Storying later life : issues, investigations, and interventions in narrative gerontology / edited by Gary Kenyon, Ernst Bohlmeijer, and William L. Randall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bohlmeijer, Ernst, 1965-

Kenyon, Gary M.

Randall, William Lowell, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiographical memory.

Geriatric psychiatry.

Gerontology--Biographical methods.

Gerontology.

Narrative therapy.

Reminiscing in old age.

Physical Description:

xxi, 397 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Storying Later Life demonstrates that the biographical side of human aging is every bit as critical to fathom as the biological side, and that aging is about meaning and growth as well as decline. This volume provides an overview of current thinking and new directions, including examples of narrative care as core care.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Preface

Contributors

PART 1 ISSUES

Chapter 1 Narrative Foreclosure in Later Life: Possibilities and Limits

Chapter 2 Memory, Metaphor, and Meaning: Reading for Wisdom in the Stories of Our Lives

Chapter 3 Narrative Events and Biographical Construction in Old Age

Chapter 4 Inventing Yourself: How Older Adults Deal with the Pressure of Late-Modern Identity Construction

Chapter 5 In Waves of Time, Space, and Self: The Dwelling-Place of Age in Virginia Woolf's The Waves

Chapter 6 The Narrative Frame in Discourse on Aging: Understanding Facts and Values Behind Public Policy

PART 2 INVESTIGATIONS

Chapter 7 The Power of Stories Left Untold: Narratives of Nazi Followers

Chapter 8 Young Bodies, Old Bodies, and Stories of the Athletic Self

Chapter 9 The Raging Grannies: Narrative Construction of Gender and Aging

Chapter 10 Narrative and Gender Differences: How Men and Women Interpret Their Lives

Chapter 11 Telling Stories: How Do Expressions of Self Differ in a Writing Group Versus a Reminiscence Group?

Chapter 12 Mnëmë and Anamnësis: The Contribution of Involuntary Reminiscences to the Construction of a Narrative Self in Older Age

Chapter 13 Achieving Narrative Coherence Following Traumatic War Experience: The Role of Social Support

Chapter 14 Using Self-Defining Memories in Couples Therapy with Older Adults

PART 3 INTERVENTIONS

Chapter 15 On Suffering, Loss, and The Journey To Life: Tai Chi as Narrative Care

Chapter 16 Older Adults in Search of New Stories: Measuring the Effects of Life Review on Coherence and Integration in Autobiographical Narratives

Chapter 17 Reminiscence Interventions: Bringing Narrative Gerontology into Practice.

Chapter 18 Life Review Using Autobiographical Retrieval: A Protocol for Training Depressed Residential Home Inhabitants in Recalling Specific Personal Memories

Chapter 19 "Green and Gray": An Educational Program to Enhance Contact Between Younger and Older Adults by Means of Lifestories

Chapter 20 Implementation of Narrative Care in The Netherlands: Coordinating Management, Institutional, and Personal Narratives

Chapter 21 Asking the Right Questions: Enabling Persons with Dementia to Speak for Themselves

Chapter 22 The Ripple Effect: A Story of the Transformational Nature of Narrative Care

Afterword: Toward a Narrative Turn in Health Care

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-00980-3

9786613009807

0-19-984267-1

OCLC:

608687371