Negotiating Ageing - Cultural Adaptation to the Prospect of a Long Life

List of contents

Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: The Promise of a Long Life; Chapter 2: Interrogating Personal and Intergenerational Ageing; Chapter 3: Work to the Rescue?; Chapter 4 Is Work Good or Bad for Health?; Chapter 5: Spirit, Belief and the In-between; Chapter 6: Lifecourse, Gerotranscendence and Wisdom; Chapter 7: The Ageing Body, the Social and the Natural; Chapter 8: Anti Ageing; Chapter 9: Dementia; Chapter 10: Family and Generations; Conclusions; Index

About the author

Simon Biggs, PhD. Professor of Gerontology & Social Policy
School of Social & Political Sciences, Melbourne University, Australia.

Summary

This book evaluates four of the most dominant contemporary discourses on the question of long life, explores key conceptual tools for the reconceptualization of the purpose of long life and examines the implications of cultural adaption for the spheres of policy, business and politics as well as identity, meaning and purpose.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Biggs, Simon (University of Melbourne Biggs, Biggs Simon
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9780367431013
• ISBN: 978-0-367-43101-3
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, Personal & public health, Social Work, Social issues & processes, Care of the elderly, Age groups: the elderly, Geriatric nursing, Social and ethical issues, Personal and public health / health education, Age groups: the elderly / old age