Human ageing and later life

Gender and Ageing (Ageing & Later Life S

📁 Gender and Ageing (Ageing & Later Life Series)

✍ Sara Arber, Kate Davidson, Jay Ginn 📂 Library 📅 2003 🌐 English

This book is a follow-up to Arber and Ginn's award winning Connecting Gender and Ageing (1995). It contains original chapters from eminent writers on gender and ageing, addressing newly emergent areas within gender and ageing, including gender identity and masculinity in later life. Early work on ge

Leisure & Aging: Ulyssean Living in Late

📁 Leisure & Aging: Ulyssean Living in Later Life

✍ Francis A. McGuire 📂 Library 📅 1995 🏛 Sagamore Pub Llc 🌐 English

The authors of this book acknowledge that older individuals today are generally healthier, more financially secure, and more independent than previous cohorts. They have therefore designed a book to help identify ways in which leisure might contribute positively to later life. Rather than leisure be

Ageing, Austerity, and Neoliberalism (So

📁 Ageing, Austerity, and Neoliberalism (Social Perspectives on Ageing and Later Life)

✍ Amy Jones 📂 Library 📅 2023 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

This book explores how neoliberalism and austerity have affected older people living within a deindustrialised town, utilising a Foucauldian approach and an ethnographic methodology.It seeks to bridge the gap between high sociological theory and a research focus upon old

Ageing, Austerity, and Neoliberalism (So

📁 Ageing, Austerity, and Neoliberalism (Social Perspectives on Ageing and Later Life)

✍ Amy Jones 📂 Library 📅 2023 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

Age and Inequality: Diverse Pathways Thr

📁 Age and Inequality: Diverse Pathways Through Later Life

✍ Angela O'rand, John C Henretta, Angela M. O'Rand, John C. Henretta 📂 Library 📅 2001 🌐 English

In the United States, older populations exhibit the highest levels of economic inequality of all age groups. Across all advanced societies, the inequalities observed in older populations stem from structural and individual processes that differentiate the life courses of women and men and yield dist

Age and Inequality: Diverse Pathways Thr

📁 Age and Inequality: Diverse Pathways Through Later Life

✍ Angela O'rand, John C Henretta, Angela M. O'Rand, John C. Henretta 📂 Library 📅 2001 🌐 English

In the United States, older populations exhibit the highest levels of economic inequality of all age groups. Across all advanced societies, the inequalities observed in older populations stem from structural and individual processes that differentiate the life courses of women and men and yield dist

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