Arising in the 1980s, the biomedical model of health views aging as a deviant and diseased state necessitating management and a cure. According to biomedical logic, the \"disease\" of aging is caused by malfunctioning molecules and genetic mutations that cause conditions like dementia, Parkinson's, and hearing loss. Aging is akin to being infected by a virus. Dominant infrastructures of biomedical care seek to both cure aging people through various forms of management, and segregate them to conceal their \"disease\" from view. I argue that \"radical care\" disentangles \"cure\" from \"care\" and helps to promote a different form of aged existence that prioritizes flourishing and the preservation of selfhood for the care recipient and caregiver alike. The \"high-touch, low-tech\" nature of the paraprofessional role renders the caregivers most equipped for supporting \"radical care\" and resisting a curative temporality. And yet, the biomedical model maintains the precarity of the paraprofessional, excluding them from dominant infrastructures of care, because this radical care practice threatens curative logic.
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