Intimacy and Ageing: New Relationships in Later Life

ISBN-13: 9781447326496 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 224 str.

Torbjorn Bildtgard; Peter A-Berg

Opis

As people live longer around the world, remaining healthy into old age, the phenomenon of new intimate relationships in later life is rapidly growing. This book, part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, looks closely at how these relationships have developed within the current cohort of elderly, with particular attention to the ways in which new relationships at older ages are simultaneously rooted in older cultures of intimacy and partake in changes in social relations and behavior that have emerged more recently. What do new intimate relationships offer older men and women, and what do they expect or hope for from them?

Spis treści

Introduction; Intimacy and ageing in late modernity; The changing landscape of intimacy in later life; From marriage to alternative union forms; A life of relationships; Attitudes towards new romantic relationships; Initiation and development of new romantic relationships; A new partner as a resource for social support; Consequences for social network and support structures; Sex in an ideology of love; Time as a structuring condition for new intimate relationships in later life; Discussion; Methodological Appendix.