Through Japanese Eyes : : Thirty Years of Studying Aging in America / / Yohko Tsuji.

In Through Japanese Eyes, based on her thirty-year research at a senior center in upstate New York, anthropologist Yohko Tsuji describes old age in America from a cross-cultural perspective. Comparing aging in America and in her native Japan, she discovers that notable differences in the pan-human e...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2020]
©2021
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Global Perspectives on Aging
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Physical Description:1 online resource (268 p.) :; 8 b-w images, 8 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Japanese Names
  • Introduction
  • 1 Activities as Value at Lake District Senior Center
  • 2 Elders Supporting Each Other to Help Themselves
  • 3 Networking at Lake District Senior Center
  • 4 Postretirement Housing and Living Arrangements
  • 5 Who Supports Older Americans?
  • 6 Temporal Complexity in Older Americans’ Lives
  • 7 Changes and Continuities over Thirty Years of Research
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index