Search Results

ENGLISH

Transitions And Transformations - Cultural Perspectives On Aging And The Life Course

23,78€ + 10% CARD

 Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses.
ENGLISH

Global Age-Friendly Community Movement - A Critical Appraisal

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 This book provides an introduction to the global phenomenon of the age-friendly community movement, through an extensive collection of international case studies by researchers and practitioners. It explores current tensions in the movement and offers a wide-ranging set of recommendations for advancing age-friendly community development.
ENGLISH

Care Across Distance - Ethnographic Explorations Of Aging And Migration

23,78€ + 10% CARD

 With a broad geographical scope, Care across Distance explores the multiple ways in which care across regional and national borders materializes from and contributes to changes in political economy; family and intergenerational relations; religion and spirituality; ethics and responsibility; and personhood and subjectivity.
ENGLISH

At Home In A Nursing Home - An Ethnography Of Movement And Care In Australia

by Angela Rong Yang Zhang

23,78€ + 10% CARD

 Focusing on contemporary ideas about how aged care is provided, this book poses the question: How can people who are aged and frail live out the final phase of their lives with dignity? In seeking answers, the author examines what it means to be â€˜at homeâ€™ in residential care in a novel and compassionate way.
ENGLISH

Beyond Filial Piety - Rethinking Aging And Caregiving In Contemporary East Asian Societies

23,78€ + 10% CARD

 Known for a tradition of Confucian filial piety, East Asian societies have some of the oldest and most rapidly aging populations on earth. Today these societies are experiencing unprecedented social challenges to the filial tradition of adult children caring for aging parents at home. Marshalling mixed methods data, this volume explores the complexities of aging and caregiving in contemporary East Asia. Questioning romantic visions of a senior s paradise, chapters examine emerging cultural meanings of and social responses to population aging, including caregiving both for and by the elderly. Themes include traditional ideals versus contemporary realities, the role of the state, patterns of familial and non-familial care, social stratification, and intersections of caregiving and death. Drawing on ethnographic, demographic, policy, archival, and media data, the authors trace both common patterns and diverging trends across China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, and Korea.
ENGLISH

From Legacies To Futures - The Lifeworlds Of Older Adults In Europe

by A. Jamie Saris, David Prendergast e Katja Seidel

~~26,43€~~ 23,79€ 10% OFF

 Through ninety-four ethnographic case studies of community dwelling older adults in Europe before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, this book highlights the importance of agency, friction between self-perceptions on age and outside impositions and the need to deconstruct old age as a homogenizing category of belonging.
ENGLISH

Collaborative Happiness - Building The Good Life In Urban Cohousing Communities

by Catherine Kingfisher

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 Understudied relative to other forms of intentional community, and under-recognized in policy-making circles, urban cohousing communities situate wellbeing as simultaneously social and subjective, while catering for groups of people so diverse in age. Collaborative Happiness looks at two such urban cohousing communities: Kankanmori, in Tokyo; and Quayside Village, in Vancouver. In expanding beyond mainstream approaches to happiness focused exclusively on the individual, Quayside Village and Kankanmori provide an alternative model for how to understand and practice the good life in an increasingly urbanized world marked by crisis of both social and environmental sustainability.
ENGLISH

At Home In A Nursing Home - An Ethnography Of Movement And Care In Australia

by Angela Rong Yang Zhang

23,78€ + 10% CARD

 Focusing on contemporary ideas about how aged care is provided, this book poses the question: How can people who are aged and frail live out the final phase of their lives with dignity? In seeking answers, the author examines what it means to be â€˜at homeâ€™ in residential care in a novel and compassionate way.
Collaborative Happiness - Building The Good Life In Urban Cohousing Communities

by Catherine Kingfisher

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 Understudied relative to other forms of intentional community, and under-recognized in policy-making circles, urban cohousing communities situate wellbeing as simultaneously social and subjective, while catering for groups of people so diverse in age. Collaborative Happiness looks at two such urban cohousing communities: Kankanmori, in Tokyo; and Quayside Village, in Vancouver. In expanding beyond mainstream approaches to happiness focused exclusively on the individual, Quayside Village and Kankanmori provide an alternative model for how to understand and practice the good life in an increasingly urbanized world marked by crisis of both social and environmental sustainability.
ENGLISH

Preventing Dementia? - Critical Perspectives On A New Paradigm Of Preparing For Old Age

31,73€ + 10% CARD

 The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible. Although encouraging and providing hope against this feared condition, this claim is open to scrutiny. This volume looks at how this new conceptualization ignores many of the factors which influence a dementia sufferers’ prognosis, including their history with education, food and exercise as well as their living in different epistemic cultures. The central aim is to question the concept of prevention and analyze its impact on aging people and aging societies.
ENGLISH

Beyond Filial Piety - Rethinking Aging And Caregiving In Contemporary East Asian Societies

23,78€ + 10% CARD

 This volume explores emerging cultural meanings and social responses to population aging in contemporary East Asian societies. Drawing on ethnographic, demographic, policy, archival, and media data, the authors trace both common patterns and diverging trends across China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, and Korea.
ENGLISH

Global Age-Friendly Community Movement - A Critical Appraisal

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 A Critical Appraisal.
ENGLISH

Care Across Distance - Ethnographic Explorations Of Aging And Migration

23,78€ + 10% CARD

 With a broad geographical scope, Care across Distance explores the multiple ways in which care across regional and national borders materializes from and contributes to changes in political economy; family and intergenerational relations; religion and spirituality; ethics and responsibility; and personhood and subjectivity.
ENGLISH

Transitions And Transformations - Cultural Perspectives On Aging And The Life Course

23,78€ + 10% CARD

 Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses.
ENGLISH

Collaborative Happiness - Building The Good Life In Urban Cohousing Communities

by Catherine Kingfisher

~~37,79€~~ 34,01€ 10% OFF

free shipping
ENGLISH

Unforgotten - Love And The Culture Of Dementia Care In India

by Bianca Brijnath

133,84€

free shipping

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 As life expectancy increases in India, the number of people living with dementia will also rise. Yet little is known about how people in India cope with dementia, how relationships and identities change through illness and loss.

DIDN'T FIND WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR?

Browse by the menu categories.

Check the search criteria in help .

Finally, if needed, use the we'll search for you .