Disability and ageing : towards a critical perspective / Ann Leahy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leahy, Ann, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Ageing in a global context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Older people with disabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2021.

Contents:

Front Cover

Disability abd Ageing: Towards a Critical Perspective

Copyright information

Table of contents

Key terms

Acknowledgments

Series editors' preface

1 Introduction

Paradox

Policy frameworks

Political movements

Conceptualisations (or models) of disability

Theoretical approaches

The empirical study: rationale, key features and findings

Terminology and abbreviations

Chapter by chapter outline

Part I The context for disablement in older age

2 Defining disability

Introduction

General approaches to defining disability

The UK social model and beyond

Biopsychosocial models

Approaches to defining disability in older age

Biomedical definitions

Dominant understanding in sociology: the fourth age

Definition from environmental gerontology

Discussion and conclusions

3 Literature: ageing, disability and lifecourse

Scholarship on ageing: social theories

Ageing in early theorising: disengagement theory, activity theory and beyond

Ageing as a social construction: introducing critical gerontology

Critical gerontology: cultural representations

Critical gerontology: the body, identity and intersectionality

Critical gerontology: meaning in life

Disability as social construction: introducing disability studies

Critical or cultural disability studies

Critical disability studies: cultural representations and relational issues

Critical disability studies: bodies

Critical disability studies: identity, multidimensionality and intersectionality

Aspects of medical sociology

Scholarship on the lifecourse

4 Public policies on ageing and disability

Introduction

Background: disability prevalence

Introducing international policy approaches to ageing and to disability

Policies on ageing

Policies on disability

Issues arising from the separation of policy frameworks

Separate policies: consequences for people experiencing disability with ageing

Separate policies: consequences for people ageing with disability

Bridging between policies on ageing and disability

Part II Empirical findings

5 Disabling bodies

Introducing the study: research questions and methods

Theoretical background

Changes in self-identity and biographical disruption

Findings: disabling bodies

Perceiving 'decline' or 'catastrophe'

Having a heightened sense of uncertainty and finitude

Losing activities and participation opportunities

Negotiating social identities in light of dominant discourses

Heterogeneity in the experience of ageing with disability

6 Disabling or enabling contexts

Theoretical background: disability identity

Experiences of disability in interaction with contexts

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 16, 2021).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781447357186

1447357183

9781447357179

1447357175

Publisher Number:

99991615179

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