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El yo soberano: Ensayo sobre las derivas identitarias
by Elisabeth RoudinescoUna reflexión valiente y audaz sobre las trampas de la política de la identidad, clave para entender el estado el mundo de hoy. El fenómeno de la «asignación de identidad» ha ido tomando fuerza en los últimos veinte años, hasta el punto de involucrar a la sociedad en su conjunto. Así lo atestiguan la evolución de la noción de género y las metamorfosis de la idea de raza. ¿Qué ha pasado para que los compromisos emancipatorios del pasado, en particular las luchas anticoloniales y feministas, hayan se hayan replegado sobre sí mismos de tal manera? El derribo de estatuas en nombre del antirracismo es desconcertante, y la violencia con la que se manifiesta el odio a los hombres en el seno de la lucha feminista plantea interrogantes. En décadas recientes, se han reinterpretado hasta el exceso instrumentos de pensamiento ricos y de gran fineza —de las obras de Sartre, Beauvoir, Lacan, Césaire, Foucault, Deleuze o Derrida— para sostener unos ideales nuevos cuya prioridad no es alcanzar una sociedad más justa. En paralelo, la noción de identidad nacional regresa en los discursos de la extrema derecha, habitados por el terror. Estos valoran lo que los identitarios del otro lado rechazan: la identidad blanca, masculina, viril, colonialista, occidental. Identidad contra identidad, por tanto. En esta reflexión valiente y audaz sobre las trampas de las políticas identitarias, clave para entender el mundo de hoy, Élisabeth Roudinesco ofrece algunas pistas para huir del laberinto de la esencialización de la diferencia y de lo universal. La crítica ha dicho:«Una investigación inspirada en la obsesión contemporánea de asignar una identidad a cada persona: un manual de progresismo pragmático».Le Monde «Una obra notablemente investigada que analiza, con talento y meticulosidad, la naturaleza y los peligros de las derivas identitarias, dondequiera que surjan. No era fácil entrelazar los hilos que unen los debates sobre la identidad, el Islam, la República, el colonialismo, etc., para dar sentido a los cambios contemporáneos en la relación con la alteridad. Como historiadora, pero con todos los recursos de las ciencias sociales, la autora consigue el tour de force de arrojar luz sobre el asunto con una coherencia que sorprenderá a la mayoría de los lectores».Nonfiction
El último infierno: Más historias negras desde Puente Grande (Los Malditos #Volumen 2)
by J. Jesús LemusLa estremecedora continuación de Los malditos (con más de 40 mil ejemplares vendidos), libro en el que Jesús Lemus contó su estancia en el penal federal de Puente Grande y cómo logró sobrevivir a condiciones extremas.El Chapo Guzmán - El Güero Palma - Caro Quintero (continúa) - Vera Palestina, homicida del Gato Félix - La Rana, asesino de Posadas Ocampo - Armando Amezcua, Rey de las anfetaminas - Sergio Villarreal, El Grande - Carlos Rosales, fundador de La Familia - Orlando Magaña, el asesino de Tlalpan.Durante su tiempo en prisión su labor de reportero fue la tabla de salvación de Jesús Lemus, la cual le permitió reunir por primera vez las historias de varios de los delincuentes más temibles. En esta ocasión, Lemus se propone seguir adelante en el recorrido, no sólo a partir de las confidencias de otros reos, sino por medio de un detallado testimonio de su vivencia personal. Con el alma en la mano, el periodista describe las emociones más atroces, como cuando recibió una sentencia, lo que representaba su entrada en el "último infierno".Desde la oscuridad de las mazmorras, descubrimos relatos como los del Grande, uno de los principales operadores de los Beltrán Leyva, quien aseguraba contar con la amistad de encumbrados políticos. Asimismo, Lemus encuentra anécdotas estrambóticas en torno a capos de la talla de Caro Quintero o el Güero Palma, quienes participaban en "fugas imaginarias" o puestas en escena a las que los presos se tenían que sujetar para no morir en el encierro.Uno de los puntos climáticos es la narración en primera persona que hace Humberto Rodríguez Bañuelos, el homicida de Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, quien revela de dónde vino realmente la orden de matar al cardenal y expone los argumentos por los que en algún momento se consideró "el mejor asesino de México".La saga de "Los malditos" constituye uno de los testimonios más inquietantes sobre la experiencia de la privación de la libertad, y al mismo tiempo un registro aplastante que deja ver la forma en que el gobierno usa las cárceles como auténticos centros de exterminio.
El último infierno: Más historias negras desde Puente Grande (Los Malditos #Volumen 2)
by J. Jesús LemusRegresa el desfile de los malditos con nuevas historias de los criminales más peligrosos de México. La estremecedora continuación de Los malditos (con más de 40 mil ejemplares vendidos), libro en el que Jesús Lemus contó su estancia en el penal federal de Puente Grande y cómo logró sobrevivir a condiciones extremas. El Chapo Guzmán - El Güero Palma - Caro Quintero (continúa) - Vera Palestina, homicida del Gato Félix - La Rana, asesino de Posadas Ocampo - Armando Amezcua, Rey de las anfetaminas - Sergio Villarreal, El Grande - Carlos Rosales, fundador de La Familia - Orlando Magaña, el asesino de Tlalpan. Durante su tiempo en prisión su labor de reportero fue la tabla de salvación de Jesús Lemus, la cual le permitió reunir por primera vez las historias de varios de los delincuentes más temibles. En esta ocasión, Lemus se propone seguir adelante en el recorrido, no sólo a partir de las confidencias de otros reos, sino por medio de un detallado testimonio de su vivencia personal. Con el alma en la mano, el periodista describe las emociones más atroces, como cuando recibió una sentencia, lo que representaba su entrada en el "último infierno". Desde la oscuridad de las mazmorras, descubrimos relatos como los del Grande, uno de los principales operadores de los Beltrán Leyva, quien aseguraba contar con la amistad de encumbrados políticos. Asimismo, Lemus encuentra anécdotas estrambóticas en torno a capos de la talla de Caro Quintero o el Güero Palma, quienes participaban en "fugas imaginarias" o puestas en escena a las que los presos se tenían que sujetar para no morir en el encierro. Uno de los puntos climáticos es la narración en primera persona que hace Humberto Rodríguez Bañuelos, el homicida de Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, quien revela de dónde vino realmente la ordende matar al cardenal y expone los argumentos por los que en algún momento se consideró "el mejor asesino de México". La saga de "Los malditos" constituye uno de los testimonios más inquietantes sobre la experiencia de la privación de la libertad, y al mismo tiempo un registro aplastante que deja ver la forma en que el gobierno usa las cárceles como auténticos centros de exterminio.
El último que apague la luz: Sobre la extinción del periodismo
by Lluís BassetPresenciamos la decadencia de la prensa escrita y de la cultura tal como la conocemos, y los periodistas tienen la última palabra. El periódico impreso va a desaparecer. Y lo hará pronto, antes de lo que creíamos. Con él van a desvanecerse o transformarse muchas otras cosas. El periódico ha sido durante una larga época la imagen del mundo y su conciencia, la escenificación diaria de la idea de una realidad ordenada y jerarquizada, y un formidable instrumento frente a cualquier poder. Pero los medios cambian porque los ciudadanos que los consumen y usan quieren que cambien. Son los lectores los que están protagonizando el salto a esta nueva era. Este no es, por tanto, únicamente un libro para periodistas, ni un ensayo sobre la crisis de un gremio. La desaparición del periódico impreso dejará un vacío real, no solo en la vida cotidiana sino también en el funcionamiento de nuestras sociedades. Ha llegado el momento de imaginar el nuevo tiempo, de pensar cómo serán la realidad y la historia sin periódicos, cómo se organizarán la libertad y la democracia sin ese pliego de papel que cada mañana llega simultáneamente a las manos de centenares de miles de personas. Con realismo y precisión, respaldado por el bagaje de cuarenta años de experiencia en la primera línea del periodismo y una mirada lúcida y valiente, Lluís Bassets escribe la crónica de los últimos días de la prensa escrita. ¿El estallido de la «burbuja periodística» será también la definitiva señal del fin de la cultura y la democracia tal y como las conocemos? ¿Hacia dónde nos lleva la «efervescencia digital»? Reseñas:«Lluís Bassets mete el dedo en todas las heridas que afectan al periodismo que se ha hecho y que se está haciendo. Ni la prensa tradicional fue el espejo de todas las virtudes, ni la marea digital está por entero contaminada de detritus. O viceversa.»José Andrés Rojo, El País «Escrito con el aire y el ritmo con que Bassets ejerce la literatura de su periodismo, es una obra que te sobrecoge como ciudadano y que te golpea como periodista.»Juan Cruz «El último que apague la luz, que es lectura de emergencia para los miembros de un gremio aún atrincherados en redacciones que nunca volverán a ser lo que eran ##todo deberá ser más modesto##, es, además, una invitación inteligente para reflexionar sobre cuál ha sido y será el papel social del periodismo. Y eso trasciende el estricto interés profesional en tanto que la vigilancia de los poderes que presupone la elaboración rigurosa de las noticias es un ingrediente fundamental para el buen funcionamiento de una democracia.»Jordi Amat, Suma cultural
El último verano
by Diego S. GarrochoLa filosofía como elemento esencial de la vida cotidiana y para la comprensión del mundo. Diego Garrocho introduce en sus textos, con deslumbrante agilidad y hondura, una mirada filosófica que resulta muy poco frecuente en el panorama del periodismo en España. El último verano es una selección cuidada y equilibrada de sus mejores columnas y ensayos cortos, que elude lo coyuntural y aborda la vida y la tensión entre el pasado y el futuro, con un enfoque intelectual pero no exento denostalgia e intimidad. El libro condensa las convicciones del autor, defiende la cultura como único instrumento para reparar el mundo, reflexiona sobre el talento e invoca a figuras como Tennessee Williams, Ferlosio, Leopardi, Aristóteles o Platón. A lo largo de la historia, numerosos filósofos y pensadores han encontrado en el ensayo breve y los artículos un modo idóneo de transmitir sus ideas de manera que, sin perder el rigor conceptual o la fuerza de sus tesis, estas pudieran llegar a un público amplio. Este libro se enmarca en esa tradición, y demuestra que la Filosofía también tiene la capacidad de abordar los problemas de una manera directa y eficaz. El último verano, que puede leerse en clave generacional, ofrece una perspectiva sensible y original sobre el mundo, y es una maravillosa muestra del trabajo en prensa que, desde hace algunos años, Diego Garrocho combina con su labor académica.
Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration
by Rachel SchreiberDuring World War II, Elaine Black Yoneda, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, spent eight months in a concentration camp—not in Europe, but in California. She did this voluntarily and in solidarity, insisting on accompanying her husband, Karl, and their son, Tommy, when they were incarcerated at the Manzanar Relocation Center. Surprisingly, while in the camp, Elaine and Karl publicly supported the United States’ decision to exclude Japanese Americans from the coast. Elaine Black Yoneda is the first critical biography of this pioneering feminist and activist. Rachel Schreiber deftly traces Yoneda’s life as she became invested in radical politics and interracial and interethnic activism. In her work for the International Labor Defense of the Communist Party, Yoneda rose to the rank of vice president. After their incarceration, Elaine and Karl became active in the campaigns to designate Manzanar a federally recognized memorial site, for redress and reparations to Japanese Americans, and in opposition to nuclear weapons. Schreiber illuminates the ways Yoneda’s work challenged dominant discourses and how she reconciled the contradictory political and social forces that shaped both her life and her family’s. Highlighting the dangers of anti-immigrant and anti-Asian xenophobia, Elaine Black Yoneda recounts an extraordinary life.
Elaine May (Contemporary Film Directors)
by Elizabeth AlsopA master of subverting tropes with surgical precision, Elaine May forged a career in 1970s Hollywood with films like The Heartbreak Kid and Mikey and Nicky. Elizabeth Alsop explores the director’s non-conformist and uncompromising vision while looking at May’s films against trends in classic and post-classical Hollywood. Shaped by her background and success in the theater, May brought the biting humor of her improv comedy to her filmmaking. But unfriendly media and a system hostile to both her methods and sensibility consigned her to “director’s jail” after the failure of Ishtar. As Alsop moves through the filmmaker’s four movies, she tracks May’s inventive treatment of favorite themes like hapless male characters and the inanities of American culture. She also considers May’s work in relation to her multifaceted career as a writer and performer. A compelling reconsideration of an iconoclast and original, Elaine May reveals how a surprisingly radical auteur created her trademark cinema of discomfort.
Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures)
by Lisa BhungaliaThe United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the early years of the global war on terror. Some two decades later, this securitized model of aid has become normalized across donor intervention in Palestine. Elastic Empire traces how foreign aid, on which much of the Palestinian population is dependent, has multiplied the sites and means through which Palestinian life is regulated, surveilled, and policed—this book tells the story of how aid has also become war. Drawing on extensive research conducted in Palestine, Elastic Empire offers a novel accounting of the US security state. The US war chronicled here is not one of tanks, grenades, and guns, but a quieter one waged through the interlacing of aid and law. It emerges in the infrastructures of daily life—in a greenhouse and library, in the collection of personal information and mapping of land plots, in the halls of municipal councils and in local elections—and indelibly transfigures lives. Situated in a landscape where the lines between humanitarianism and the global war on terror are increasingly blurred, Elastic Empire reveals the shape-shifting nature of contemporary imperial formations, their realignments and reformulations, their haunted sites, and their obscured but intimate forms.
Elastic Language in Persuasion and Comforting: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
by Grace Zhang Vahid ParvareshThis innovative book examines the discourse of reality television, and the elasticity of language in the popular talent show The Voice from a cross-cultural perspective. Analysing how and why elastic language is used in persuasion and comforting, a comparison between Chinese and English is made, and the authors highlight the special role that elastic language plays in effective interactions and strategic communication. Through the lens of the language variance of two of the world’s most commonly spoken languages, the insights and resources provided by this book are expected to advance knowledge in the fields of contrastive pragmatics and cross-cultural communication, and inform strategies in bridging different cultures. This study highlights the need to give the elastic use of language the attention it deserves, and reveals how language is non-discrete and strategically stretchable. This book will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students engaged in elastic/vague language studies, cross-cultural pragmatics, media linguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics and communication studies.
Elastizität organisieren: Formen und Funktionen von Stellvertretungen in Organisationen (Organisationssoziologie)
by Martin VogelWozu Stellvertretung in Organisationen? – diese Frage ist trivial: Schließlich ist jede/r einmal krank oder im Urlaub. Wenn dann niemand einspringen kann, kann das weitreichende Folgen haben. Wozu also noch diese Studie? – Weil die Frage trivial ist bzw. weil es interessant ist zu beobachten, wie es (in) einem gegebenen Kontext gelingt, ein Phänomen so erscheinen zu lassen, als sei es trivial. Dieser Band leistet einerseits einen Beitrag zum Verständnis von Stellvertretung in Organisationen: die Klärung des Begriffs, die Einordnung von Stellvertretung als organisationale Struktur und die Ermittlung ihrer Funktionen. Zum anderen unterstützt Martin Vogel die Forderung, systemtheoretische Forschung „empiriefähiger“ zu machen und stellt hierfür eine Forschungsheuristik zur Diskussion. Der Titel „Elastizität organisieren“ rückt ein Konzept Niklas Luhmanns ins Zentrum. Mit Hilfe ihrer Stellen können Organisationen auf sich ändernde Umweltbedingungen reagieren, indem sie Stellen neu schaffen, umwidmen, einsparen oder von Beginn an „ambivalent“ programmieren. Das Buch stellt Stellvertretungen als Beispiel dieser „Ambivalenzstrategie“ vor: Auf der Rückseite ihrer trivialen Funktion dienen sie als voraussetzungsvolle „elastische“ Lösung für vielfältige organisationale Probleme.Elastizität zu organisieren ist kein triviales Geschäft.
Elbert County, Georgia (Black America Series)
by Aurolyn Melba HammElbert County, the granite capital of the world, is nestled in the northeast corner of Georgia, in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. The educational and political journey of many African Americans in this county began at Elbert Colored High School. African Americans in Elbert County helped shape their community and their country through sheer determination and faith, in the face of slavery and laws biased against them.
Elder Abuse and Mistreatment
by Patricia Brownell Joanna MellorProvide the most effective service possible to help victims of this growing social problemElder Abuse and Mistreatment is a comprehensive overview of current policy issues, new practice models, and up-to-date research on elder abuse and neglect. Experts in the field provide insight into elder abuse with newly examined populations to create an understanding of how to design service plans for victims of abuse and family mistreatment. The book addresses all forms of abuse and neglect, examining the value issues and ethical dilemmas that social workers face in providing service to elderly abuse victims and their families.Elder abuse and neglect is a social problem of increasing concern to policymakers, practitioners, and researchers in the United States and around the world. Elder Abuse and Mistreatment incorporates health, mental health, and social service perspectives that assist social work and health care professionals with interdisciplinary teamwork. The book examines the Elder Justice Act, the Madrid 2002 International Plan of Action on Ageing, new and emerging practice modalities and international models such as shelter programs and support groups, and the latest research on practice methods, elder abuse with special populations, and interventions with victim-abuse dyads. Topics examined in Elder Abuse and Mistreatment include: abuse reporting statutes the roles of agencies involved in abuse investigations service commonly needed by victims funding sources common impediments to service delivery adult protective services (APS) local, state, and federal policies social and economic inclusion self-determination long-term care and nursing homes consumer fraud and financial abuse dependency and compliance and much moreElder Abuse and Mistreatment: Policy, Practice, and Research is an essential resource for educators and students of social work, nursing, and public health, and for social work practitioners.
Elder Abuse and Neglect in Residential Settings: Different National Backgrounds and Similar Responses
by Frank Glendennina Paul KingstonElder Abuse and Neglect in Residential Settings: Different National Backgrounds and Similar Responses contains insights and examples from other countries where elder abuse and neglect have been recognized as an issue requiring social policy attention. Nursing home employees as well as professionals and policymakers will explore the physical as well as the psychological aspects of neglect in nursing homes. Elder Abuse and Neglect in Residential Settings discusses deliberate physical abuse and more common forms of neglect and abuse, such as bedsores, poor nutrition, improper medication, and vermin infestation. Let this informative guide help you recognize the causes of elder abuse and neglect in order to prevent the same problems in your nursing home.Examining nursing home settings in America, Canada, England, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and South Africa to bring you firsthand accounts of the problems of elder abuse on a multicultural level. It also examines reasons for abuse and neglect, such as poor wages, long hours, low job prestige of nurses aides, and high exhaustion levels that have led to abuse and neglect by even the most caring individual. Through Elder Abuse and Neglect in Residential Settings, you will discover what factors directly correlate to the abuse and neglect of patients by: examining the high turnover rates of the lower-paid nurses aides understanding that well-qualified staff do not choose to work in nursing homes and that often abuse and neglect are committed by nurses aides gaining insight into the risks of physical assault and verbal abuse by patients that nurses aides may endure everyday exploring the psychological aspects of neglect in nursing homes such as, uncleanliness, the lack of attractiveness in the physical environment, inadequate diet, infantilization, and passive neglect, and what can be done to prevent these behaviorsElder Abuse and Neglect in Residential Settings discusses the elements that are significant to the future and quality of residential care. From this book, you will understand the importance of considering the characteristics of the patients and staff as well as the importance of developing gender-integrated and multicultural services. Elder Abuse and Neglect in Residential Settings will prove to be essential in your understanding of the worldwide problem of elder abuse and neglect in residential care and help you alleviate it.
Elder Abuse in the LGBTQ2SA+ Community: The Impact of Homophobia and Transphobia (International Perspectives on Aging #37)
by Gloria Gutman Claire Robson Jen Marchbank Makaela PrenticeThis book describes and analyzes the lived experience of elder abuse from the queer community. It discusses the experiences by transwomen, gay men and lesbians of financial abuse, physical and sexual abuse, homophobic abuse, and neglect within partner relationships, residential care, in home care, and religious organizations. Queer and trans elders have been described as ‘The Silent Generation’, since they have lived through times when their sexual and gender identities were criminalized and pathologized. The book shows that they are far more at risk to suffer abuse and neglect by those they should be able to trust, since they are more likely to have encountered all key risk factors, such as isolation, previous abuse and trauma, and mistrust of the health care system. Their vulnerability has been overlooked and this book addresses that gap. As such, this book provides a great resource to anyone working with elders, including medical professionals, care providers, police, counsellors, and policy makers.
Elder Abuse: International and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
by Jordan I Kosberg Juanita L GarciaHere is an informative overview of the causes and consequences of elder abuse in countries around the world. This book delves into the global problem of elder abuse and identifies similarities and differences that occur from country to country. Elder Abuse: International and Cross-Cultural Perspectives increases understanding of the problem of elder abuse, helping you recognize more easily the causes of elder abuse in your own country and find tactics to counter these causes. Strategies from around the world can help in the development of local community resources and social policies to minimize the occurrence of elder abuse and its impact on the elderly, their families, and all members of society.Elder Abuse: International and Cross-Cultural Perspectives discusses elder abuse in countries ranging from Australia to Finland, from South Africa to Hong Kong, from Ireland to Israel. It addresses the consequences of aging, dynamics of elder abuse, family care of the elderly, formal and informal mechanisms for preventing elder abuse, and methods by which to publicize possibilities of abuse. In each chapter, authors explore: the definition of elder abuse in their country the extent of the problem causes of the problem (as related to values and practices) societal attitudes regarding the existence of the problem private and public efforts to detect and prevent the problem and to intervene where it has occurredElder Abuse: International and Cross-Cultural Perspectives provides the impetus for community resources, social planning, and public resources. It is of interest to individuals who work in social work, nursing, and psychology settings and to those in social science fields of sociology, anthropology, and gerontology. The book can also serve as an enlightening reader for undergraduate and graduate/professional education.
Elder Abuse: Selected Papers from the Prague World Congress on Family Violence
by Elizabeth Podnieks Ariela Lowenstein Jordan I KosbergGet up-to-date information and research on elder abuse-from international authorities!Elder Abuse: Selected Papers from the Prague World Congress on Family Violence is an invaluable collection of the most important presentation papers from the Prague World Congress on Family Violence. This comprehensive book presents the latest research and detailed information on the difficult issues surrounding elder abuse around the world. International experts use a multidisciplinary approach to provide ideas and insights to help provide researchers, educators, and practitioners with practical strategies for dealing with the numerous facets of this disturbing issue. Different types of abuse are explored in detail, including physical, financial, and emotional. This comprehensive source is richly referenced, with helpful tables to clearly explain data valuable to all law and health professionals involved in the issues of elder abuse.Elder Abuse: Selected Papers from the Prague World Congress on Family Violence discusses: grandparents raising grandchildren the elder abuse of custodial grandparents combating financial abuse of elders by others a study of elder abuse within diverse cultures forensic medical examination form for improved documentation and prosecution of elder abuse elder abuse in faith communities older women, domestic violence, and elder abuse elder abuse risk indicators elder abuse multidisciplinary teamsElder Abuse: Selected Papers from the Prague World Congress on Family Violence is essential reading for researchers, educators, practitioners, and policymakers in the fields of aging, health, mental health, social services, adult protective services, domestic violence, law, and criminal justice.
Elder Brother and the Law of the People: Contemporary Kinship and Cowessess First Nation
by Robert Alexander InnesIn the pre-reserve era, Aboriginal bands in the northern plains were relatively small multicultural communities that actively maintained fluid and inclusive membership through traditional kinship practices. These practices were governed by the Law of the People as described in the traditional stories of Wîsashkêcâhk, or Elder Brother, that outlined social interaction, marriage, adoption, and kinship roles and responsibilities.In Elder Brother and the Law of the People, Robert Innes offers a detailed analysis of the role of Elder Brother stories in historical and contemporary kinship practices in Cowessess First Nation, located in southeastern Saskatchewan. He reveals how these tradition-inspired practices act to undermine legal and scholarly definitions of “Indian” and counter the perception that First Nations people have internalized such classifications. He presents Cowessess’s successful negotiation of the 1996 Treaty Land Agreement and their high inclusion rate of new “Bill-C31s” as evidence of the persistence of historical kinship values and their continuing role as the central unifying factor for band membership.Elder Brother and the Law of the People presents an entirely new way of viewing Aboriginal cultural identity on the northern plains.
Elder Care Journey: A View from the Front Lines (Excelsior Editions)
by Laura Katz OlsonWinner of a Gold Medal, 2017 Living Now Book Award in the Caregiving categoryShortlisted for the 2016 Sarton Women's Book Awards in the Memoir category presented by the Story Circle NetworkFor millions of Americans caregiving is the "new normal." For Laura Katz Olson, a respected researcher of long-term care for the aging, Elder Care Journey chronicles the disruption of her world and how it is upended by the ever-increasing long-distance needs of her own mother.A healthy, Senior Olympics medal winner, Olson's mother is slowly and steadily incapacitated by Parkinson's disease and a gradual loss of vision. Thrust into a long-distance caregiving role, Olson finds her previous academic notions about assisting a frail parent increasingly at odds with the reality of the lived experience. In a narrative full of "ah-ha!" moments, tears, sighs, and outrage that will be familiar to many, Olson opens a window into the nursing home and home care industries that consume much in the way of taxpayer dollars, but often fail to deliver quality care. Olson's personal story vividly demonstrates not only the overwhelming bureaucratic barriers faced by care-dependent seniors but also their beleaguered adult children's attempts to ensure their parents' health, safety, and well-being.
Elder Northfield's Home: or, Sacrificed on the Mormon Altar (Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers)
by A. Jennie Bartlett Nicole TonkovichThe practice of plural marriage, commonly known as polygamy, stirred intense controversy in postbellum America until 1890, when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints first officially abolished the practice. Elder Northfield’s Home, published by A. Jennie Bartlett in 1882, is both a staunchly antipolygamy novel and a call for the sentimental repatriation of polygamy’s victims. Her book traces the fate of a virtuous and educated English immigrant woman, Marion Wescott, who marries a Mormon elder, Henry Northfield. Shocked when her husband violates his promise not to take a second wife, Marion attempts to flee during the night, toddler son in her arms and pulling her worldly possessions in his toy wagon. She returns to her husband, however, and the balance of the novel traces the effects of polygamy on Marion, Henry, and their children; their eventual rejection of plural marriage; and their return to a normal and healthy family structure. Nicole Tonkovich’s critical introduction includes both historical contextualization and comments on selected primary documents, providing a broader look at the general public’s reception of the practice of polygamy in the nineteenth century.
Eldercare Issues in China and India (Routledge Studies on Asia in the World)
by Longtao HeThe contributors to this book present case studies of elder care in China and India, and draw comparisons between the two – illuminating some of the key issues facing the two largest Asian countries as they develop rapidly. Caring for the elderly is a major challenge for all countries, and one which is of acute concern for rapidly developing economies. Development tends to run counter to long-established cultural norms of family-based caring and filial piety, even as it also tends to lead to longer life expectancy. Taking a range of methodological and conceptual approaches to understanding these challenges, the contributors present a multifaceted understanding of elder care issues in both India and China. They focus in particular on caregiving within families and at care homes – and the impacts these have on quality of life and the experience of caregiving for both caregivers and the aged themselves. An invaluable collection for scholars and students of gerontology and aging in Asia, that will also be of great interest to scholars with a broader interest in global trends in caregiving.
Eldercare Labor Demand in China and Coping Strategies
by Yali ZhuThis book employs Markov models and propensity score matching methods to analyze the demand for elderly care labor, utilizing data from the China Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS) and World Population Prospects 2022 (United Nations, 2022). The model predicts the health transferring scenario among the aging population firstly, and then the demand for elderly care labor from 2022 to 2058 under a fixed care time demand scenario according to 8-hour working system, as well as national and provincial regulations on caregiver-carereceiver ratios. The accelerated aging process and rapid increase in the younger elderly population will result in a rapid increase in the demand for elderly care labor for the healthy elderly until about 2042, with a 1.5-fold increase. This is followed by accelerated growth in the demand for elderly care labor for the impaired and dysfunctional aging population. Over time, the supply of older adults without care will gradually increase, nearly doubling by 2058 compared to 2022. It is recommended that on the one hand, eldercare labor demand in China can be reduced from the origin by improving the health of the population; and on the other hand, the effective supply of elderly care be expanded by building a modern care service system, improving relevant policies, integrating care resources, and innovating the supply model.
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
by Louise Aronson<p>As revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. <p>For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we've made old age into a disease, a condition to be dreaded, denigrated, neglected, and denied. <p>Reminiscent of Oliver Sacks, noted Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise Aronson uses stories from her quarter century of caring for patients, and draws from history, science, literature, popular culture, and her own life to weave a vision of old age that's neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy--a vision full of joy, wonder, frustration, outrage, and hope about aging, medicine, and humanity itself. <p>Elderhood is for anyone who is, in the author's own words, "an aging, i.e., still-breathing human being."</p>
Elderly Care in India
by S. Irudaya Rajan Gayathri BalagopalThis volume highlights a range of issues underpinning elder care in India, with particular focus on the challenges that India faces in caring for the elderly. In addition to the very limited state support and near total dependence on the family for long-term social care and economic support, the changing dynamics between generations in the family structure and privatization of health care in general create new challenges that need to be addressed. Although care plays a significant role in the well-being of the elderly, there is not much research available from India. This volume draws on field-based evidence and the legal framework in India to understand the ways in which care is organized for the elderly and to locate the main sources of care provision. The book addresses key themes such as shrinking of traditional support base of the elderly, trajectory of old age homes in India and care arrangements for the elderly within the community. Written by academics and practitioners in the field of gerontology, this book is an informative resource for demographers, gerontologists, social scientists studying aging, and human rights and legal experts working with the aged.
Elderly People, Their Medicines, and Their Doctors (Routledge Library Editions: Aging)
by Christopher Smith Ann CartwrightIn the late 1980s, an increasing proportion of all prescribed medicines went to people over 65 years of age, not only because they constituted a growing sector of the population but also because their consumption rate, unlike that of younger people was increasing. This increase was therefore a matter for widespread concern which had until now been largely speculative, as no recent national survey had focused on this issue.Originally published in 1988, Ann Cartwright and Christopher Smith looked at the medicines prescribed for, and taken by, a nationally representative sample of elderly people. The experiences and views of both patients (elderly people) and professionals (general practitioners) are examined and related. What is revealed is how much, and how little GPs knew about the social circumstances and medicine taking of their elderly patients. Evaluation of all the prescribed medicines taken shows the extent of elderly people’s knowledge of their medication and identifies duplications, potentially harmful interactions, contraindications, and inappropriate dosages. Recommendations for action to be taken by doctors, pharmacists, medical educators, and elderly people themselves made this book essential reading for all those concerned with the health and welfare of elderly people at the time.
Elderly Sexual Abuse: Theory, Research, and Practice (Routledge Studies in Crime and Society)
by Eric Beauregard Julien ChopinThis book offers an analytical review of the state of knowledge on elderly sexual abuse and presents new data that will confront some of the accepted ideas and some of the myths associated with this specific form of sexual violence. Sexual violence research has often considered children to be the most vulnerable population. However, another population just as vulnerable to sexual abuse but often overlooked by researchers, is the elderly. Evidence shows that elderly victims are more likely to be attacked by strangers, most likely to be victimized in their own homes, and are usually less capable of resisting a physical attack. Drawing on a large and representative dataset, Elderly Sexual Abuse offers a full and theoretically informed picture of the offenders and their crimes. In addition to a specific chapter devoted to prevention and criminal investigation, the book also connects research to practice, exploring what the findings mean for professionals working with these cases and the criminal justice system. This book is essential reading for all those engaged with sexual violence, victimization, elder abuse, and vulnerable populations.