Chapter 51
Web Book:“ Differently Young” and “Non-autosufficienti ”: Managing Old-Age Stigma in a Senior Center 668
Barbara Pieta

This chapter explores how the medical establishment has created dichotomous terms of autosufficiente (self-sufficient) and non autosufficiente (not self-sufficient) for bureaucratic purposes in Italy. Pieta explores how this plays out in the “Golden Age” Center as a group of dementia patients seeks to find a place in that elderscape.