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| Critical perspectives on ageing societies | | Author(s) | Miriam Bernard, Thomas Scharf |
| Publisher | The Policy Press, Bristol, 2007 |
| Pages | 186 pp (Ageing and the lifecourse series) |
| Source | Marston Book Services, PO Box 269, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4YN. Email: direct.orders@marston.co.uk Website: http://www.policypress.org.uk |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Social policy ; Theory ; Research ; Methodology. |
| Annotation | Contributions from British and American academics offer a critical gerontological perspective that reviews and updates our understanding of ageing research over the last 25 years. Ten papers are arranged in three parts. In Part 1, on historical, theoretical and policy contexts, the editors introduce critical perspectives on an ageing society. Three further papers consider critical gerontology; using human rights to defeat ageism (and dealing with policy-induced "structured dependency"); and the re-medicalisation of later life. Part 2 - on forms of knowing and participatory approaches - includes papers of particular interest to narrative gerontologists, feminists and those involved with older people participating in research. A chapter on revisiting "The Last Refuge" outlines a follow-up study of what has happened to the 173 homes visited by Peter Townsend in his research in 1962. In "The road to an age-inclusive society", contributors from the Centre for Ageing and Biographical Research (CABS) at the Open University (OU) look at methods for examining age discrimination and ageism. The two papers in Part 3, on future considerations, look at justice between generations and progress in gerontology since 1987. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070905201 B |
| Classmark | BG: TM2: 4D: 3A: 3D |
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