Downsizing : : Confronting Our Possessions in Later Life / / David Ekerdt.
As life unfolds, things tend to accumulate. When older adults undergo health, residential, and marital changes, they will face a reckoning with their lifelong store of possessions—special, ordinary, and forgotten. Such a predicament now confronts tens of millions of Americans as the Baby Boom cohort...
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Ekerdt, David, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Downsizing : Confronting Our Possessions in Later Life / David Ekerdt. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2020] ©2020 1 online resource : 2 b&w figures text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Not Forever -- 1. A Convoy of Possessions Across the Life Course -- 2. With Aging, How Large a Convoy? -- 3. Moving Calls the Question -- 4. Contours of House hold Disbandment -- 5. Gifts to Others -- 6. Selling Possessions -- 7. Donations and Discards -- 8. Emotion and Evaluation -- 9. Advice -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star As life unfolds, things tend to accumulate. When older adults undergo health, residential, and marital changes, they will face a reckoning with their lifelong store of possessions—special, ordinary, and forgotten. Such a predicament now confronts tens of millions of Americans as the Baby Boom cohort passes into retirement and beyond. Despite what a thriving industry of clutter manuals tells us, for most older adults, downsizing is no simple task.Drawing on in-depth interviews with recent movers in over a hundred diverse U.S. households, David Ekerdt analyzes the downsizing process and what it says about the meaning and management of possessions. He details how households approach and accomplish downsizing, exploring the decision-making process and the effectiveness of different strategies. From an expert gerontological perspective, he considers the cognitive, physical, emotional, and social tasks that the process entails and the role of factors such as gender and class on the divestment of things. Ekerdt finds that despite the fatigue and emotional challenges people encounter, afterward they report satisfaction in having completed a downsizing and feel empowerment on the other side of the task. Offering an empathetic and practical look at one of life’s major transitions, Downsizing brings forward the voices of elders so that older adults, their families and friends, and practitioners working with older clients can understand and benefit from their experience. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023) House cleaning. Older people Conduct of life. Orderliness. (DE-588)4001446-0 (DE-627)104814578 (DE-576)208842918 Alter gnd (DE-588)4006023-8 (DE-627)106378821 (DE-576)208864032 Besitz gnd (DE-588)4020511-3 (DE-627)104623993 (DE-576)208933662 Geschenk gnd (DE-588)4034869-6 (DE-627)106250485 (DE-576)209009527 Lebenslauf gnd (DE-588)4123143-0 (DE-627)105757233 (DE-576)209557222 Entsorgung gnd (DE-588)4132060-8 (DE-627)105690503 (DE-576)209632410 Hausrat gnd (DE-588)4135780-2 (DE-627)105662534 (DE-576)209663685 Spende gnd (DE-588)4141551-6 (DE-627)105619493 (DE-576)209712236 Affektive Bindung gnd (DE-588)4152364-7 (DE-627)105538795 (DE-576)209794925 Entlastung Psychologie gnd (DE-588)4167050-4 (DE-627)105428205 (DE-576)209906073 Lebensplan gnd (DE-588)4177306-8 (DE-627)104196254 (DE-576)209976683 Reduktion gnd (DE-588)4357114-1 (DE-627)181281988 (DE-576)21158746X Aufräumen gnd (DE-588)4501085-7 (DE-627)243724705 (DE-576)213085127 Auszug gnd SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 9783110710977 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English 9783110704716 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 9783110704518 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Social Sciences 2020 English 9783110704723 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Sociology, Education, Psychology 2020 9783110704549 ZDB-23-SEW print 9780231189804 https://doi.org/10.7312/eker18980 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231548557 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231548557/original |
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