This leads to the ageless self hypothesis, with successive age groups there is a growing discrepancy between subjective age experience and chronological age.
In economic contexts it may be possible to impound the agent's reputation - like 'good will' in the value of a firm - thereby making incentives 'ageless'.
Biggs (1997) presents a variety of accounts which are all, basically, a version of the ageless ghost wearing the mask of the time-weary machine.
By bringing such artefacts into the lobby, the residents constructed an ' ageless' identity that was symbolically connected to the youthful pursuit of fashion, consumer culture and fitness.
The idea of an ageless self, so appealing in a youth-oriented society, also derives support from studies showing that older people subjectively experience themselves as younger than their chronological age.
Four hypotheses, derived from social gerontological theories, are developed and tested against data : the female beauty hypothesis, the double marginality hypothesis, the ageing mask hypothesis and the ageless self hypothesis.
Mental facilities and the capacity to learn are not viewed as ageless.
As such, it is something that is not normally revealed in academic discourse (and so, in the world of our own literature, we gerontologists can indeed appear ageless).
