Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure : : Connecting Critical and Humanistic Gerontology / / ed. by Jan Baars, Joseph Dohmen, Amanda Grenier, Chris Phillipson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• MitwirkendeR: Baars, Jan,; Bruens, Margreet Th.,; Dannefer, Dale,; Dohmen, Joseph,; Grenier, Amanda,; Hortulanus, Roelof,; Laceulle, Hanne,; Lin, Jielu,; Machielse, Anja,; Phillipson, Chris,; Ray, Mo,; Scharf, Thomas,; Ziegler, Friederike,
• HerausgeberIn: Baars, Jan,; Dohmen, Joseph,; Grenier, Amanda,; Phillipson, Chris,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)

Ageing, meaning and social structure is a unique book advancing critical discourse in gerontology and makes a major contribution to understanding key social and ethical dilemmas facing ageing societies. It confronts and integrates approaches that have been relatively isolated from each other, and in...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Contents
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Connecting meaning with social structure: theoretical foundations
• My own life: ethics, ageing and lifestyle
• Rethinking agency in late life: structural and interpretive approaches1
• Dementia: beyond structures of medicalisation and cultural neglect
• Self-realisation and ageing: a spiritual perspective
• Social ability or social frailty? The balance between autonomy and connectedness in the lives of older people
• Critical perspectives on social work with older people
• Community-based participatory action research: opportunities and challenges for critical gerontology
• Commentary: contingent ageing, naturalisation and some rays of intellectual hope
• Index