Acculturating Age Approaches To Cultural Gerontology

Author : Brian J. Worsfold
Publisher : Universitat de Lleida
ISBN 13 : 8484094928
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acculturating Age: Approaches to Cultural Gerontology written by Brian J. Worsfold and published by Universitat de Lleida. This book was released on 2011 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acculturating refers to the interchange of patterns of behaviour, perceptions and ideas between groups of individuals who have different cultural backgrounds. This book, which is the result of collaboration between specialists from different disciplines from around the world, allows the comparison of systems of dependency, mediation skills, empathy and social understanding and cultural attitudes towards people who experience the stages of aging.

Author : Andrea Hülsen-Esch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110683113
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Perspectives on Aging written by Andrea Hülsen-Esch and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current demographic developments and change due to long life expectancies, low birth rates, changing family structures, and economic and political crises causing migration and flight are having a significant impact on intergenerational relationships, the social welfare system, the job market and what elderly people (can) expect from their retirement and environment. The socio-political relevance of the categories of ‘age’ and ‘ageing’ have been increasing and gaining much attention within different scholarly fields. However, none of the efforts to identify age-related diseases or the processes of ageing in order to develop suitable strategies for prevention and therapy have had any effect on the fact that attitudes against the elderly are based on patterns that are determined by parameters that or not biological or sociological: age(ing) is also a cultural fact. This book reveals the importance of cultural factors in order to build a framework for analyzing and understanding cultural constructions of ageing, bringing together scholarly discourses from the arts and humanities as well as social, medical and psychological fields of study. The contributions pave the way for new strategies of caring for elderly people.

Author : Julia Twigg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136221034
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology written by Julia Twigg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Later years are changing under the impact of demographic, social and cultural shifts. No longer confined to the sphere of social welfare, they are now studied within a wider cultural framework that encompasses new experiences and new modes of being. Drawing on influences from the arts and humanities, and deploying diverse methodologies – visual, literary, spatial – and theoretical perspectives Cultural Gerontology has brought new aspects of later life into view. This major new publication draws together these currents including: Theory and Methods; Embodiment; Identities and Social Relationships; Consumption and Leisure; and Time and Space. Based on specially commissioned chapters by leading international authors, the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology will provide concise authoritative reviews of the key debates and themes shaping this exciting new field.

Author : Jason L. Powell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781628089608
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aging, Culture and Society written by Jason L. Powell and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines aging and old age from a range of social and cultural approaches. The book begins by examining the emergence of mainstream sociological theories of aging that attempt to go beyond the tradition of bio-medical fatalism. It moves its attention to a cultural analysis of aging through an examination of embodiment. It concludes by arguing for a narrative gerontology that incorporates some of the methodological considerations required to understand and investigate an aging identity in contemporary culture.

Author : David-Jack Fletcher
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811600139
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Age as Disease written by David-Jack Fletcher and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-21 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Age as Disease explores the foundations of gerontology as a discipline to examine the ways contemporary society constructs old age as a disease-state. Framed throughout as ‘gerontological hygeine’, this book examines contemporary regimes, strategies and treatment protocols deployed throughout Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The book deploys critical cultural theories such as biopolitics, somatechnics, ethics, and governmentality to examine how anti-aging technologies operate to problematise the aging body as always-already diseased, and how these come to constitute a movement of abolition, named here as ‘gerontological hygiene’.

Author : Christine L. Fry
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aging in Culture and Society written by Christine L. Fry and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1980 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life and accomplishments of the former slave who became a scientist and devoted his career to helping the South improve its agriculture.

Author : Antje Kampf
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113617334X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aging Men, Masculinities and Modern Medicine written by Antje Kampf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aging Men, Masculinities and Modern Medicine explores the multiple socio-historical contexts surrounding men’s aging bodies in modern medicine from a global perspective. The first of its kind, it investigates the interrelated aspects of aging, masculinities and biomedicine, allowing for a timely reconsideration of the conceptualisation of aging men within the recent explosion of social science studies on men’s health and biotechnologies including anti-aging perspectives. This book discusses both healthy and diseased states of aging men in medical practices, bringing together theoretical and empirical conceptualisations. Divided into four parts it covers: Historical epistemology of aging, bodies and masculinity and the way in which the social sciences have theorised the aging body and gender. Material practices and processes by which biotechnology, medical assemblages and men’s aging bodies relate to concepts of health and illness. Aging experience and its impact upon male sexuality and identity. The importance of men’s roles and identities in care-giving situations and medical practices. Highlighting how aging men’s bodies serve as trajectories for understanding wider issues of masculinity, and the way in which men’s social status and men’s roles are made in medical cultures, this innovative volume offers a multidisciplinary dialogue between sociology of health and illness, anthropology of the body and gender studies.

Author : Andrea Hülsen-Esch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783110682977
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Perspectives on Aging written by Andrea Hülsen-Esch and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current demographic developments and change due to long life expectancies, low birth rates, changing family structures, and economic and political crises causing migration and flight are having a significant impact on intergenerational relationships, the social welfare system, the job market and what elderly people (can) expect from their retirement and environment. The socio-political relevance of the categories of 'age' and 'ageing' have been increasing and gaining much attention within different scholarly fields. However, none of the efforts to identify age-related diseases or the processes of ageing in order to develop suitable strategies for prevention and therapy have had any effect on the fact that attitudes against the elderly are based on patterns that are determined by parameters that or not biological or sociological: age(ing) is also a cultural fact. This book reveals the importance of cultural factors in order to build a framework for analyzing and understanding cultural constructions of ageing, bringing together scholarly discourses from the arts and humanities as well as social, medical and psychological fields of study. The contributions pave the way for new strategies of caring for elderly people.

Author : Carmen Concilio
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839444268
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Ageing written by Carmen Concilio and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do literary texts tell us about growing old? The essays in this volume introduce and explore representations of ageing and old age in canonical works of English and postcolonial literature. The contributors examine texts by William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, Julian Barnes, Thomas Kinsella, Seamus Heaney, J.M. Coetzee, Alice Munro, Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace and, together with a medical study, they suggest solutions to the challenges arising from the current demographic change brought about by ageing Western populations.

Author : E Percil Stanford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351853503
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diversity written by E Percil Stanford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing ideas and perspectives, this monograph examines the evolutionary and future considerations for diversity in aging.