Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age
Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age

Author: Higgs, Paul

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2016-10-05

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1447319052

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How do we sustain agency and identity amidst the frailty of advanced old age? What role does care play in this process? Pushing forward new sociological theory, this book explores the theoretical and practical issues raised by age and infirmity. It begins with a theoretical examination of the fourth age, interrogating notions of agency, identity and personhood, as well as the impact of frailty, abjection and ‘othering’. It then applies this analysis to issues of care. Exploring our collective hopes and fears concerning old age and the ends of people’s lives, this is essential reading on one of the biggest social issues of our time.

Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age
Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age

Author: Paul Higgs

Publisher:

Published: 2016

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ISBN-13: 9781447319085

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As humans live longer, the elderly population increases, and the challenges we face in addressing their needs continue to evolve. This book explores the theoretical and practical issues raised by advanced aging in the contemporary world.

Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age
Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age

Author: Higgs, Paul

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2016-10-05

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1447319079

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How do we sustain agency and identity amidst the frailty of advanced old age? What role does care play in this process? Pushing forward new sociological theory, this book explores the theoretical and practical issues raised by age and infirmity. It begins with a theoretical examination of the fourth age, interrogating notions of agency, identity and personhood, as well as the impact of frailty, abjection and ‘othering’. It then applies this analysis to issues of care. Exploring our collective hopes and fears concerning old age and the ends of people’s lives, this is essential reading on one of the biggest social issues of our time.

New Challenges to Ageing in the Rural North
New Challenges to Ageing in the Rural North

Author: Päivi Naskali

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-08-26

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 3030206033

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This book provides an underexplored view of ageing, one that conceives older people as valuable resources in their communities, as active citizens with both voice, and an agency that includes the capacity for resistance. It acknowledges that becoming old with dignity means also paying attention to caring, good health services and the possibility of good death. The book defines age and ageing as multiple, culturally and historically constructed phenomena that are only loosely connected to the years of one’s life. In focusing on the peripheral North located in the Nordic, Canadian and Russian north, it highlights important questions and viewpoints that can be found and adapted to other rural areas. The book answers the following questions: What is the relevance of legislation and international legal agreements in ensuring the rights of elderly people under political and economic changes? What challenges do geographic isolation, changing age structure, and cultural and ecological transformations pose to possibilities for meeting older people’s needs for engagement in society as well as for their care? As such this book will be of interest to all those working in population aging.

Creative Arts-Based Research in Aged Care
Creative Arts-Based Research in Aged Care

Author: Evonne Miller

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-03-30

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1000374009

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This timely book explores what it is like to live in an aged care home: the expectations that new residents and their families enter with, their relationships with fellow residents and formal caregivers, and how they approach, in different ways, the reality that this place is where they will die. Creative Arts-Based Research in Aged Care draws on an immersive semi-longitudinal four-year study and purposely privileges the voices and perspective of older residents. Using creative arts-based qualitative research methods, specifically participatory photography and research poetry, it demonstrates the experience of contemporary aged care from the perspective of those who matter most: older residents. Divided into three parts covering entering residential aged care, daily life in aged care and dying in aged care, the book stimulates debate and discussion about current practice, and the future of aged care in the context of rapid population ageing and care automation. It is essential reading for all scholars and students working in the fields of gerontology, social work, psychology, design, and nursing, particularly those tasked with redesigning aged care in the twenty-first century.

Care Home Stories
Care Home Stories

Author: Sally Chivers

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2018-03-31

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 3839438055

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Institutional care for seniors offers a cultural repository for fears and hopes about an aging population. Although enormous changes have occurred in how institutional care is structured, the legacies of the poorhouse still persist, creating panicked views of the nursing home as a dreaded fate. The paradoxical nature of a space meant to be both hospital and home offers up critical tensions for examination by age studies scholars. The essays in this book challenge stereotypes of institutional care for older adults, illustrate the changes that have occurred over time, and illuminate the continuities in the stories we tell about nursing homes.

Critical Gerontology for Social Workers
Critical Gerontology for Social Workers

Author: Sandra Torres

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2023-10

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1447360451

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This original collection explores how critical gerontology can make sense of old age inequalities to inform social work research, policy and practice. Engaging with key debates on age-related human rights, the conceptual focus addresses the current challenges and opportunities facing those who work with older people.

Journeys of Life
Journeys of Life

Author: Nathan Carlin

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2024-07-18

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13:

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Trained as a cultural historian, Thomas R. Cole is one of the most influential scholars of his generation, with his work moving beyond and impacting many other fields and disciplines. His work includes The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Cole also published No Color Is My Kind: The Life of Eldrewey Stearns and the Integration of Houston, creating along with the book an accompanying film, The Strange Demise of Jim Crow, which was nominated for a regional Emmy and a National Humanities Medal. Cole created a number of other films as well. In all of his work, there is an emphasis on religion, spirituality, and moral meaning. Cole is also a Jewish spiritual director, and this work has become a major focus for him in retirement. This edited volume engages or responds to Cole’s work, which spans cultural history, oral history, aging studies, film, medical humanities, religious studies, and more. As such, this book is not about Cole per se, but the impact of his ideas and subsequent inspirations.

Perspectives on Wellbeing: Applications from the Field
Perspectives on Wellbeing: Applications from the Field

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-03-07

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 9004507655

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This volume provides an exciting introduction to social wellbeing and different epistemological standpoints. Targeted at stakeholders from different fields to collectively problematise and address marginalised populations’ wellbeing, this volume provides researchers’ and practitioners’ perspectives and applications.