often popularly associated with childhood through both verbal and visual images. This chapter explores the significance and impact of this particular process of image-making. First it asks how the tendering of the image of the child occurs, given the quite evidently unchildlike nature of old age. Second, it explores the potential implications of this process for the quality of elderly people’s experience.
