Positive Aging And Precarity

Author : Irina Catrinel Crăciun
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Grenier, Amanda,Phillipson, Chris,Richard A. Settersten Jr
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447340867

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Precarity and Ageing by Grenier, Amanda,Phillipson, Chris,Richard A. Settersten Jr Pdf

This edited collection develops an exciting new approach to understanding the changing cultural, economic and social circumstances facing different groups of older people.

Author : Adriana Teodorescu,Dan Chiribucă
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000568318

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Shaping Ageing by Adriana Teodorescu,Dan Chiribucă Pdf

This volume examines the manifold, often contradictory, aspects of ageing, considering the ways in which contemporary social transformations affect the experience, conception, interpretation, and representation of ageing. Thematically arranged, it brings together the latest scholarly work from around the world to consider theories and narratives of ageing and the effects of space and place on identity and the experience of old age. Combining micro and macro perspectives, as well as theoretical and applied research, this interdisciplinary volume offers cross-cultural and comparative studies that resist overgeneralization and reductivism in an effort to shed fresh light on our experience, understanding, and response to ageing in the modern world. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences, particularly sociology, gerontology, demography, social policy, and cultural studies, with interests in ageing and later life.

Author : Irina Catrinel Crăciun
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783031244490

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Fostering Development in Midlife and Older Age by Irina Catrinel Crăciun Pdf

This handbook integrates and discusses a growing evidence base concerning individual development across middle and late adulthood. The book includes a comprehensive analysis of what growth implies within midlife and older age and considers how different developmental areas are intertwined (i.e., physical, cognitive, social and emotional development as well as personality growth). As the gap between theory and practice still constitutes an issue in developmental research, the handbook also aims to provide illustrative examples of prevention and intervention from a positive psychology perspective. These were selected to represent a variety of topics, relevant for individual development where research informs practice, ranging from happiness, grandparenthood, love and sexuality to loneliness, depression, anxiety, suicide prevention and coping with death. This handbook is a must-have resource for students and researchers working in developmental psychology, health psychology, gerontology and, public health. It will also be of interest to practitioners such as counsellors, life coaches, psychotherapists, organizational psychologists, health professionals, social workers or public health planners.

Author : Daphne C. Watkins
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781506389561

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Secondary Data in Mixed Methods Research by Daphne C. Watkins Pdf

Secondary Data in Mixed Methods Research by Daphne C. Watkins, the latest contribution to the Mixed Methods Research Series, offers unique and necessary instruction in this growing topic. With the increasing amount of secondary data available through journals and repositories, researchers have a trove of sources for new investigations at their fingertips, but few books to guide them. This brief text provides readers with a step-by-step procedure for incorporating secondary data into various mixed methods research designs, as well as identifying key characteristics of existing datasets that make them good candidates for mixed methods projects and giving ideas for new uses of secondary data. Introductory chapters help the reader understand the “what” and “why” of secondary data. Subsequent chapters address the use of secondary data in convergent, exploratory sequential, explanatory sequential, and other complex research designs. The final chapters delve into writing and reporting on projects before, during, and after the project. Quotes throughout the chapter help readers remember key bits of knowledge, while learning objectives and summaries in each chapter structure the reading experience. Application questions at the end of each chapter help readers recall information and apply it to their own research projects. By emphasizing how to use existing qualitative and quantitative datasets in mixed methods research, Secondary Data in Mixed Methods Research will help readers answer new and ongoing questions in social science research.

Author : Richard Hays Williams,Claudine G. Wirths
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780202367125

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Lives Through the Years by Richard Hays Williams,Claudine G. Wirths Pdf

"Growing old - what is it like? What are the main problems of the aging? Lack of fulfillment in their work and life? Loneliness? Anxiety about sickness and disability? Fear of death? This well-documented, theoretically systematic, and vivid account of the process of aging provides highly enlightening answers and dispels once and for all many of the myths surrounding the close to 20 million Americans who are over sixty-five. Building upon the results of extensive interviews, the authors have established the existence of six styles and have concluded that a successful transition to old age can be achieved through any of them. They have also developed a definition of success, which has practical implications, since it deals with the extent to which an individual contributes or is a burden to the lives of those around him. The combined analysis of style and success results in a better understanding of individual differences in aging. The reader comes to know and understand the subjects as if he had worked with them in person. The wealth of detail the case histories contain permits scholars and students to judge for themselves the validity of the authors' findings. Derived from this unusually rich body of material, the authors' conclusions and recommendations are invaluable to all concerned with the study, the treatment, and the counseling of the aged. "Lives Through the Years" is a pioneering volume of social inquiry and interpretation, which marks a major scientific advance in its field, opens up new horizons for fruitful research, and offers a stimulating and authoritative portrayal of one of the most important problems of our society."--Provided by publisher

Author : Elizabeth Rieger,Robert Costanza,Ida Kubiszewski,Paul Dugdale
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780197567579

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Toward an Integrated Science of Wellbeing by Elizabeth Rieger,Robert Costanza,Ida Kubiszewski,Paul Dugdale Pdf

"There has always been interest in understanding what constitutes the good life. Starting with early philosophical writings, sustainable wellbeing at multiple scales - from physical and psychological health, through to the societal and environmental - has been a fundamental goal. Much has been written at each of these scales, from the perspectives of psychology, medicine, economics, social science, ecology, and political science. However, their interconnections have received far less attention, even though the identification of these interdependencies is critical to the comprehensive understanding and advancement of wellbeing"--

Author : Terence Chun Tat Shum,Charles C. L. Kwong
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789819953820

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Housing and Ageing Policies in Chinese and Global Contexts by Terence Chun Tat Shum,Charles C. L. Kwong Pdf

Motivated by the rapid increase in housing demand and the population of older adults worldwide, this book provides an interdisciplinary and multi-level approach for studying housing and ageing issues and relevant policy analysis in China, and beyond. Specifically, it highlights how the changing social, economic, and political factors at both local and global levels affect the housing or ageing experiences of people. Drawing on findings and theoretical discussions in economics, history, psychology, sociology, social policy, and urban studies, the authors offer interdisciplinary perspectives on a highly topical debate, asking what progress is being made on the formulation and implementation of housing and ageing policies in different societies. The book brings together original qualitative and quantitative research works in European, Asia-Pacific and Chinese contexts. Readers will benefit from the results of a rigorous analysis of data and case studies that reveal factors affecting housing or ageing experiences of people in these regions. The interdisciplinary research also provides valuable insights on further policy analyses and formulation in both local and global contexts. It is of interest to scholars, policy makers and university students in the fields of housing, ageing, and social and public policy.

Author : Marion Repetti,Toni Calasanti
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07
Category : Cost and standard of living
ISBN : 9781447358213

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Retirement Migration and Precarity in Later Life by Marion Repetti,Toni Calasanti Pdf

The last few decades have seen an increase in the migration of ageing people from richer Northern and Western countries to poorer Southern and Eastern countries. This book seeks to understand the motivation behind retirement migration and how precarity in later life contributes to this trend. Drawing on accounts of retirees from different nations, the book examines how welfare policies in their home country versus their country of migration shape their experiences of migration. It shows how ageism impacts social precarity across different social classes, and across economic, social and health dimensions. It also evaluates how local and global systems of inequalities influence retirement migrants' experience, providing both opportunities and constraints that differ across countries.

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2278 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104239951

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare, and Related Agencies Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1216 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:31951D03538279Z

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Public Health Service by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare, and Related Agencies Appropriations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1222 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LOC:00220922819

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Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriatons for ... Department of Health, Education, and Welare by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and Related Agencies Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and Related Agencies,United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare and Related Agencies Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1238 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119541410

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Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare Appropriations for 1962 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and Related Agencies,United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare and Related Agencies Appropriations Pdf

Author : Tom Nesbit,Michael Welton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781118709047

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Adult Education and Learning in a Precarious Age: The Hamburg Declaration Revisited by Tom Nesbit,Michael Welton Pdf

UNESCO’s 1997 CONFINTEA V conference in Hamburg has been described as the high-water mark of international adult education policy-making. It produced one of the most utopian statements about adult education and learning of the past 25 years: the Hamburg Declaration on Adult Learning and Agenda for the Future. Adult education was declared key to the twenty-first century in order to build “a world in which violent conflict is replaced by dialogue, a culture of peace based on justice . . . and the creation of a learning society committed to social justice and general well-being.” However, the Declaration also recognized that there were many practical challenges to its implementation as profound changes were occurring in social, economic, environmental, and political spheres. In this volume, North American and international scholars critically assess how far the visionary statements of the Hamburg Declaration have been advanced and implemented. They: Review the recent development of the 10 themes of the Agenda for the Future Explore their local and global achievements through considering the results of the 2009 CONFINTEA VI conference and other related policy developments Outline what is still necessary to realize the Declaration’s goals. This is 138th volume of this quarterly report series. Noted for its depth of coverage, it explores issues of common interest to instructors, administrators, counselors, and policymakers in a broad range of adult and continuing education settings, such as colleges and universities, extension programs, businesses, libraries, and museums.

Author : Amanda Grenier
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780228009542

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Late-Life Homelessness by Amanda Grenier Pdf

Around the world and across a range of contexts, homelessness among older people is on the rise. In spite of growing media attention and new academic research on the issue, older people often remain unrecognized as a subpopulation in public policy, programs, and homeless strategies. As such, they occupy a paradoxical position of being hypervisible while remaining overlooked. Late-Life Homelessness is the first Canadian book to address this often neglected issue. Basing her analysis on a four-year ethnographic study of late-life homelessness in Montreal, Canada, Amanda Grenier uses a critical gerontological perspective to explore life at the intersection of aging and homelessness. She draws attention to disadvantage over time and how the condition of being unhoused disrupts a person’s ability to age in place, resulting in experiences of unequal aging. Weaving together findings from policy documents, stakeholder insights, and observations and interviews with older people, this book demonstrates how structures, organizational practices, and relationships related to homelessness and aging come to shape late life. Situated in the context of an aging population, rising inequality, and declining social commitments, Late-Life Homelessness stresses the moral imperative of responding justly to the needs of older people as a means of mitigating the unequal aging of unhoused elders.