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The Environments of Ageing
Providing the first UK assessment of environmental gerontology, this book enriches current understanding of the spatiality of ageing. Sheila Peace considers how places and spaces …
Precarity and Ageing
What risks and insecurities do older people face in a time of both increased longevity and widening inequality? This edited collection develops an exciting new approach to …
Precarity and Ageing
This edited collection develops an exciting new approach to understanding the changing cultural, economic and social circumstances facing different groups of older people. Drawing …
Intimacy and Ageing
To begin new relationships in later life is increasingly common in large parts of the Western world. This timely book, part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, addresses the …
Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Sexualities
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. With an increasingly diverse ageing population, we need to expand our understanding of how social divisions intersect to affect …
Gender, Ageing and Extended Working Life
International contributors apply lifecourse approaches to understanding evolving definitions of work and retirement. They consider the range of transitions from paid work to …
Ethnicity and Old Age
Winner of the Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award 2021. Part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, this book proposes a new research agenda for scholarship that focuses …
Disability and Ageing
Establishing a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue, this text engages with the typically disparate fields of social gerontology and disability studies. It investigates the …
Ageing in Sub-Saharan Africa
This collection of in-depth ethnographic analysis examines the impact of local and global transformations on the care, or lack of care, older people receive in Sub-Saharan Africa. …
Ageing in Sub-Saharan Africa
Featuring case studies from different regions of the continent (Southern, Central, East and West Africa), this book provides the pan-African evidence and analysis needed to move …
Ageing in Everyday Life
Applying interdisciplinary perspectives about everyday life to vital issues in the lives of older people, this book maps together the often taken-for-granted aspects of what it …
Ageing and the Crisis in Health and Social Care
Neoliberal political discourses have normalised the belief in northern European countries that individuals are responsible for their health and wellbeing, regardless of social …