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Ageing, Independence and the Life Course

  • ISBN-13: 9781853021800
  • Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
  • Edited by Sara Arber
  • Price: AUD $67.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/07/1993
  • Format: Paperback (233.00mm X 155.00mm) 256 pages Weight: 418g
  • Categories: Coping with old age [VFJG]
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This book provides an analysis of later life. By using a life course perspective, it explores the ways in which bases of structural advantage and disadvantage, such as housing, social class, ethnicity, health and disability, have cumulative impacts on the situation of older people. Contributors address key processes of change, and how these processes are gendered and socially structured. The book is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in sociology, sociology of ageing, social policy, gerontology and psychology.
Aging, independence and the life course, Sara Arber and Maria Evandrou. Part 1 Independence and autonomy in later life: forgotten but not gone - the experience of aging with a disability, Gerry Zarb; money and independence in old age, Gail Wilson; social roles, personal identity and food consumption, Glennys Howarth; aging, gender and the organization of physical activities, Kevin Morgan and Kate Bennett. Part 2 Perceptions of aging: comparative perceptions of aging - case studies in England and Yugoslavia, John Vincent and Zelijka Mudrovcic; the emotional and sexual lives of older people, H.B. Gibson; policies and perceptions, service needs of elderly people from black and ethnic minority backgrounds, Janet Askham; the meaning of home in later life, Craig Gurney and Robin Means. Part 3 Constraints, choice and policy implications: housing, the life course and older people, David Clapham et al; class and material inequalities in informal caring, Sara Arber and Jay Ginn; what role for institutional care?, Paul Higgs and Christina Victor; British welfare policy and the life course - developing sensitive alternatives, Maria Evandrou and Jane Falkingham.
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