ABSTRACT
Critical gerontology and critical disability studies share several significant values. Yet despite such commonalities and the growing understanding that disability and ageing interweave throughout the life course, each has traditionally been a distinct area of study with its own unique history and trajectory. This chapter explores the many parallels between critical gerontology and critical disability studies. Further, it utilises narrative methodology to examine the life story of one informant to emphasise the extensive possibilities such an interdisciplinary approach offers, particularly as growing numbers of people are ageing with lifelong disabilities. In doing so, it explores the unique ways people ageing with disabilities are marginalised in ways that often culminate in later life. The chapter suggests that the integration of critical gerontology and critical disability studies can offer a deeper understanding of ways that anti-ageing and anti-disability discourses interact in the lives of those ageing with disabilities.
