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Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age

By: Higgs, Paul,Gilleard, Chris

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Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age

By: Higgs, Paul,Gilleard, Chris

How do we sustain agency and identity amidst the frailty of advanced old age? What role does care play in this process? Pushing forward new sociological theory, this book explores the theoretical and practical issues raised by age and infirmity. It begins with a theoretical examination of the fourth age, interrogating notions of agency, identity and personhood, as well as the impact of frailty, abjection and ‘othering’. It then applies this analysis to issues of care. Exploring our collective hopes and fears concerning old age and the ends of people’s lives, this is essential reading on one of the biggest social issues of our time.

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188

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Policy Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1447319095

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9781447319092

Social Divisions and Later Life

Difference, Diversity and Inequality

By: Gilleard, Chris,Higgs, Paul

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Social Divisions and Later Life

Difference, Diversity and Inequality

By: Gilleard, Chris,Higgs, Paul

As the population ages, this book reveals how divides that are apparent through childhood and working life change and are added to in later life. Two internationally renowned experts in ageing look beyond longstanding factors like class, gender and ethnicity to explore new social divisions, including contrasting states of physical fitness and mental health. They show how differences in health and frailty are creating fresh inequalities in later life, with significant implications for the future of our ageing societies. This accessible overview of social divisions is essential reading for those interested in the sociology of ageing and its differences, diversities and inequalities.

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222

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Policy Press

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144733860X

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9781447338604

Old Age in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Ageing under the Union

By: Chris Gilleard

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Old Age in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Ageing under the Union

By: Chris Gilleard

Using a combination of statistical analysis of census material and social history, this book describes the ageing of Ireland’s population from the start of the Union up to the introduction of the old age pension in 1908. It examines the changing demography of the country following the Famine and the impact this had on household and family structure. It explores the growing problem of late life poverty and the residualisation of the aged sick and poor in the workhouse. Despite slow improvements in many areas of life for the young and the working classes, the book argues that for the aged the union was a period of growing immiseration, brought surprisingly to an end by the unheralded introduction of the old age pension.

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128

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Springer

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1137585412

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9781137585417

Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment

By: Chris Gilleard,Paul Higgs

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Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment

By: Chris Gilleard,Paul Higgs

‘Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment’ outlines and develops an argument about the emergence of a ‘new ageing’ during the second half of the twentieth century and its realisation through the processes of ‘embodiment’. The authors argue that ageing as a unitary social process and agedness as a distinct social location have lost much of their purchase on the social imagination. Instead, this work asserts that later life has become as much a field for ‘not becoming old’ as of ‘old age’. The volume locates the origins of this transformation in the cultural ferment of the 1960s, when new forms of embodiment concerned with identity and the care of the self arose as mass phenomena. Over time, these new forms of embodiment have been extended, changing the traditional relationship between body, age and society by making struggles over the care of the self central to the cultures of later life.

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228

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Anthem Press

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1783083379

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9781783083374

Cultures of Ageing

Self, Citizen and the Body

By: Chris Gilleard,Paul Higgs

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Cultures of Ageing

Self, Citizen and the Body

By: Chris Gilleard,Paul Higgs

For undergraduate courses in sociology and psychology which examine ageing adulthood. This book focuses on the dramatic changes to the nature of post-retirement life experienced by people at the end of the twentieth century. It examines age and ageing in terms of the key preoccupations of contemporary sociology - citizenship, the body and the self. The book provides a platform for a new social gerontology that sees ageing as central to our understanding of social change. It examines social, cultural and political changes in Europe and North America to address the need for a text that moves the study of ageing from social policy towards the mainstream of social science.

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217

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Routledge

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1317880153

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9781317880158

Contexts of Ageing

Class, Cohort and Community

By: Chris Gilleard,Paul Higgs

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Contexts of Ageing

Class, Cohort and Community

By: Chris Gilleard,Paul Higgs

Drawing on a wide range of sources, this text analyses the social nature of later life in the context of the history of welfare states, the emergence of consumer society and across the lifecourse.

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216

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Polity

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0745629490

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Rethinking Old Age

Theorising the Fourth Age

By: Paul Higgs,Chris Gilleard

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Rethinking Old Age

Theorising the Fourth Age

By: Paul Higgs,Chris Gilleard

With the aspiration for a long life now achievable for many individuals, the status of old age as a distinct social position has become problematic. In this radical re-examination of the nature of old age, Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard reveal the emergence of a 'fourth age' that embodies the most feared and marginalised aspects of old age, conceptually linked to and yet distinct from traditional models of old age. Inspired by the authors' ground-breaking work on the third and fourth age and supported by extensive sociological, medical and historical research, Rethinking Old Age offers a unique and timely analysis of the fourth age as a 'social imaginary' that is shaped and maintained by the social, cultural and political discourses and practices that divide later life. It stands as a significant resource for students, academics and practitioners of sociology, ageing studies, gerontology, social policy, health studies, social work and nursing.

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184

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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113738400X

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Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age

By: Higgs, Paul,Gilleard, Chris

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Policy Press

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1447319052

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Social Divisions and Later Life

Difference, Diversity and Inequality

By: Gilleard, Chris,Higgs, Paul

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Difference, Diversity and Inequality

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Rethinking Old Age

Theorising the Fourth Age

By: Paul Higgs,Chris Gilleard

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Theorising the Fourth Age

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Cultures of Ageing

Self, Citizen and the Body

By: Chris Gilleard,Paul Higgs

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Routledge

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Old Age in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Ageing under the Union

By: Chris Gilleard

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Ageing under the Union

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128

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Springer

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Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment

By: Chris Gilleard,Paul Higgs

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Anthem Press

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1783083379

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Contexts of Ageing

Class, Cohort and Community

By: Chris Gilleard,Paul Higgs

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Class, Cohort and Community

By: Chris Gilleard,Paul Higgs

Drawing on a wide range of sources, this text analyses the social nature of later life in the context of the history of welfare states, the emergence of consumer society and across the lifecourse.

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Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age

Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age

Social Divisions and Later Life

Social Divisions and Later Life

Old Age in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Old Age in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment

Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment

Cultures of Ageing

Cultures of Ageing

Contexts of Ageing

Contexts of Ageing

Rethinking Old Age

Rethinking Old Age

Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age

Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age

Social Divisions and Later Life

Social Divisions and Later Life

Rethinking Old Age

Rethinking Old Age

Cultures of Ageing

Cultures of Ageing

Old Age in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Old Age in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment

Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment

Contexts of Ageing

Contexts of Ageing

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