Valuing older people

How can we understand older people as real human beings, value their wisdom, and appreciate that their norms and purposes both matter in themselves and are affected by those of others? Using a life-course approach this book argues that the complexity and potential creativity of later life demand a humanistic vision of older people and ageing.

About the author

Ricca Edmondson (died June 2021) was educated in Lancaster and Oxford. After research at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, she is now senior lecturer in the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her teaching and research focus on the sociology of wisdom and the life course, ethnographic methods, intercultural understanding, rhetorical argument and the history of political thought.
Hans-Joachim von Kondratowitz was educated in Berlin, Saarbrücken and Washington University, before working in Munich and Kassel. He is now a senior researcher at the German Centre of Gerontology in Berlin. His interests include international long-term care arrangements, older people and family migration, welfare state and welfare cultures, cultural definitions of ageing, and community projects on ageing.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ricca Edmondson (Editor), Ricca (Department of Political Science and Sociology/Irish centre for Social Gerontology Edmondson (Editor), Hans-Joachim von Kondratowitz (Editor), Hans-Joachim (German Centre of Gerontology and EBSSRS.) von Kondratowitz (Editor)
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.07.2009
• EAN: 9781847422910
• ISBN: 978-1-84742-291-0
• No. of pages: 314
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 244 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 545 g
• Series: Ageing and the Lifecourse Series; Ageing and the Lifecourse; Ageing and the Lifecourse Series; Ageing and the Lifecourse
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories