Ageing, Insight and Wisdom
Subtitle: Meaning and Practice Across the Lifecourse
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781847425935
Subjects: Aging; Older people
Description: "This book focuses on older people as makers of meaning and insight, highlighting the evolving values, priorities and ways of communicating that make later life fascinating. It explores what creating 'meaning' in later life really implies, for older people themselves, for how to conceptualise older people and for relationships between generations. The book offers a language for discussing major types of lifecourse meaning, not least those concerning ethical and temporal aspects of the ways older people form part of social and symbolic landscapes, and the types of wisdom they can offer"--