Cultural Perspectives on Aging : : A Different Approach to Old Age and Aging / / ed. by Andrea Hülsen-Esch.

• MitwirkendeR: Baro, Hanna,; Casado-Gual, Núria,; Domínguez-Rué, Emma,; Fangerau, Heiner, 1972-; Lamb, Erin Gentry,; Hansson, Nils,; Hartung, Heike,; Hülsen-Esch, Andrea von,; Kruse, Andreas,; Martin, Susanne,; Meyer, Birgit,; Rolfes, Vasilija,; Schäfer, Daniel,
• HerausgeberIn: Hülsen-Esch, Andrea von,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2021]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (V, 172 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Current demographic developments and change due to long life expectancies, low birth rates, changing family structures, and economic and political crises causing migration and flight are having a significant impact on intergenerational relationships, the social welfare system, the job market and wha...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Introduction: Perspectives on Cultural Aging at a Glance
• Ethics and Ageing
• Personal Growth, Creativity and Transcendence in Old Age. A Psychological Analysis
• Historical Considerations on the Ethics of Aging: Examples from the Sixteenth Century
• Electronic Health and Ambient Assisted Living: On the Technisation of Ageing and Responsibility
• Towards a New Theory of Ageism
• Not Your Grandmother's Ageism: Ageism Across the Life Course
• Confronting Loss when 'Life Changes in the Instant': Ageism and Successful Aging in the 'Case' of Joan Didion
• The Arts and Old Age
• Exploring Old Age Through the Theatre: Three British Senior Theatre Companies
• A Spinster with a Twist: The Amateur Sleuth and Perspectives on Ageing and Gender in the Sunday Philosophy Club Series
• ± 100: Old Age and New Photography
• Performing Age(ing): A Lecture Performance
• Opera for Every Age - Opera for People with Dementia
• About the Authors
• Index