Negotiating Ageing: Cultural Adaptation to the Prospect of a Long Life

ISBN-13: 9780367431013 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 178 str.

Simon Biggs

Opis

This book evaluates four of the most dominant contemporary discourses on the question of long life, explores key conceptual tools for the reconceptualization of the purpose of long life and examines the implications of cultural adaption for the spheres of policy, business and politics as well as identity, meaning and purpose.

Spis treści

Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: The Promise of a Long Life; Chapter 2: Interrogating Personal and Intergenerational Ageing; Chapter 3: Work to the Rescue?; Chapter 4 Is Work Good or Bad for Health?; Chapter 5: Spirit, Belief and the In-between; Chapter 6: Lifecourse, Gerotranscendence and Wisdom; Chapter 7: The Ageing Body, the Social and the Natural; Chapter 8: Anti Ageing; Chapter 9: Dementia; Chapter 10: Family and Generations; Conclusions; Index

O autorze

Simon Biggs, PhD. Professor of Gerontology & Social Policy
School of Social & Political Sciences, Melbourne University, Australia.