Images Of Aging

Author : Mike Featherstone,Andrew Wernick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134831074

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We all have a finite life-span. We are born, we get old and we die. Given the universiality of the ageing process, it is remarkable that there is almost a complete absence of study of culture and self-image of the middle aged and old. Images of Ageing: Cultural Representations of Later Life changes this. The contributors discuss images of ageing which have come to circulate in the advanced industrial societies today. They address themes such as: body and self image in everyday interaction; experience and identity on old age; advertising and consumer culture images of the elderly; images of ageing used by Government agencies in health education campaigns; the diversity of historical representations of the elderly; gender images of ageing; images of senility and second childhood; images of health, illness and death.

Author : Mike Featherstone,Andrew Wernick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 9781134831081

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The contributors in this book discuss images of aging which have come to circulate in the advanced industrial societies today. They address such themes as gender images of aging, images of health, illness and death.

Author : Amir Cohen-Shalev
Publisher : Apollo Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 184519280X

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Visions of Aging by Amir Cohen-Shalev Pdf

The interface of old age and cinema provides a fascinating yet uncharted territory in the humanities and social sciences. In Visions of Aging, two central perspectives are explored: movies on old age by old filmmakers and movies on old age by younger artists. The first perspective focuses on the cinematic representation of aging from within, whereas the second examines the ways aging is viewed from the outside. The distinction is based on the schism between the phenomenology of aging and its social representation. The one hinges on intrinsic qualities of "old age style" or "late style" while the second addresses attitudes towards old age in general, as well as towards aging artists and the reception (or rejection) of their late films. The author combines these general perspectives as they shift between text and context, beginning with aging from the outside in order to introduce the semantics and pragmatics of the context (reception and filmmaking stylistic change; midlife images of old age) and continuing into the world of aging as cinematically represented from within by old filmmakers - an often idiosyncratic, metaphysical, and sometimes unapproachable world. By providing a roadmap that charts previous scholarly paths of inquiry, this book offers a panoramic view of the direction of this new field of cinematic gerontology, and is essential reading for students and scholars of cinema, humanistic gerontology, psychology of art, the sociology of old age, and popular culture.

Author : Denise Boomkens
Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781784727901

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And Bloom The Art of Aging Unapologetically by Denise Boomkens Pdf

*** 'Are you aging fabulously? Here's how.' Anna Murphy, The Times 'A lovely book celebrating female beauty over 40.' Top Sante 'You become what you see. What you see determines what you believe - and the most powerful way of inspiring people is with images. My goal with AndBloom is to motivate women to embrace life without fear. To provide examples of women between the age of 40 and, currently, 100, so that any woman can open this book and see themselves recognized.' Denise Boomkens launched the AndBloom project on Instagram in 2018, to create a 'happy place for women over 40' - a community where women can be themselves and where aging is celebrated instead of feared. In this, her first book, she shares her own experiences of aging and brings together portraits and interviews with more than 100 extraordinary 'ordinary' women to create both a gloriously illustrated celebration of female beauty over 40 and an empowering handbook to aging happily.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Aged in advertising
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050291108

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The Image of Aging in Media and Marketing by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging Pdf

Author : Andrew Wernick,Mike Featherstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:797448501

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Images of Aging by Andrew Wernick,Mike Featherstone Pdf

Author : Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476675374

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Elder Horror by Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper Pdf

As baby boomers gray, cinematic depictions of aging and the aged are on the rise. In the horror genre, fears of growing old take on fantastic proportions. Elderly characters are portrayed as either eccentric harbingers of doom--the crone who stops at nothing to restore her youth, the ancient ancestor who haunts the living--or as frail victims. This collection of new essays explores how various filmic portrayals of aging, as an inescapable horror destined to overtake us all, reflect our complex attitudes toward growing old, along with its social, psychological and economic consequences.

Author : Christopher A. Faircloth
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780759102361

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Aging Bodies by Christopher A. Faircloth Pdf

Western thought traditionally divides the human being into a body-mind dualism, a divide realized in the divergent research fields of geriatrics, which examines the physical body, and gerontology, which focuses on the psychological and social aspects of aging.

Author : Richard Schulz
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0826148433

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The Encyclopedia of Aging by Richard Schulz Pdf

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Author : Irina Catrinel Crăciun
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030142551

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Positive Aging and Precarity by Irina Catrinel Crăciun Pdf

This book explores positive aging through the lens of precarity, aiming to ground positive aging theories in current social contexts. In recent years, research on aging has been branded by growing disagreements between supporters of the successful aging model and critical gerontologists who highlight the widening inequalities, disadvantages and precarity that characterize old age. This book comes to fill a gap in knowledge by offering an alternative view on positive aging, informed by precarity and its impact on projections concerning aging. The first part of the book places aging in broader theoretical and empirical context, exploring the complex links between views on aging, successful aging theories, policy and social reality. The second part uses results from a qualitative research conducted in Germany to illustrate the dissonance between successful aging ideals and both negative and positive views on aging as well as aging preparation strategies inspired by precarity. Findings from this section provide a solid starting point for comparisons with countries that are both similar and different from Germany in terms of welfare regimes and aging policies. The final part of the book discusses the psychological implications of these findings within and beyond the German case study and outlines potential solutions for practice. This book provides health psychologists, gerontologists, sociologists, social workers, health professionals as well as students and aging individuals themselves with better understanding of the meaning of aging in precarious times and builds confidence about aging well despite precarity.

Author : V. Ylänne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137009340

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Representing Ageing by V. Ylänne Pdf

This collection critically examines twenty-first century representations of ageing, focusing on various media images and discourses as well as individuals' own experiences and self-presentations of ageing, drawing on innovative new empirical data.

Author : Linda S. Noelker, PhD,Kenneth Rockwood, MD, FRCPC,Richard L. Sprott, Ph.D.
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 1444 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780826148445

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The Encyclopedia of Aging by Linda S. Noelker, PhD,Kenneth Rockwood, MD, FRCPC,Richard L. Sprott, Ph.D. Pdf

A COMPREHENSIVE RESOURCE ON GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS Since its inception in 1987, The Encyclopedia of Aging has proven to be the definitive resource for scholars and students across the burgeoning and increasingly interdisciplinary fields of gerontology and geriatrics. Like its three esteemed predecessors, the fourth edition contains concise, readable explorations of hundreds of terms, concepts, and issues related to the lives of older adults, as well as timely coverage of the many new programs and services for the elderly. Updated, under the distinguished stewardship of editor-in-chief Richard Schulz to reflect the infusion of new information across the scientific disciplines, this new edition brings readers up-to-the-moment significant advances in biology, physiology, genetics, medicine, psychology, nursing, social services, sociology, economics, technology, and political science. While retaining the format and standard of excellence that marked the first three editions, the fourth edition encompasses a wealth of new information from the social and health sciences. It contains the most current bibliography of an expanding literature, an exhaustive index, and extensive cross references. This much anticipated update of the field's most authoritative resource will take its place as an indispensable reference for specialists and non-specialists across a broad range of disciplines that now comprise the field of aging. SPRINGER--SERVING THE HEALTHCARE AND HELPING PROFESSIONS FOR MORE THAN 55 YEARS

Author : Tai-hoon Kim,Hojjat Adeli,Carlos Ramos,Byeong-Ho Kang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642271823

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Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition by Tai-hoon Kim,Hojjat Adeli,Carlos Ramos,Byeong-Ho Kang Pdf

This book comprises selected papers of the International Conference on Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, SIP 2011, held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, FGIT 2011, in Conjunction with GDC 2011, in Conjunction with GDC 2011, Jeju Island, Korea, in December 2011. The papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions and focus on the various aspects of signal processing, image processing and pattern recognition.

Author : Jon F. Nussbaum,Justine Coupland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135639822

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Handbook of Communication and Aging Research by Jon F. Nussbaum,Justine Coupland Pdf

This second edition of the Handbook of Communication and Aging Research captures the ever-changing and expanding domain of aging research. Since it was first recognized that there is more to social aging than demography, gerontology has needed a communication perspective. Like the first edition, this handbook sets out to demonstrate that aging is not only an individual process but an interactive one. The study of communication can lead to an understanding of what it means to grow old. We may age physiologically and chronologically, but our social aging--how we behave as social actors toward others, and even how we align ourselves with or come to understand the signs of difference or change as we age--are phenomena achieved primarily through communication experiences. Synthesizing the vast amount of research that has been published on communication and aging in numerous international outlets over the last three decades, the book's contributors include scholars from North America and the United Kingdom who are active researchers in the perspectives covered in their particular chapter. Many of the chapters work to deny earlier images of aging as involving normative decrement to provide a picture of aging as a process of development involving positive choices and providing new opportunities. A recuring theme in many chapters is that of the heterogeneity of the group of people who are variously categorized as older, aged, elderly, or over 65. The contributors review the literature analytically, in a way that reveals not only current theoretical and methodological approaches to communication and aging research but also sets the future agenda. This handbook will be of great interest to scholars and researchers in gerontology, developmental psychology, and communication, and, in this updated edition, will continue to play a key role in the study of communication and aging.

Author : Gary M. Kenyon, PhD,James E. Birren, PhD,Jan-Erik Ruth, PhD,Johannes J.F. Schroots, PhD,Torbjorn Svensson, PhD
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826189820

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Aging and Biography by Gary M. Kenyon, PhD,James E. Birren, PhD,Jan-Erik Ruth, PhD,Johannes J.F. Schroots, PhD,Torbjorn Svensson, PhD Pdf

Personal life narratives can serve as a rich source of new insights into the experience of human aging. In this comp;rehensive volume, an international team of editors and contributors provide effective approaches to using biography to enhance our understanding of adult development. In addition to providing new theoretical aspects on aging and biography, the book also details new developments concerning the practical use of different biographical approaches in both research and clinical work. This is a landmark volume advancing the use of narrative approaches in gerontology.