Cathrine Degnen is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Newcastle University

'There is much to be learnt from this in-depth and extensive ethnographic research: about how older people make sense of, and talk about, the situations in which they find themselves in later life.''Degnen’s sensitive and thought-provoking ethnography has a moral as well as analytical valency and makes a valuable contribution to this literature.'Peter Collins, Durham University, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 21 211-243

• 1 Introduction 2 Dodworth: people and place 3 Endings, pasts and futures: temporal complexities and memory talk 4 Monitoring the boundaries of age: intra-generational perspectives on ‘old age’ 5 Reconfiguring normative models of self 6 Narrative forms and shapes 7 Conclusions References

Cathrine Degnen is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Newcastle University

'There is much to be learnt from this in-depth and extensive ethnographic research: about how older people make sense of, and talk about, the situations in which they find themselves in later life.''Degnen’s sensitive and thought-provoking ethnography has a moral as well as analytical valency and makes a valuable contribution to this literature.'Peter Collins, Durham University, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 21 211-243

• 1 Introduction 2 Dodworth: people and place 3 Endings, pasts and futures: temporal complexities and memory talk 4 Monitoring the boundaries of age: intra-generational perspectives on ‘old age’ 5 Reconfiguring normative models of self 6 Narrative forms and shapes 7 Conclusions References

Cathrine Degnen is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Newcastle University

'There is much to be learnt from this in-depth and extensive ethnographic research: about how older people make sense of, and talk about, the situations in which they find themselves in later life.''Degnen’s sensitive and thought-provoking ethnography has a moral as well as analytical valency and makes a valuable contribution to this literature.'Peter Collins, Durham University, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 21 211-243

• 1 Introduction 2 Dodworth: people and place 3 Endings, pasts and futures: temporal complexities and memory talk 4 Monitoring the boundaries of age: intra-generational perspectives on ‘old age’ 5 Reconfiguring normative models of self 6 Narrative forms and shapes 7 Conclusions References