Changing Worlds and the Ageing Subject: Dimensions in the Study of Ageing and Later Life

ISBN-13: 9780815387978 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 230 str.

Britt-Marie Oberg

Opis

Research into ageing and later life has tended to describe old age in relation to society's problems concerning health and social care

Spis treści

Contents: Some implications of population ageing for societies and individuals, Sarah Harper; Analysing age discrimination, John Macnicol; The constructs of generation and cohort in sociological studies of ageing: theoretical conceptualizations and some empirical implications, Gunhild Hammarström; Age, ageing and the life course, Anna-Liisa Närvänen; Old women's ailments in the light of history, Birgitta Od Researching home help services for the elderly in Japan and Sweden: how cultural concepts affect the research design, Els-Marie Anbäcken; The sense of self in Alzheimer's disease: the person's perspective, Phyllis Braudy Harris; The social construction of older women's identities and institutional intervention, Isabella Paoletti; Old people, new and old artefacts - technology for later life, Jan-Erik Hagberg; Biographical and strategic issues in research about ageing, Kees Knipscheer; Index.

O autorze

Britt-Marie Öberg