From Legacies to Futures
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From Legacies to Futures

The Lifeworlds of Older Adults in Europe

  1. 199 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

From Legacies to Futures

The Lifeworlds of Older Adults in Europe

About this book

Older adults want to exercise a sense of control over their relationships, structures and surroundings as they navigate the later life course. Through detailed ethnographic case studies, this book examines the dynamic lifeworlds of a hundred and seven community-dwelling older adults in Europe before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the importance of agency, the frictions between self-perceptions of age and outside impositions and the need to deconstruct old age as a homogenising category. These insights challenge simple narratives of older persons as social burdens by highlighting the complex roles they fill in family, neighbourhood and communities.

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Yes, you can access From Legacies to Futures by Katja Seidel,David Prendergast,A. Jamie Saris in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Cultural & Social Anthropology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. From Legacies to Futures
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Foreword
  5. Introduction. Ageing in a Time of Crisis
  6. Chapter 1. Social Worlds - Living, Learning and Liaising
  7. Chapter 2. Moving through the World
  8. Chapter 3. Working Worlds
  9. Chapter 4. Financial Worlds - Spending and Affording
  10. Chapter 5. Informal Care - Worlds Providing Care
  11. Chapter 6. Formal Care Worlds - Receiving CareFormal Care Worlds
  12. Chapter 7. Legacies and Future Worlds
  13. Conclusions
  14. Epilogue
  15. Appendix
  16. References
  17. Index