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Transitions and the Lifecourse
Challenging the Constructions of 'Growing Old'
- 256 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Transitions and the Lifecourse
Challenging the Constructions of 'Growing Old'
About this book
Transitions and the life course: Challenging the constructions of 'growing old' explores and challenges dominant interpretations of transitions as they relate to ageing and the life course. It takes a unique perspective that draws together ideas about late life as expressed in social policy and socio-cultural constructs of age with lived experience. The book is aimed at academics and students interested in social gerontology, policy studies in health and social care, and older people's accounts of experience.
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Table of contents
- About the author
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Part One The context of growing old
- The study of transition in late life
- Critical perspectives on ageing and the lifecourse
- Multidisciplinary approaches toĀ transition
- The intersections of policy, practice and experience
- Socio-cultural constructs of late life
- Part Two Contested models of ageing and late life
- Narratives of transition on ageing and late life
- Rethinking transition
- Social location and āotheredā constructs of age
- The fourth age: impairment in late life
- Future directions
- References
- Index