Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland : : when life becomes craft / / Pauline Garvey, Daniel Miller.
There are not many books about how people get younger. It doesn't happen very often. But Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland documents a radical change in the experience of ageing.Based on two ethnographies, one within Dublin and the other from the Dublin region, the book shows that people, rath...
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| Place / Publishing House: | London, England : : UCL Press,, 2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (265 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of abbreviations
- Series Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Summary of conclusions
- Ireland: a historical and contemporary portrait
- Introduction to Ireland
- Anthropology in Ireland
- The focus on ageing
- Introduction to our fieldsites
- Cuan
- Thornhill
- Field methods
- Ethics and people
- Notes
- 2 Ageing and retirement
- Introduction
- Ageing and frailty: the subjective experience
- Complications: class and invisibility
- Retirement
- Retiring together: couples Ageing with smartphones
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 3 Everyday life: activities and routines
- Social Prescribing
- The individual's perspective
- Observing activities
- The ukulele group
- The Men's Shed
- Thornhill Strollers
- Craft and coffee
- Filling time
- Crafting routines
- Smartphones and special times
- Conclusion: crafting
- Notes
- 4 Ageing and social life
- Introduction
- Relationships with partners
- Relationships with parents
- Relationships with siblings and wider kin
- Grandparenting
- Friendships and loneliness
- Neighbours
- Conclusion
- Notes 5 Smartphones and ageing
- Smartphone infrastructure
- Talking about smartphones
- The wider context
- Learning and teaching smartphones
- Smartphone apps
- Personalisation
- The Irish smartphone
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 6 Health and care
- Health services, insurance and complementary health
- Responding through wellness
- Age, attitudes and behaviour
- Menopause
- Googling for health information
- Dementia and dying parents
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 7 Downsizing
- Introduction
- Alternatives to residential care
- Not downsizing
- Downsizing Divestment and decluttering
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 8 Life purpose
- Death and funerals
- The role of ethics
- Keeping active
- Walking and pilgrimage
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 9 Conclusion
- When life becomes craft
- An Irish ethos
- The smartphone
- Becoming younger
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover.