| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 205 pages) |
| Contents |
Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- Critical gerontology as structural analysis -- Humanistic gerontology: articulations of interpersonal meaning in old age -- Critical and humanistic perspectives -- 2. Connecting meaning with social structure: theoretical foundations -- Introduction -- Meaning, independence and interdependence -- Roots of independence -- Another side of modernity -- Meanings in life and ageing -- Meaning, systemic worlds and life worlds -- Responses from critical gerontology: human rights and global change -- Conclusion: contingent and existential limitations -- 3. My own life: ethics, ageing and lifestyle -- Introduction -- From emancipation to life politics -- Recent moral philosophical reflections on life politics -- Ethics, ageing and lifestyle -- Conclusion -- 4. Rethinking agency in late life: structural and interpretive approaches1 -- Introduction -- The 'fourth age' defined -- Approaches to agency -- Interpretive and psycho-dynamic perspectives on ageing -- Reframing agency in the fourth age -- New approaches to agency in the fourth age -- Conclusion -- 5. Dementia: beyond structures of medicalisation and cultural neglect -- Introduction -- Beyond medicalisation: the 'Kitwood shift' -- Beyond Kitwood -- Beyond cultural neglect: dementia and citizenship -- Conclusion -- 6. Self-realisation and ageing: a spiritual perspective -- Introduction -- Individualisation, self-realisation and ageing in late modernity -- Self-realisation and the self -- Sprituality and self-realisation in later life -- Ageing and spiritual development -- Discussion: the merits of the spiritual perspective in relation to self-realisation -- Conclusion -- 7. Social ability or social frailty? The balance between autonomy and connectedness in the lives of older people -- Introduction |
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Meaning of personal relationships -- Social relationships in a late modern society -- Loneliness, social isolation and social exclusion -- Social networks of older adults -- Changes in the network -- Life events -- Personal competencies -- Social ability and personal competencies of older adults -- Ageing well -- Conclusion -- 8. Critical perspectives on social work with older people -- Introduction -- Challenges in contemporary social work practice with older people -- Current trends in service provision -- Developing critical perspectives -- Conclusion -- 9. Community-based participatory action research: opportunities and challenges for critical gerontology -- Introduction -- CALL-ME project -- Politics of participation -- Em-power-ment, the subject and space -- Reflexivity and the production of knowledge -- Reflections -- 10. Commentary: contingent ageing, naturalisation and some rays of intellectual hope -- Introduction -- Contingent and existential ageing -- Theory and practice -- Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Aging -- Social aspects
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Gerontology.
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Aging.
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gerontology.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Aging.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gerontology.
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Aging
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Gerontology
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Aging -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Baars, Jan, editor.
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Dohmen, Joseph, editor.
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Grenier, Amanda, editor.
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Phillipson, Chris, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781447300915 |
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1447300912 |
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1447300904 |
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9781447300908 |
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