ousing, experience poorer health, and are served by less public transportation (Bull, 1998, 39).
Gullette (1999) notes how images of aging have been shaped by the media so that we tend to think of the aging population in certain terms as a period of decline:
These discourses make us "experience" aging as if decline were, at one and the same time, a given, a merely personal process (an effect that ignores the falsely universalizing features of the narrative and its constructions of difference and sameness) and a universal wholly biological process (an effect that erases culture altogether: group differences, competing discourses, my right to name its individual dimensions)(Gullette, 1999, 211 12).
However, in many ways the decline that many elderly experience is less a matter of the fact of aging itself than of the way soc
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