Focusing on cultural narratives about men's midlife crises, this article explores the more subtle forms that medicalization takes by broadening and re-orientating the concept of successful ageing away from strictly political, medical or/and sociological discussions of health and ageing and towards cultural representations of masculinity, optimization and the handling of a personal crisis. Using two examples; the British comedy Swimming with Men (2018) and the novel Doppler (2014) by Erlend Loe the article discusses the entanglement of masculinity, crisis and ageing and in doing so argues that cultural narratives about men's midlife crises do more than merely comment on already existing understandings of ageing and should in fact be understood as important components in the ongoing medicalization of middle-aged masculinities.

本文着眼于男性中年危机的文化叙事，通过扩大和重新定位成功老龄化的概念，从对健康和老龄化的严格政治、医学或/和社会学讨论转向医疗化的文化表征，探索医疗化所采取的更微妙的形式。阳刚之气、优化和个人危机的处理。使用两个例子；英国喜剧《与男人同游》（2018）和小说《多普勒》 (2014) 由 Erlend Loe 撰写的文章讨论了男子气概、危机和衰老之间的纠葛，并在此论证了关于男性中年危机的文化叙事不仅仅是评论现有的衰老理解，实际上应该被理解为重要组成部分中年男子气概的持续医学化。