Contesting aging & loss
By: edited by Janice E. Graham and Peter H. Stephenson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Tonawanda, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9781442600898; 9781442601000
Subjects: Aging; Aldre; Life Change Events; Psychology; Conditions sociales; Personnes agees; Psykologiska aspekter; Reseaux sociaux; Social networks; Sociala aspekter; Social Conditions; Vieillissement; Psychologie; Older people; Social conditions; Social Support; Aged
Other titles: Contesting aging and loss
Description: "Disease and death are a part of life, but so too is being well. The lively voices found in this book are not shy about stating the ways in which the widely held notion that they are in decline has been a far larger problem than many other features of their lives. For students, scholars, and policy makers, the message is to attend to these voices, and to design and build better programs that address the social determinants of healthy aging and social inclusion throughout the life course."--pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued also in electronic format.

Text in English.
Table of contents: title: The experience of loss and the range of contestation  -- Janice E. Graham and Peter H. Stephenson -- Part I Overview: paradigms and perspectives; title: Age and time: contesting the paradigm of loss in the age of novelty  -- Peter H. Stephenson -- Part II Local understanding and knowledge about aging -- how seniors see it; title: Losing and gaining: about growing old "successfully" inthe Netherlands  -- Margaret von Faber and Sjaak van der Geest; title: Empowering knowledge and practices of Namaqualand elders  -- Robin Oakley; title: La Buona Vecchiaia: aging and well-being among Italian Canadians  -- Sam Migliore and Margaret Dorazio-Migliore -- Part III Illness, indignity, and stigmatization; title: Drunks, bums, and deadbeats? A biographical perspective on gender, aging, and the inequalities of men  -- Cherry Russell; title: Dignity and loss: implications for seniors' health in hospitalization narratives  -- Christina Homes and Peter H. Stephenson -- Part IV Embodiments and disembodiments; title: Embodied selfhood: ethnographic reflections, performing ethnography, and humanizing dementia care  -- Pia C. Kontos; title: The science, politics, and everyday life of recognizing effective treatments for dementia  -- Janice E. Graham -- Part V Practices and policies; title: "Them" and "us": building appropriate policies from fieldwork to practice -- Janice E. Graham.