ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that critical disability studies must move beyond arguments about the relevance of disability and the size of the disability community to also consider the needs of old disabled people. It examines why the greying of critical disability studies is necessary by considering possible reasons why the study of age and the study of disability have remained, for the most part, on parallel paths. The chapter explores three possible ways to 'grey' critical disability studies: to analyse how discourses and experiences of ageing and disability intersect; to, engage with theories of ageing and; to centre old disabled people in scholarship, pedagogy and activism. In critical disability studies, old age frequently serves as little more than a marker for the eventuality or promise of disability. The chapter concludes with a reflection of why greying critical disability studies is important for the future of the field.
