Contesting Aging and Loss / Janice Graham, Peter Stephenson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Graham, Janice, Editor.

Stephenson, Peter, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Older people--Social conditions.

Older people.

Older people--Psychology.

Older people--Social networks.

Aging.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""This volume invites readers to re-imagine the losses of aging by listening to the views of elders themselves. Researchers, students of aging, and policy makers should find this work most enlightening.""--Athena McLean, Central Michigan University.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

1-4426-0410-7

1-4426-7009-6

OCLC:

863054017