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1 online resource (ix, 230 pages) |
| Series |
Ageing in a global context |
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Ageing in a global context.
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| Contents |
Intro; AGEING IN EVERYDAY LIFE; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Series editors' preface; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Series editors' preface; 1. Introduction; Critical thinking about the everyday; Ageing in everyday life; The chapters of this book; Part 1. Materialities; Part 1: introduction; 2.; Introduction; A material convoy; The convoy in later life; Ageing and the meanings of things; Material agency of the convoy; Conclusion; 3. Reinventing the nursing home: metaphors that design care; Introduction; Ruling metaphors |
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A departure: the 'therapeutic' environmentConclusion; 4. The ever-breaking wave of everyday life: animating ageing movement-space; Introduction; Traditional perspectives on movement in gerontology: from a determinant of health and wellbeing to a meaningful experience; Towards movement-space in gerontology: the potential of non-representational theory; Happenings, showings and flows in everyday life: the qualities of ageing movement-space; Conclusion; 5. What's exotic about The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel? Cinema, everyday life and the materialisation of ageing; The silvering screen |
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Making the exotic everyday in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel filmsThe first Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: ageing, home spaces and the mechanisms of everyday white life; The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: the everyday exotic late life as American dream; Conclusion; 6. Between ageing and ageism: portrayals of online dating in later life in Canadian print media; Introduction; Placing later life online dating in context: media portrayals of ageing; Could (online) romance be a marker of 'successful' ageing?; Methods; Findings; Discussion; Part 2 . Embodiments; Part 2: introduction |
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7. Closer to touch: sexuality, embodiment and masculinity in older men's livesViagra-inflated sex athletes or impotent old men? Background to the study; Fritz's story: becoming bodies of touch; Lennart's story: illness, touch and the vulnerable embodiment; Edvard's story: laughter, freedom and touch; Conclusion; 8. Ageing bodies, driving and change: exploring older body-driver fit in the high-tech automobile; Broadening the human-machine fit: the ageing body in studies of driver-car interaction |
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Driving a high-tech automobile: the experiences and bodily adjustments of low-tech older driver bodiesDiscussion and conclusion; 9. Dancing with dementia: citizenship, embodiment and everyday life in the context of long-term care; Introduction; The turn to the arts in dementia care; Somatics, dance science and their integration; The ethnographic setting; Ritual and ceremony; Unstructured movement; Discussion; 10. Why clothes matter: the role of dress in the everyday lives of older people; Dress and age ordering in everyday life; Dress and the fourth age; Conclusion |
| Summary |
What does it mean to age in an ageist society? Applying interdisciplinary perspectives about everyday life to vital issues in older people's lives, this is a critical guide to inform thinking and planning our ageing futures |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
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Aging.
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Older people -- Conduct of life
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Aging
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gerontology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Aging
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Older people -- Conduct of life
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Alltag
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Katz, Stephen, 1952- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781447335924 |
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1447335929 |
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9781447335931 |
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1447335937 |
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9781447335948 |
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1447335945 |
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