| Description |
xvii, 209 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The experience of loss and the range of contestation / Janice E. Graham and Peter H. Stephenson -- Part I Overview: paradigms and perspectives -- Age and time: contesting the paradigm of loss in the age of novelty / Peter H. Stephenson -- Part II Local understanding and knowledge about aging -- how seniors see it -- Losing and gaining: about growing old "successfully" inthe Netherlands / Margaret von Faber and Sjaak van der Geest -- Empowering knowledge and practices of Namaqualand elders / Robin Oakley -- La Buona Vecchiaia: aging and well-being among Italian Canadians / Sam Migliore and Margaret Dorazio-Migliore -- Part III Illness, indignity, and stigmatization -- Drunks, bums, and deadbeats? A biographical perspective on gender, aging, and the inequalities of men / Cherry Russell -- Dignity and loss: implications for seniors' health in hospitalization narratives / Christina Homes and Peter H. Stephenson -- Part IV Embodiments and disembodiments -- Embodied selfhood: ethnographic reflections, performing ethnography, and humanizing dementia care / Pia C. Kontos -- The science, politics, and everyday life of recognizing effective treatments for dementia / Janice E. Graham -- Part V Practices and policies -- "Them" and "us": building appropriate policies from fieldwork to practice / Janice E. Graham |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Issued also in electronic format |
| Subject |
Older people -- Social conditions.
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Older people -- Psychology.
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Older people -- Social networks.
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Aging.
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Aging -- psychology.
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Aged -- psychology.
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Life Change Events.
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Social Conditions.
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Social Support.
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| Author |
Graham, Janice Elizabeth, 1958-
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Stephenson, Peter H.
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| LC no. |
2010455438 |
| ISBN |
9781442600898 (alk. paper) |
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1442600896 (alk. paper) |
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1442601000 (paperback) |
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9781442601000 (paperback) |
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