Valuing Older People: A Humanist Approach to Ageing - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1847422926 ISBN 13 : 9781847422927

Editeur : Policy Press, 2009

Synopsis

How can we understand older people as real human beings, value their wisdom, and appreciate that their norms and purposes both matter in themselves and are affected by those of others? Using a life-course approach, Valuing older people argues that the complexity and potential creativity of later life demand a humanistic vision of older people and ageing. It acknowledges the diversity of experiences of older age and presents a range of contexts and methodologies through which they can be understood. Ageing is a process of creating meaning carried out by older people, and is significant for those around them. This book, therefore, considers the impact of social norms and political and economic structures on older people's capacities to age in creative ways. What real obstacles are there to older people's construction of meaningful lives? What is being achieved when they feel they are ageing well? This collection, aimed at students, researchers, practitioners and policy-makers, offers a lively and constructive response to contemporary challenges involving ageing and how to understand it.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ricca Edmondson was educated in Lancaster and Oxford. After research at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, she is now senior lecturer in the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her teaching and research focus on the sociology of wisdom and the life course, ethnographic methods, intercultural understanding, rhetorical argument and the history of political thought. Hans-Joachim von Kondratowitz was educated in Berlin, Saarbrücken and Washington University, before working in Munich and Kassel. He is now a senior researcher at the German Centre of Gerontology in Berlin. His interests include international long-term care arrangements, older people and family migration, welfare state and welfare cultures, cultural definitions of ageing, and community projects on ageing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Policy Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1847422926
• ISBN 13: 9781847422927
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Éditeur: Edmondson Ricca, Von Kondratowitz Hans-Joachim
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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