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Changing worlds and the ageing subject — dimensions in the study of ageing and later life
Author(s)	Britt-Marie Öberg, Anna-Liisa Närvänen, Elisabet Näsman
Publisher	Ashgate, Aldershot, 2004
Pages	207 pp (New perspectives on ageing and later life)
Source	Bookpoint Ltd., 130 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4SB. Ashgate website: http://www.ashgate.com
Keywords	Ageing process ; Methodology ; Research ; Europe.
Annotation	Countries across Europe (also Japan and the US) are experiencing declines in birth rate and a significant increase in the number of older people aged 80+. At the same time, changes are happening in other facets of people's everyday lives. This book describes from different perspectives how the conditions for older people's lives are changing, and how this in turn is changing the aims and conduct of research about ageing and later life. Chapters cover: age discrimination; constructs of generation and cohort in studies of ageing; ageing and the life-course; older women's ailments; home help services; the sense of self in Alzheimer's disease (AD); older women's identities; and technology for later life. A concluding contribution suggests some themes that have so far been sparsely researched. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-050415001 B
Classmark	BG: 3D: 3A: 74
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