Personhood Identity And Care In Advanced Old Age

Author : Higgs, Paul,Gilleard, Chris
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781447319061

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As humans live longer, the elderly population increases, and the challenges we face in addressing their needs continue to evolve. This book explores the theoretical and practical issues raised by advanced aging in the contemporary world. Developing new sociological theory, Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard suggest that mental and physical frailty forms a central theme in narratives about deep old age and that discussions of personhood are needed to address this concept. After examining key terms like personhood, the fourth age, frailty, and abjection, Higgs and Gilleard consider the broader implications of these concepts for issues of care--both its meanings and its management. As the care needs of the elderly and options for meeting these needs grow more complex, it is important to examine our collective hopes and fears concerning the end of life, including questions about personhood and expectations for the quality and content of end-of-life care.

Author : Paul Higgs,C. J. Gilleard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Aging
ISBN : 1447319087

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Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age by Paul Higgs,C. J. Gilleard Pdf

As humans live longer, the elderly population increases, and the challenges we face in addressing their needs continue to evolve. This book explores the theoretical and practical issues raised by advanced aging in the contemporary world.

Author : Higgs, Paul,Gilleard, Chris
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781447319054

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Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age by Higgs, Paul,Gilleard, Chris Pdf

As humans live longer, the elderly population increases, and the challenges we face in addressing their needs continue to evolve. This book explores the theoretical and practical issues raised by advanced aging in the contemporary world. Developing new sociological theory, Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard suggest that mental and physical frailty forms a central theme in narratives about deep old age and that discussions of personhood are needed to address this concept. After examining key terms like personhood, the fourth age, frailty, and abjection, Higgs and Gilleard consider the broader implications of these concepts for issues of care--both its meanings and its management. As the care needs of the elderly and options for meeting these needs grow more complex, it is important to examine our collective hopes and fears concerning the end of life, including questions about personhood and expectations for the quality and content of end-of-life care.

Author : Päivi Naskali,Joan R. Harbison,Shahnaj Begum
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9783030206031

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New Challenges to Ageing in the Rural North by Päivi Naskali,Joan R. Harbison,Shahnaj Begum Pdf

This book provides an underexplored view of ageing, one that conceives older people as valuable resources in their communities, as active citizens with both voice, and an agency that includes the capacity for resistance. It acknowledges that becoming old with dignity means also paying attention to caring, good health services and the possibility of good death. The book defines age and ageing as multiple, culturally and historically constructed phenomena that are only loosely connected to the years of one’s life. In focusing on the peripheral North located in the Nordic, Canadian and Russian north, it highlights important questions and viewpoints that can be found and adapted to other rural areas. The book answers the following questions: What is the relevance of legislation and international legal agreements in ensuring the rights of elderly people under political and economic changes? What challenges do geographic isolation, changing age structure, and cultural and ecological transformations pose to possibilities for meeting older people’s needs for engagement in society as well as for their care? As such this book will be of interest to all those working in population aging.

Author : Sheldon S. Tobin
Publisher : New York : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015022043031

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Personhood in Advanced Old Age by Sheldon S. Tobin Pdf

Author : Evonne Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000374001

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Creative Arts-Based Research in Aged Care by Evonne Miller Pdf

This timely book explores what it is like to live in an aged care home: the expectations that new residents and their families enter with, their relationships with fellow residents and formal caregivers, and how they approach, in different ways, the reality that this place is where they will die. Creative Arts-Based Research in Aged Care draws on an immersive semi-longitudinal four-year study and purposely privileges the voices and perspective of older residents. Using creative arts-based qualitative research methods, specifically participatory photography and research poetry, it demonstrates the experience of contemporary aged care from the perspective of those who matter most: older residents. Divided into three parts covering entering residential aged care, daily life in aged care and dying in aged care, the book stimulates debate and discussion about current practice, and the future of aged care in the context of rapid population ageing and care automation. It is essential reading for all scholars and students working in the fields of gerontology, social work, psychology, design, and nursing, particularly those tasked with redesigning aged care in the twenty-first century.

Author : Sandra Torres,Sarah Donnelly
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10
Category : Gerontology
ISBN : 9781447360452

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Critical Gerontology for Social Workers by Sandra Torres,Sarah Donnelly Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789004507654

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Perspectives on Wellbeing: Applications from the Field by Anonim Pdf

This volume provides an exciting introduction to social wellbeing and different epistemological standpoints. Targeted at stakeholders from different fields to collectively problematise and address marginalised populations’ wellbeing, this volume provides researchers’ and practitioners’ perspectives and applications.

Author : Carmen Zamorano Llena,Jonas Stier,Billy Gray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000916898

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Crisis and the Culture of Fear and Anxiety in Contemporary Europe by Carmen Zamorano Llena,Jonas Stier,Billy Gray Pdf

The accruement of crises over the last two decades, with their particular manifestations in the European context, has evoked the feeling of living in exceptional times, as captured in the recurrent claim that we live in the "age of anxiety." The main aim of this collection is to analyse, from a multidisciplinary perspective, the causes and consequences of the current dominance of the discourse of fear, anxiety, and crisis through the experience of distinct and often interdependent moral panics in twenty-first-century Europe. With its multidisciplinary approach, this volume sheds light on the need to view the interrelationship between different crises and their associated affects as crucial in attaining a more nuanced understanding of the aetiology and effects of the current "age of anxiety." This multidisciplinary scrutiny of the interrelationship of twenty-first-century fears, anxiety and crises signals an original engagement with these complex phenomena in order to make their emergence and profound effects on contemporary society more comprehensible. The timeliness of the thematic focus and the rigorous in-depth analyses make this collection relevant to students and academics within the fields of sociology, literary and cultural studies, political science and anthropology, as well as to those in European studies and global studies.

Author : Sue Westwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351851312

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Ageing, Diversity and Equality by Sue Westwood Pdf

Current understandings of ageing and diversity are impoverished in three main ways. Firstly, with regards to thinking about what inequalities operate in later life there has been an excessive preoccupation with economic resources. On the other hand, less attention has been paid to cultural norms and values, other resources, wider social processes, political participation and community engagement. Secondly, in terms of thinking about the ‘who’ of inequality, this has so far been limited to a very narrow range of minority populations. Finally, when considering the ‘how’ of inequality, social gerontology’s theoretical analyses remain under-developed. The overall effect of these issues is that social gerontology remains deeply embedded in normative assumptions which serve to exclude a wide range of older people. Ageing, Diversity and Equality aims to challenge and provoke the above described normativity and offer an alternative approach which highlights the heterogeneity and diversity of ageing, associated inequalities and their intersections. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351851329, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 licence.

Author : Richard Ward,Linn J. Sandberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000864908

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Critical Dementia Studies by Richard Ward,Linn J. Sandberg Pdf

This book puts the critical into dementia studies. It makes a timely and novel contribution to the field, offering a thought-provoking critique of current thinking and debate on dementia. Collectively the contributions gathered together in this text make a powerful case for a more politically engaged and critical treatment of dementia and the systems and structures that currently govern and frame it. The book is inter-disciplinary and draws together leading dementia scholars alongside dementia activists from around the world. It frames dementia as first and foremost a political category. The book advances both theoretical and methodological thinking in the field as well as sharing learning from empirical research. Outlining the limits to existing efforts to frame and theorise the condition, it proposes a new critical movement for the field of dementia studies and practice. The book will be of direct interest to researchers and scholars in the field of dementia studies and wider fields of health, disability and care. It will provide a novel resource for students and practitioners in the fields of dementia, health care and social care. The book also has implications for dementia policymaking, commissioning and community development. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Alexander Peine,Barbara L. Marshall,Wendy Martin,Louis Neven
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000317534

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Socio-gerontechnology by Alexander Peine,Barbara L. Marshall,Wendy Martin,Louis Neven Pdf

Social change in the twenty-first century is shaped by both demographic changes associated with ageing societies and significant technological change and development. Outlining the basic principles of a new academic field, Socio-gerontechnology, this book explores common conceptual, theoretical and methodological ideas that become visible in the critical scholarship on ageing and technology at the intersection of Age Studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS). Comprised of 15 original chapters, three commentaries and an afterword, the book explores how ageing and technology are already interconnected and constantly being intertwined in Western societies. Topics addressed cover a broad variety of socio-material domains, including care robots, the use of social media, ageing-in-place technologies, the performativity of user involvement and public consultations, dementia care and many others. Together, they provide a unique understanding of ageing and technology from a social sciences and humanities perspective and contribute to the development of new ontologies, methodologies and theories that might serve as both critique of and inspiration for policy and design. International in scope, including contributions from the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Australia, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Austria, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden, Socio-gerontechnology is an agenda-setting text that will provide an introduction for students and early career researchers as well as for more established scholars who are interested in ageing and technology.

Author : Jason L. Powell
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031578564

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Unravelling Anti-Aging by Jason L. Powell Pdf

Author : Nicole Thualagant,Pelle Korsbæk Sørensen,Troels Sune Mønsted
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781003823001

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Sustainable Health and the Covid-19 Crisis by Nicole Thualagant,Pelle Korsbæk Sørensen,Troels Sune Mønsted Pdf

This edited collection offers interdisciplinary perspectives on some of the key health challenges faced by individuals, communities, and governments during the COVID-19 pandemic. Taking the Danish context as a starting point, it extrapolates to discuss the international relevance of a range of issues. The book contains 4 parts: · Part 1 looks at the societal reactions to COVID-19, discussing issues around health communication, legitimacy, ethics, and bio-politics. · Part 2 approaches the health and well-being of specific groups during the crisis. · Part 3 assesses how the crisis stimulated sustainable solutions to key problems, from digital methods for delivery of healthcare, to changes to the food supply chain. · Part 4 looks broadly at how historical developments in the study of epidemiology and current scientific perspectives enable the understanding and, to some extent, management of the COVID-19 pandemic. With contributions from scholars across the social sciences, health sciences, and humanities, each chapter provides not only insight into a particular issue, but also the theories and scientific methods applied to understand and overcome the COVID-19 crisis. It will be important reading for both scholars and policy makers, informing an appropriate response to future health crises.

Author : Sue Thompson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781461466871

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Reciprocity and Dependency in Old Age by Sue Thompson Pdf

​​This book highlights (1) the significance of reciprocity for the maintenance of self-esteem in old age and (2) the negative implications for the well-being of dependent older people when that significance goes unrecognized and, as a consequence, opportunities to give back to society, as well as take from it, are not facilitated by those in a position to do so. The discussion draws on research undertaken in the UK and Southern India into the extent to which having the self-perception of being valued in the world is important to older people in receipt of care support and whether, in their experience, this is recognized by others. The author presents an analysis of theoretical insights from leading thinkers across a broad range of literature and from several disciplines, including social theory, social work, philosophy, and gerontology. The author also gives voice to the perspectives of those dependent older people not often heard because of marginalizing and disempowering processes that contribute to their having little opportunity to be heard in the first place. The emphasis of this book is on aspiration to a meaningful life and continuing personal growth as offering a challenge to dominant discourses the equate old age with decline.