Longevity as a formative process: interpreting agency, identity, care, and learning through the lenses of micro-transitions

The contribution interprets longevity as a transformative, situated, and relational process that unfolds through everyday micro-transitions, subtle yet pedagogically significant. Drawing on the analysis of biographical interviews, the study expands the notion of transition beyond canonical events, shedding light on silent reorganizations of experience: interruptions of routine, bodily changes, material or affective losses, and the re-signification of ordinary gestures that constellate growing older. The work restores ontological dignity to implicit, situated, and non-capitalizable forms of learning, framing older adults as agents engaged in reciprocal processes of care, meaning making, and redefinition of self and the world.