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Livre 10 sur 14: Ageing in a Global Context

Leahy, Ann

 
9781447357155: Disability and Ageing: Towards a Critical Perspective

Synopsis

Establishing a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue, this text engages with the typically disparate fields of social gerontology and disability studies. It investigates the subjective experiences of two groups rarely considered together in research - people ageing with long-standing disability and people first experiencing disability with ageing.

This book challenges assumptions about impairment in later life and the residual nature of the 'fourth age'. It proposes that the experience of 'disability' in older age reaches beyond the bodily context and can involve not only a challenge to a sense of value and meaning in life, but also ongoing efforts in response.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ann Leahy is Irish Research Council Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Maynooth University. She was previously Assistant CEO of Age & Opportunity, an age-sector NGO in Ireland.

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