From Legacies to Futures: The Lifeworlds of Older Adults in Europe (1) (Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2025
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 216 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781805399506
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781805399513
- Publisher:
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated
- Date of Addition:
- 04/01/25
- Copyrighted By:
- Katja Seidel, David Prendergast, A. Jamie Saris
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Social Studies, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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