ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes an integrative critical gerontology information framework based on multidisciplinary perspectives emerging across varied domains of knowledge. It fills a gap in the marginal representation and inclusion of older adults beyond limited understanding of their human information behavior in existing information sciences (IS) conceptualizations. The needs and coverage of older adults in intellectual discourse has been addressed in various disciplines such as medicine, social work, nursing, public health, psychology, sociology, and others. There is little research, however, that provides a holistic integration of these for IS professionals, including researchers, scholars, educators, students, and practitioners, among others. This chapter provides a glimpse of aging research in some areas of study through a multidisciplinary information-focused point of view as they relate to aging topics, subjects, terminologies, and associated vocabularies. Further, a critical self-reflection of the current state of IS scholarship on aging provides an assessment of existing content coverage, scope, and blinders to identify future directions of growth. The integrative critical gerontology information framework can serve as the foundation for a systematic, rigorous, and impact-driven approach moving forward towards diversified knowledge bases and experiences around the role of information in an aging society.
