Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations – serie

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Collaborative Happiness
Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities
AvCatherine Kingfisher
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
382 kr
Skickas
Understudied relative to other forms of intentional community, and under-recognized in policy-making circles, urban cohousing communities situate wellbeing as simultaneously social and subjective, while catering for groups of people so diverse in age. Collaborative Happiness looks at two such urban cohousing communities: Kankanmori, in Tokyo; and Quayside Village, in Vancouver. In expanding beyond mainstream approaches to happiness focused exclusively on the individual, Quayside Village and Kankanmori provide an alternative model for how to understand and practice the good life in an increasingly urbanized world marked by crisis of both social and environmental sustainability.
Transitions and Transformations
Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course
AvCaitrin Lynch,Jason Danely
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
1 861 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses. It presents a broad range of ethnographic work, introducing a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches to studying life-course transitions in conjunction with broader sociocultural transformations. Through detailed accounts, in such diverse settings as nursing homes in Sri Lanka, a factory in Massachusetts, cemeteries in Japan and clinics in Mexico, the authors explore not simply our understandings of growing older, but the interweaving of individual maturity and intergenerational relationships, social and economic institutions, and intimate experiences of gender, identity, and the body.
Unforgotten
Love and the Culture of Dementia Care in India
AvBianca Brijnath
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
1 861 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
As life expectancy increases in India, the number of people living with dementia will also rise. Yet little is known about how people in India cope with dementia, how relationships and identities change through illness and loss. In addressing this question, this book offers a rich ethnographic account of how middle-class families in urban India care for their relatives with dementia. From the husband who wakes up at 3 am to feed his wife ice-cream to the daughters who gave up employment for seven years to care for their mother with dementia, this book illuminates the local idioms on dementia and aging, the personal experience of care-giving, the functioning of stigma in daily life, and the social and cultural barriers in accessing support.
Aging and the Digital Life Course
AvDavid Prendergast,Chiara Garattini
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
1 861 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Across the life course, new forms of community, ways of keeping in contact, and practices for engaging in work, healthcare, retail, learning and leisure are evolving rapidly. Breaking new ground in the study of technology and aging, this book examines how developments in smart phones, the internet, cloud computing, and online social networking are redefining experiences and expectations around growing older in the twenty-first century. Drawing on contributions from leading commentators and researchers across the world, this book explores key themes such as caregiving, the use of social media, robotics, chronic disease and dementia management, gaming, migration, and data inheritance, to name a few.
Transitions and Transformations
Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course
AvCaitrin Lynch,Jason Danely
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
453 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses. It presents a broad range of ethnographic work, introducing a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches to studying life-course transitions in conjunction with broader sociocultural transformations. Through detailed accounts, in such diverse settings as nursing homes in Sri Lanka, a factory in Massachusetts, cemeteries in Japan and clinics in Mexico, the authors explore not simply our understandings of growing older, but the interweaving of individual maturity and intergenerational relationships, social and economic institutions, and intimate experiences of gender, identity, and the body.
Aging and the Digital Life Course
AvDavid Prendergast,Chiara Garattini
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
526 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Across the life course, new forms of community, ways of keeping in contact, and practices for engaging in work, healthcare, retail, learning and leisure are evolving rapidly. Breaking new ground in the study of technology and aging, this book examines how developments in smart phones, the internet, cloud computing, and online social networking are redefining experiences and expectations around growing older in the twenty-first century. Drawing on contributions from leading commentators and researchers across the world, this book explores key themes such as caregiving, the use of social media, robotics, chronic disease and dementia management, gaming, migration, and data inheritance, to name a few.
Global Age-Friendly Community Movement
A Critical Appraisal
AvPhilip B. Stafford
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
1 916 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The age-friendly community movement is a global phenomenon, currently growing with the support of the WHO and multiple international and national organizations in the field of aging. Drawing on an extensive collection of international case studies, this volume provides an introduction to the movement. The contributors – both researchers and practitioners – touch on a number of current tensions and issues in the movement and offer a wide-ranging set of recommendations for advancing age-friendly community development. The book concludes with a call for a radical transformation of a medical and lifestyle model of aging into a relational model of health and social/individual wellbeing.
Care across Distance
Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration
AvAzra Hromadžić,Monika Palmberger
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
1 916 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
World-wide migration has an unsettling effect on social structures, especially on aging populations and eldercare. This volume investigates how taken-for-granted roles are challenged, intergenerational relationships transformed, economic ties recalibrated, technological innovations utilized, and spiritual relations pursued and desired, and asks what it means to care at a distance and to age abroad. What it does show is that trans-nationalization of care produces unprecedented convergences of people, objects and spaces that challenge our assumptions about the who, how, and where of care.
Beyond Filial Piety
Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies
AvJeanne Shea,Katrina Moorem. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
2 117 kr
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Known for a tradition of Confucian filial piety, East Asian societies have some of the oldest and most rapidly aging populations on earth. Today these societies are experiencing unprecedented social challenges to the filial tradition of adult children caring for aging parents at home. Marshalling mixed methods data, this volume explores the complexities of aging and caregiving in contemporary East Asia. Questioning romantic visions of a senior’s paradise, chapters examine emerging cultural meanings of and social responses to population aging, including caregiving both for and by the elderly. Themes include traditional ideals versus contemporary realities, the role of the state, patterns of familial and non-familial care, social stratification, and intersections of caregiving and death. Drawing on ethnographic, demographic, policy, archival, and media data, the authors trace both common patterns and diverging trends across China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, and Korea.
Global Age-Friendly Community Movement
A Critical Appraisal
AvPhilip B. Stafford
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
526 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The age-friendly community movement is a global phenomenon, currently growing with the support of the WHO and multiple international and national organizations in the field of aging. Drawing on an extensive collection of international case studies, this volume provides an introduction to the movement. The contributors – both researchers and practitioners – touch on a number of current tensions and issues in the movement and offer a wide-ranging set of recommendations for advancing age-friendly community development. The book concludes with a call for a radical transformation of a medical and lifestyle model of aging into a relational model of health and social/individual wellbeing.
Preventing Dementia?
Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age
AvAnnette Leibing,Silke Schicktanz
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
1 695 kr
Skickas
The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible. Although encouraging and providing hope against this feared condition, this claim is open to scrutiny. This volume looks at how this new conceptualization ignores many of the factors which influence a dementia sufferers’ prognosis, including their history with education, food and exercise as well as their living in different epistemic cultures. The central aim is to question the concept of prevention and analyze its impact on aging people and aging societies.
Collaborative Happiness
Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities
AvCatherine Kingfisher
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
1 235 kr
Skickas
Understudied relative to other forms of intentional community, and under-recognized in policy-making circles, urban cohousing communities situate wellbeing as simultaneously social and subjective, while catering for groups of people so diverse in age. Collaborative Happiness looks at two such urban cohousing communities: Kankanmori, in Tokyo; and Quayside Village, in Vancouver. In expanding beyond mainstream approaches to happiness focused exclusively on the individual, Quayside Village and Kankanmori provide an alternative model for how to understand and practice the good life in an increasingly urbanized world marked by crisis of both social and environmental sustainability.
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Care across Distance
Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration
AvAzra Hromadžić,Monika Palmberger
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
440 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
World-wide migration has an unsettling effect on social structures, especially on aging populations and eldercare. This volume investigates how taken-for-granted roles are challenged, intergenerational relationships transformed, economic ties recalibrated, technological innovations utilized, and spiritual relations pursued and desired, and asks what it means to care at a distance and to age abroad. What it does show is that trans-nationalization of care produces unprecedented convergences of people, objects and spaces that challenge our assumptions about the who, how, and where of care.
Beyond Filial Piety
Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies
AvJeanne Shea,Katrina Moorem. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
453 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Known for a tradition of Confucian filial piety, East Asian societies have some of the oldest and most rapidly aging populations on earth. Today these societies are experiencing unprecedented social challenges to the filial tradition of adult children caring for aging parents at home. Marshalling mixed methods data, this volume explores the complexities of aging and caregiving in contemporary East Asia. Questioning romantic visions of a senior’s paradise, chapters examine emerging cultural meanings of and social responses to population aging, including caregiving both for and by the elderly. Themes include traditional ideals versus contemporary realities, the role of the state, patterns of familial and non-familial care, social stratification, and intersections of caregiving and death. Drawing on ethnographic, demographic, policy, archival, and media data, the authors trace both common patterns and diverging trends across China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, and Korea.
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At Home in a Nursing Home
An Ethnography of Movement and Care in Australia
AvAngela Rong Yang Zhang
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
1 808 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Focusing on contemporary ideas about how aged care is provided, this book poses the question: How can people who are aged and frail live out the final phase of their lives with dignity? In seeking answers, the author examines what it means to be ‘at home’ in residential care in a novel and compassionate way. In an ethnographic study of how elderly residents can be given the right care, this book provides a new route into the bodily realities of ageing. It is a vital contribution to the search for alternative approaches to aged care provision.
Preventing Dementia?
Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age
AvAnnette Leibing,Silke Schicktanz
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
298 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible. Although encouraging and providing hope against this feared condition, this claim is open to scrutiny. This volume looks at how this new conceptualization ignores many of the factors which influence a dementia sufferers’ prognosis, including their history with education, food and exercise as well as their living in different epistemic cultures. The central aim is to question the concept of prevention and analyze its impact on aging people and aging societies.
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Voices of Long-Term Care Workers
Elder Care in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond
AvAndrea Freidus,Dena Shenk
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
1 965 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
There were many challenges, successes, and concerns in providing long-term care to older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking at central North Carolina, the authors highlight the implications of providing long-term care to older Americans, with an emphasis on the importance of communication, resilience of staff, and value of human infrastructure.Based on extensive interviews, this collection of essays reflects on the participants’ individual experiences and represents the voices of staff and caregivers working in long-term residential care communities, in-home and community-based programs, as well as regional aging service providers and advocates.
From Legacies to Futures
The Lifeworlds of Older Adults in Europe
AvKatja Seidel,David Prendergastm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
1 965 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Older adults want to exercise a sense of control over their relationships, structures and surroundings as they navigate the later life course. Through detailed ethnographic case studies, this book examines the dynamic lifeworlds of a hundred and seven community-dwelling older adults in Europe before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the importance of agency, the frictions between self-perceptions of age and outside impositions and the need to deconstruct old age as a homogenising category. These insights challenge simple narratives of older persons as social burdens by highlighting the complex roles they fill in family, neighbourhood and communities.
At Home in a Nursing Home
An Ethnography of Movement and Care in Australia
AvAngela Rong Yang Zhang
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
320 kr
Kommande
Focusing on contemporary ideas about how aged care is provided, this book poses the question: How can people who are aged and frail live out the final phase of their lives with dignity? In seeking answers, the author examines what it means to be ‘at home’ in residential care in a novel and compassionate way. In an ethnographic study of how elderly residents can be given the right care, this book provides a new route into the bodily realities of ageing. It is a vital contribution to the search for alternative approaches to aged care provision.
Voices of Long-Term Care Workers
Elder Care in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond
AvAndrea Freidus,Dena Shenk
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
382 kr
Kommande
There were many challenges, successes, and concerns in providing long-term care to older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking at central North Carolina, the authors highlight the implications of providing long-term care to older Americans, with an emphasis on the importance of communication, resilience of staff, and value of human infrastructure.Based on extensive interviews, this collection of essays reflects on the participants’ individual experiences and represents the voices of staff and caregivers working in long-term residential care communities, in-home and community-based programs, as well as regional aging service providers and advocates.
Anthropology of Retirement
Life Beyond Work
AvPauline Garvey,Daniel Miller
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
1 965 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
As a result of growing life expectancy, the period of retirement is likely to surpass the entire period of working life in many countries. There is little acknowledgement that retirement is not an event but an extended period of life that unfolds over several decades. Experiences vary considerably across the globe, from areas where most people cannot afford to retire to places where a multitude of new possibilities are being developed for retirees. This book is an anthropological approach to consider life beyond retirement in a wide range of contexts and consequences.

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Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations – serie

Collaborative Happiness

Transitions and Transformations

Unforgotten

Aging and the Digital Life Course

Transitions and Transformations

Aging and the Digital Life Course

Global Age-Friendly Community Movement

Care across Distance

Beyond Filial Piety

Global Age-Friendly Community Movement

Preventing Dementia?

Collaborative Happiness

Care across Distance

Beyond Filial Piety

At Home in a Nursing Home

Preventing Dementia?

Voices of Long-Term Care Workers

From Legacies to Futures

At Home in a Nursing Home

Voices of Long-Term Care Workers

Anthropology of Retirement

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