Cultures of Care in Aging

Thomas Boll, Dieter Ferring, Jaan Valsiner, Thomas Boll, Dieter Ferring, Jaan Valsiner

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781641131377
  9781641131384
• eBook ISBN:
  9781641131391
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

This book is about caring for elderly persons in the 21th century. It shows that care has many facets and is influenced by many factors. Central topics of this book thus include the relation between the person depending on care and the care giver(s), the impacts of caregiving on the family and the larger social context, as well as socio-cultural and political aspects underlying the growing need for and the practice of formal and informal care. It is evident that care as a real-life phenomenon of our time needs the co-operation of multiple disciplines to better understand, describe, explain and modify phenomena of elder care. Such a need for cross- disciplinary research is even more urgent given the increasing population aging and the impending gaps between demand and supply of care. The present book is dedicated to this approach and provides a first substantive integration of knowledge from geropsychology, other gerosciences, and cultural psychologies by a multi-disciplinary cast of internationally renowned authors. Cultural psychology emerged as a valuable partner of the gerosciences by contributing essentially to a deeper understanding of the relevant issues. Reading of this book provides the reader—researcher or practitioner—with new insights of where the problems of advancing age take our caring tasks in our 21st century societies and it opens many new directions for further work in the field. Finally and above all, this book is also a strong plea for solidarity between generations in family and society in a rapidly changing globalized world.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Cultures of Care in Aging
• Editor
• Cultures of Care in Aging
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• IN MEMORIAM DIETER FERRING (1958–2017)
• GENERAL INTRODUCTION: CULTURE IN THE ACT OF CARING: Bringing Geropsychology, Other Gerosciences, and Cultural Psychology Together
• I: CONTEXTS OF CARE IN AGING: DEMOGRAPHIC, HISTORICAL, POLITICAL, AND NORMATIVE ISSUES
• II: INDIVIDUALS’ STANCE TOWARD CARE DEPENDENCY AND CARE
• III: BETWEEN INFORMAL AND FORMAL ELDER CARE
• IV: FUTURE ISSUES
• GENERAL CONCLUSIONS: CARE IN AGING: Cross-Fertilization Within and Between Geropsychology, Other Gerosciences, and Cultural Psychology
• LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS