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Empowering the Elderly?
How ›Help to Self-Help‹ Health Interventions Shape Ageing and Eldercare in Denmark
By investigating how state and economic interests intersect with everyday life, this book provides important insights into the provision of eldercare.
Re-discovering Age(ing)
Narratives of Mentorship
This book offers an analysis of the narrative of mentorship as reflected in various cultural texts, which cover fiction, drama, film, life writing.
Carmen Concilio
(ed.)
Imagining Ageing
Representations of Age and Ageing in Anglophone Literatures
What do literary texts tell us about growing old? Representations of ageing and old age in canonical works of English and postcolonial literature.
Aging and Self-Realization
Cultural Narratives about Later Life
A thorough philosophical critique of dominant cultural views about later life, that aims to offer outlines for more inspiring perspectives on aging.
Line Grenier
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Fannie Valois-Nadeau
(eds.)
A Senior Moment
Cultural Mediations of Memory and Ageing
This book explores how ageing is experienced across the lifespan through studies of practices, objects, representations and narratives of memory.
Heike Hartung
(ed.)
Embodied Narration
Illness, Death and Dying in Modern Culture
From the perspectives of age and gender studies, the volume aims to investigate how embodied experience such as illness, death and dying affect literary form.
Sally Chivers
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Ulla Kriebernegg
(eds.)
Care Home Stories
Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care
Institutional care for seniors offers a cultural repository for fears and hopes about an aging population. The essays in this book challenge stereotypes of institutional care for older adults.
Senior Tourism
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Aging and Traveling
This volume aims to bridge the disciplinary gap between tourism studies and aging studies. It investigates the intersections of tourism and aging from a variety of perspectives.
Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl
(ed.)
Aging in Slavic Literatures
Essays in Literary Gerontology
This volume brings together contributions that investigate aging and old age as represented and narrated in Slavic literatures.
Dancing Age(ing)
Rethinking Age(ing) in and through Improvisation Practice and Performance
This artistic research inquiry develops, discusses, and stages critical practices and performances of age(ing) in contemporary dance.