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Critical Gerontology Comes of Age

Author : Chris Wellin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351806459
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Critical Gerontology Comes of Age written by Chris Wellin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Gerontology Comes of Age reflects on how baby boomers, caretakers, and health professionals are perceiving and adapting to historical, social, political, and cultural changes that call into question prior assumptions about aging and life progression. Through an exploration of earlier and later-life stages and the dynamic changes in intergenerational relations, chapter authors reexamine the research, methods, and scope of critical gerontology, a multidisciplinary field that speaks to the experiences of life in the 21st century. Topics include Medicare, privatization of home care, incarceration, outreach to LGTBQ elders, migration, and chronic illness. Grounded in innovative research and case studies, this volume reflects multiple perspectives and is accessible to lay readers, advanced undergraduates and graduate students, and professionals in many fields.

Voices and Visions of Aging

Author : Robert Kastenbaum, PhD
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0826197914
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Voices and Visions of Aging written by Robert Kastenbaum, PhD and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992-11-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical gerontology requires more than a simple elaboration of existing humanistic scholarship on aging. This exceptional new work introduces a basis for genuine dialogue across humanistic, scientific, and professional disciplines. Among the topics addressed are industrial employment, retirement, life styles of older women, and biological research. From philosophical reflections on the ìthird ageî to critical perspectives on institutional adaptations to an aging society, this book presents a wide range of provocative thought.

Critical Gerontology

Author : Meredith Minkler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780895031846
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Critical Gerontology written by Meredith Minkler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1999 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This refreshing book uses broad political and moral economy perspectives to explore the intersections of race, class, gender and aging and how these help determine the experience of aging and growing old. The twenty chapter volume includes new contributions by many of the top names in critical gerontology. Both political and economic factors, and those shared norms about fairness and obligation that help shape our aging policies, are examined in relation to a wide range of contemporary issues in gerontology.

The Need for Theory

Author : Simon Biggs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351863274
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book The Need for Theory written by Simon Biggs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Need for Theory" speaks to the burgeoning need for critical thinking in social gerontology. The editors have brought together some of the foremost contributors to theoretical advances in the field. This volume incorporates state-of-the-art theorizing with a focus on selected topical areas facing gerontologists around the world. Using their keen insights into substantive issues, the contributors examine personal and structural changes affecting individuals over the life course. Extolling the need for theory is not enough; the contributors focus their insights on a panoply of substantive issues, linking the personal with the political and with the structural parameters that shape the process of aging, no matter where it occurs.

Critical perspectives on ageing societies

Author : Bernard, Miriam
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 184742239X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Critical perspectives on ageing societies written by Bernard, Miriam and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2007-05-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book brings together some of the best known international scholars working within a critical gerontology perspective. Together, they review and update our understanding of how the field has developed over the last twenty-five years and, through the lens of 'passionate scholarship', provide a challenging assessment of the complex practical and ethical issues facing older people, and those who conduct research on ageing, in the 21st century. The contributions extend the critical gerontological approach conceptually, methodologically and practically. They offer close and scholarly analysis of policies affecting the lives of older people and provide insights into why research is done in particular ways. Special attention is paid to feminist contributions and new approaches to working in partnership with older people; age discrimination and ageism; the impact of neo-liberal policies and the passage of various human rights instruments; the re-medicalisation of later life; the participation of older people in research; and justice between generations. The editors and contributors offer suggestions for promoting change, and an exciting set of visions and perspectives for the renewal and development of critical gerontology in the years ahead. Critical Perspectives on Ageing Societies will be a valuable resource for all students, academics and practitioners interested in ageing and the life course.

Critical Approaches to Ageing and Later Life

Author : Anne Jamieson
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335231918
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Critical Approaches to Ageing and Later Life written by Anne Jamieson and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 1997-08-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are individuals and society ageing towards the end of the twentieth century? How can different disciplines help us to understand the ageing process? What are the key developments in postmodern thought and critical studies in relation to ageing and later life? In answer to these questions, the editors of this volume have brought together some of the leading figures in the field. Gathered together for the first time in a single volume, the authors discuss the latest theoretical developments in the international field of ageing. Drawing on research from the USA and UK, the book is strongly multi-disciplinary in content with chapters from both social sciences and humanities. The book provides a critical approach to our understanding of the experience of ageing and later life. It has been written for advanced students of gerontology and those with an interest in ageing and later life, but it is also relevant to policy makers and practitioners in the field. Key features: First time work from the USA and UK has been available in one volume Wide coverage of the latest trends and theoretical approaches in gerontology Issues addressed from a range of disciplines - unusual combination of humanities and social science in one volume Written by leading experts in the field.

Social Policy and Aging

Author : Carroll L. Estes
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780803973473
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (734 download)

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Download or read book Social Policy and Aging written by Carroll L. Estes and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001-03-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book provides a comprehensive treatment of the political economy of aging. From the founder and key thinker in the field comes a work that aims to contribute to the understanding of old age and aging in the context of problems and issues of the larger social order in America. Since Carroll Estes' first writing on the political economy of aging in 1979, there has been growing recognition and incorporation of her critical perspective as one of the major paradigms in the field of aging. The only comprehensive book-length treatment of the subject, Social Policy and Aging addresses the globalization of capital and developments in health care restructuring. Combining social gerontological theory and major theoretical advances in work on the welfare state, this text keeps readers abreast of the new development within the discipline. Students and researchers alike will appreciate this critical perspective, widely acknowledged as one of the major paradigms in the field of aging. [Ed.]

Ageing, meaning and social structure

Author : Baars, Jan
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447320433
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Ageing, meaning and social structure written by Baars, Jan and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ageing, meaning and social structure is a unique book advancing critical discourse in gerontology and makes a major contribution to understanding key social and ethical dilemmas facing ageing societies. It confronts and integrates approaches that have been relatively isolated from each other, and interrelates two major streams of thought within critical gerontology: analyses of structural issues in the context of political economy and humanistic perspectives on issues of existential meaning. The chapters, from a wide range of contributors, focus on major issues in ageing such as autonomy, agency, frailty, lifestyle, social isolation, dementia and professional challenges in social work and participatory research. This volume should be valuable reading for scholars and graduate students in gerontology and humanistic studies, as well as for policy makers and practitioners working in the field of ageing.

Aging

Author : Harry R. Moody
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506327990
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Aging written by Harry R. Moody and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting current research in an innovative text-reader format, Aging: Concepts and Controversies, Ninth Edition encourages students to become involved and take an informed stand on the major aging issues we face as a society. Not simply a summary of research literature, Harry R. Moody and Jennifer R. Sasser’s text focuses on controversies and questions, rather than on assimilating facts or arriving at a single "correct" view about aging and older people. Drawing on their extensive expertise, the authors first provide an overview of aging in three domains: aging over the life course, health care, and the socioeconomic aspects of aging. Each section is followed by a series of edited readings, offering different perspectives from experts and specialists on that subject. New readings focus on whether current federal spending on the elderly is sustainable and fair to other groups, how older consumers are reshaping the business landscape, and the challenges of marketing and selling to customers 60 and over. More emphasis is placed on how social class and inequality earlier in life can shape our final years and the number of older Americans living in poverty. The section on Aging and Health Care has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest data about chronic diseases that affect the elderly, government spending on health care, and policy changes to programs like Medicaid and Medicare. The section on the Social and Economic Outlook for an Aging Society gives the most current picture of the racial and ethnic diversity of older Americans, their participation in the labor force, and their income and wealth.

Critical Gerontology for Social Workers

Author : Sandra Torres
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447360451
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Critical Gerontology for Social Workers written by Sandra Torres and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original collection explores how critical gerontology can make sense of old age inequalities to inform social work research, policy and practice. Engaging with key debates on age-related human rights, the conceptual focus addresses the current challenges and opportunities facing those who work with older people.

Aging A-Z

Author : Carroll L. Estes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429619588
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Aging A-Z written by Carroll L. Estes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative, intellectually charged treatise serves as a concise introduction to emancipatory gerontology, examining multiple dimensions of persistent and hotly debated topics around aging, the life course, the roles of power, politics and partisanship, culture, economics, and communications. Critical perspectives are presented as definitions for reader understanding, with links to concepts of identity, knowledge construction, social networks, social movements, and inequalities. With today’s intensifying concentration of wealth and corporatization, precarity is the fate for growing numbers of the world’s population. Intersectionality as an analytic concept offers a new appreciation of how social advantage and disadvantage accumulate, and how constructions of race, ethnicity, class, ability, and gender influence aging. The book’s entries offer a bibliographic compendium, crediting the salience of early pioneering theorists and locating these within the cutting-edge of research (social, behavioral, policy, and gene–environment sciences) that currently advances our understandings of human development, trauma, and resilience. Accompanying these foundations are theories of resistance for advancing human rights and the dignity of marginalized populations.

Successful Aging

Author : John Wallis Rowe
Publisher : Random House Large Print Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780375701795
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Successful Aging written by John Wallis Rowe and published by Random House Large Print Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the results of the MacArthur Foundation Study of Aging in America, which show how to maintain optimum physical and mental strength throughout later life.

Perspectives and Theories of Social Innovation for Ageing Population

Author : Andrzej Klimczuk
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889636208
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives and Theories of Social Innovation for Ageing Population written by Andrzej Klimczuk and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aging, Globalization, and Inequality

Author : Jan Baars
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Aging, Globalization, and Inequality written by Jan Baars and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the variety of ways in which age and ageing are socially constructed, and the extent to which growing old is being transformed through processes associated with globalisation. This book provides the basis for a modern type of critical gerontology relevant to the twenty-first century.

The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing

Author : Malcolm L. Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing written by Malcolm L. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

The Evolution of British Gerontology

Author : Bernard, Miriam
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447343123
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of British Gerontology written by Bernard, Miriam and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half a century of UK gerontology research, theory, policy and practice are under the spotlight in this landmark critical review of the subject that places the country’s achievements in an international context. Drawing on the archives of the British Society of Gerontology and interviews with dozens of the most influential figures in the field, it provides a comprehensive picture of key developments and issues and looks to the future to plot new directions in thinking. This is the story of the remarkable progress of gerontology, told through the eyes of those who have led it.

Narrative Imagination and Everyday Life

Author : Molly Andrews
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019981239X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Narrative Imagination and Everyday Life written by Molly Andrews and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at how stories & imagination come together in our daily lives, influencing not only our thoughts about what we see and do, but also our contemplation of what is possible and what our limitations are.