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The method of the project was based on the employment of in-depth narrative interviews with older Polish migrants now living in Sweden. The author argues that ageing is a natural process of the life cycle and is socially and culturally constructed and that consequently everyone experiences this process individually. One of the paper’s conclusions is that we do not age according to the numbers of years we live, but due to our life experience and the social-historical contexts in which we have lived. Furthermore, we age due to the biography we re/ construct while we are ageing during our life course. Ageing, from a biographical perspective, is a learning process in which people re/ construct their lives with social, educational and cultural contextsand from which they draw from their experiences relating to social practices and historical events.  \nKeywords: biographical ageing, older migrants, life experiences, lifelong learning, identity formation, narrative gerontology  \nIn search of understanding biographical ageing-a research-based concept 87  \nUnderstanding ageing and old age in the light of narrative gerontology  \nWhile ageing, we become (more) invisible. Older adults are often left with internal struggles about health, isolation, loneliness, lack of duties, money and sometimes about gender. They are often portrayed as ‘the others’, as unproductive and problematic for society and they try to escape from such labels as ‘old’(Moen, 2016). The younger generation, often forget that the behaviours ofthe older people they face are based on the experiences they have gone through. Thus, considering the various experiences and historical events of diverse ageing cohort’s population, we need to understand that such events might produce structural changes and contribute to the individualised trajectories of the life course and ageing process.  \nPeter Alheit (2018, p.11) asserted that:  \n“In the development of a modern society the life’s journey is no longer predetermined therein but instead becomes more variable for both the individual as well as for whole groups in society through educational processes and social mobility, migration and technical-cultural change”.  \nThis view corresponds closely with my way of understanding and perceiving ageing in a post-modern world. Ageing is no longer preordained and scheduled, there is no single pattern of ageing, although ageing is socially constructed, we are age individually. The meaning of age and ageing has varied in different societies, cultures and points in history (Hockey & James, 2003 p.4) . Ageing is a process that is managed and negotiated by individuals in different ways, through the use of different resources and strategies, at various points in life, with different consequences and effects (Hockey & James, 2003). Ageing, in this sense, becomes more variable for both the individual and society, and multidimensional too. Understanding ageing as a process means that we are becoming older instead of being older. Ageing is a process of growing older, which is dynamic, interactive, subject to the twistsand turns of life, chance, change and complication, and is exemplified by complexity, thus in this sense we become more unique and more distinctive with age, not less (Randall, 2007) .  \nWe can determine the objective age however, across the life course, each of us individually learns what aging is and then we feel or label ourselves  \n88 Małgorzata Malec-Rawiński  \n‘old’. Referring to Giddens (1991), the post-traditional self, becomes an ","cbCaikuYlqppxgQs","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikuYlqppxgQs","pdf",423832,23,"English","# In search of understanding biographical ageing - a research-based concept\n## Understanding ageing and old age in the light of narrative gerontology","[{\"question\":\"What is the article’s central aim regarding ageing?\",\"answer\":\"To understand ageing as a process of lifelong learning, examine what ageing means in a biographical perspective, and investigate how biographical ageing relates to identity formation.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the research conducted?\",\"answer\":\"The project used in-depth narrative interviews with older Polish migrants now living in Sweden.\"},{\"question\":\"What conclusion does the article reach about how people age?\",\"answer\":\"Ageing is socially and culturally constructed, so individuals do not age according to years lived; instead, ageing outcomes depend on life experience and the social-historical contexts in which people lived.\"}]","In search of understanding biographical ageing - a research-based concept | PDF",1792076254,58]