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Róbert Iván Gál, Ichiro Iwasaki and Zsuzsa Széman (eds), Assessing Intergenerational Equity: An Interdisciplinary Study of Aging and Pension Reform in Hungary , Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 2008, 215 pp., hbk €40, ISBN 13: 978 963 05 8562 0.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Book ReviewsJANNA THOMPSON, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Special Issue 08 , pp 1323-1324Abstract (Source: Ageing)
Source: Ageing - October 15, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: journals

Ian Rees Jones, Martin Hyde, Christina R. Victor, Richard D. Wiggins, Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs, Ageing in a Consumer Society: From Passive to Active Consumption in Britain , Policy Press, Bristol, UK, 2008, 160 pp., pbk £24.99, ISBN 13: 978 1 86134 882 1.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Book ReviewsEMMANUELLE TULLE, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Special Issue 08 , pp 1321-1322Abstract (Source: Ageing)
Source: Ageing - October 15, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: journals

Mary Maynard, Haleh Afshar, Myfanwy Franks and Sharon Wray, Women in Later Life: Exploring Race and Ethnicity , Open University Press/McGraw Hill Education, Maidenhead, UK, 2008, 208 pp., pbk £22.99, ISBN 13: 978 0 335 21525 6.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Book ReviewsSUSAN FELDMAN, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Special Issue 08 , pp 1319-1321Abstract (Source: Ageing)
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Carmel Gallagher, The Community Life of Older People in Ireland , Peter Lang AG, Bern, 2008, 384 pp., pbk £44.00, ISBN 13: 978 3 03911 386 6.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Book ReviewsSIMON ROBERTS, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Special Issue 08 , pp 1318-1319Abstract (Source: Ageing)
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Anthony Chiva and Jill Manthorpe (eds), Older Workers in Europe , Open University Press/McGraw-Hill Education, Maidenhead, UK, 2009, 200 pp., pbk £21.99, ISBN 13: 978 0 335 22275 9.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Book ReviewsEMMA PARRY, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Special Issue 08 , pp 1316-1318Abstract (Source: Ageing)
Source: Ageing - October 15, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: journals

Paul Higgs and Ian Rees Jones, Medical Sociology and Old Age: Towards a Sociology of Health in Later Life , Routledge, Abingdon, UK, 2009, 160 pp., pbk £21.99, ISBN 13: 978 0 415 39860 2.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Book ReviewsSTEPHEN KATZ, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Special Issue 08 , pp 1315-1316Abstract (Source: Ageing)
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‘I sort of pay back in my own little way’: managing independence and social connectedness through reciprocityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research ArticlesMARY BREHENY, CHRISTINE STEPHENS, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Special Issue 08 , pp 1295-1313Abstract [Google Scholar]ABSTRACTThere is increasing emphasis in the media, public and policy discourses about the implications of the ageing population on promoting independence and self-reliance in old age, which is linked to the importance of social connection and the dangers of social exclusion. This paper examines how the potentially contradictory moral imperatives of independence and connectedness are managed by older people through reciprocity. Thirty-six interviews were conducted with people aged 55 70 y...
Source: Ageing - October 15, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: journals

Factors influencing the physical activity levels of older people from culturally-diverse communities: an Australian experienceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study assessed the facilitators and barriers to physical activity in older people from culturally-diverse communities, and investigated the predictors of physical activity participation by recruiting 333 older people from seven different communities in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. A survey questionnaire that recorded physical activity and the barriers to and facilitators of activity was interviewer-administered in the participants' preferred language. The data were analysed using bivariate and multivariate inferential statistical methods. Personal barriers to physical activity, such as poor health, lac...
Source: Ageing - October 15, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: journals

What childless older people give: is the generational link broken?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research ArticlesMARCO ALBERTINI, MARTIN KOHLI, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Special Issue 08 , pp 1261-1274Abstract [Google Scholar]ABSTRACTWith the increase of childlessness in European societies, its consequences have become a matter of concern. Studies in this field, however, have concentrated on what childless people lack and need in terms of social, financial and moral support. In contrast, this article focuses on what childless people give to their families, friends, unrelated others and to society at large. Using 2004 data on social support and financial transfers given and received by people aged 50 or more year...
Source: Ageing - October 15, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: journals

Childlessness at the end of life: evidence from rural WalesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research ArticlesG. CLARE WENGER, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Special Issue 08 , pp 1243-1259Abstract [Google Scholar]ABSTRACTAfter the spouse, children are the most likely source of informal support for an older person when the frailties of advanced old age create the need for help. Childlessness may thus be seen as particularly a problem for older people. In general, to compensate for the lack of children, childless people develop closer relationships with available next-of-kin and non-kin. Despite this, in times of need they are likely to find themselves with inadequate informal support. Using data from the Bangor Lo...
Source: Ageing - October 15, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: journals

The wellbeing of childless men and fathers in mid-lifeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research ArticlesPEARL A. DYKSTRA, RENSKE KEIZER, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Special Issue 08 , pp 1227-1242Abstract [Google Scholar]ABSTRACTUsing data from the first wave of the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study conducted in 2002 59 years with different parenthood histories and circumstances: the childless, fathers who live with their children, non-co-resident fathers, and . The gerontological interest is whether there are variations in wellbeing by parenting, and whether they persist in old age. The results showed that fathers have higher incomes than childless men, regardless of their partner history. As regards psych...
Source: Ageing - October 15, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: journals

Inter-vivos giving by older people in the United States: who received financial gifts from the childless?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research ArticlesMICHAEL HURD, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Special Issue 08 , pp 1207-1225Abstract [Google Scholar]ABSTRACTInter-vivos financial transfers from older parents to their adult children are widespread in the United States. Childless people may simply make fewer transfers. On the other hand, because their giving is away from children, their decisions are more complex in that there are multiple potential targets of approximately equal attractiveness. Using data for 1996 to 2004 from the United States Health and Retirement Study, this article examines the differences between parents and childless older people i...
Source: Ageing - October 15, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: journals

What encourages charitable giving and philanthropy?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research ArticlesFRANK ADLOFF, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Special Issue 08 , pp 1185-1205Abstract [Google Scholar]ABSTRACTIn recent years, increasing public attention has been paid to voluntary action, civic engagement and philanthropy. It is in this framework that the growing numbers of childless older people are regarded as a valuable source of charitable giving. In fact, by giving to philanthropic foundations childless donors may develop into pioneers in the field of post-familial civic engagement. The article explores the circumstances under which childless older people adopt this behaviour in both Germany and the...
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Childlessness and intergenerational transfers: what is at stake?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research ArticlesMARTIN KOHLI, MARCO ALBERTINI, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Special Issue 08 , pp 1171-1183Abstract [Google Scholar]ABSTRACTIn this introductory article for the special issue on Childlessness and Intergenerational Transfers, we first discuss the prior research literature and then overview the presented contributions. Up to now, childless older adults have been treated for the most part as both homogeneous and a problematic group. This does not do justice to the different pathways to childlessness: there are those who actively forgo having children, those who defer births so long that they involuntarily b...
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Referees for volume 29, 2009Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Miscellaneous Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Special Issue 08 , pp 1167-1170Abstract (Source: Ageing)
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Volume 29 Special Issue 08Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Special Issue 08 Ageing & Society is an interdisciplinary and international journal devoted to publishing papers on the understanding of human ageing and the circumstances of older people in their social and cultural contexts. It draws contributions and readers from many and diverse academic disciplines. In addition to original articles, Ageing & Society has an extensive book review section, and publishes occasional review symposia and special issues. (Source: Ageing)
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Christina Victor, Sasha Scambler and John Bond, The Social World of Older People: Understanding Loneliness and Social Isolation in Later Life , Open University Press, McGraw Hill Education, Maidenhead, UK, 272 pp., pbk £22.99, ISBN 13: 978 0 335 21521 8.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Book ReviewsJIM OGG, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Issue 07 , pp 1161-1163Abstract (Source: Ageing)
Source: Ageing - September 18, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: journals

Pam Schweitzer and Errollyn Bruce, Remembering Yesterday, Caring Today: Reminiscence in Dementia Care. A Guide to Good Practice , Jessica Kingsley, London, 2008, 224 pp., pbk £19.99, ISBN 13: 978 1 84310 649 4. Habib Chaudhury, Remembering Home: Rediscovering the Self in Dementia , Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 2008, 144 pp., pbk £13.50, ISBN 13: 978 0 8018 8827 4.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Book ReviewsRUTH ELVISH, JOHN KEADY, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Issue 07 , pp 1158-1160Abstract (Source: Ageing)
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Alan Walker and Gerhard Naegele (eds), Social Policy in Ageing Societies: Britain and Germany Compared , Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, 2009, 320 pp., hbk £55.00, ISBN 13: 978 0230 52098 1.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Book ReviewsRANDALL SMITH, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Issue 07 , pp 1157-1158Abstract (Source: Ageing)
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Mo Ray, Miriam Bernard and Judith Phillips, Critical Issues in Social Work with Older People , Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, 2009, 208 pp., pbk £18.99, ISBN 13: 978 1 4039 9125 6. Karin Crawford and Janet Walker, Social Work with Older People , second edition, Learning Matters Limited, Exeter, UK, 2008, 208 pp., pbk £18.00, ISBN 13: 978 1 84445 155 5.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Book ReviewsALISON PETCH, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Issue 07 , pp 1155-1157Abstract (Source: Ageing)
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Relationships between age and gender differentials in health among older people in ChinaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The objective of this paper is to specify the relationships between age and gender differentials in health among older people in China. The data were drawn from the 2002 Chinese Longitudinal Health Longevity Study (CLHLS), which included 15,789 respondents aged 65 or more years. The health indicators included the Activities of Daily Living (ADL) and Instrumental ADL scores, cognitive ability (using the Mini Mental State Examination), visual function, hearing or auditory function, number of natural teeth, self-reported health, and self-reported quality of life. The statistical significance of the age relationships was exami...
Source: Ageing - September 18, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: journals

Socio-economic inequalities in physical functioning: a comparative study of English and Greek elderly menEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examined how different SEP indicators related to the physical functioning of men aged 50 or more years in England and Greece. The data derived from Wave 1 of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Self-reported physical functioning limitations and mobility difficulties were combined and categorised into , and . The SEP indicators studied were: wealth, educational level and occupational class. The findings indicate that respondents with less wealth, fewer educational qualifications and lower occupational class were more likely to ex...
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Ageing, income and living standards: evidence from the British Household Panel SurveyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research ArticlesRICHARD BERTHOUD, MORTEN BLEKESAUNE, RUTH HANCOCK, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Issue 07 , pp 1105-1122Abstract [Google Scholar]ABSTRACTIn Britain, older people have lower average incomes and a higher risk of income poverty than the general population. Older pensioners are more likely to be in poverty than younger ones. Yet certain indicators of their living standards suggest that older people experience less hardship than expected, given their incomes. A possible explanation is that older people convert income into basic living standards at a higher rate than younger people, implying that as people age ...
Source: Ageing - September 18, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: journals

The impact of out-migration on the inter-generational support and psychological wellbeing of older adults in rural ChinaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research ArticlesMAN GUO, MARIA P. ARANDA, MERRIL SILVERSTEIN, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Issue 07 , pp 1085-1104Abstract [Google Scholar]ABSTRACTThis paper examines the impact of the out-migration of adult children on older parents' inter-generational support and psychological wellbeing in rural China. The sample comprised 1,237 older Chinese people aged 60 or more years in the rural province of Anhui, China, who completed baseline and follow-up questionnaires in 2001 and 2003, respectively. The differences between older parents with and without migrant children in 2001 in their support and psychological wellbeing in ...
Source: Ageing - September 18, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: journals

Old age in the Dark Ages: the status of old age during the early Middle AgesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research ArticlesCHRIS GILLEARD, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Issue 07 , pp 1065-1084Abstract [Google Scholar]ABSTRACTThis paper reviews the position of old age in the societies of post-Roman Europe, from the fifth to the 10th centuries. Drawing on both primary and secondary literary and material sources of the period, I suggest that living beyond the age of 60 years was an uncommon experience throughout the early Middle Ages. Not only was achieving old age a minority experience, it seems to have been particularly concentrated among the senior clergy. This, together with the growing importance of the Christian Church as ...
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Developing personal relationships in care homes: realising the contributions of staff, residents and family membersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research ArticlesCHRISTINE BROWN WILSON, SUE DAVIES, MIKE NOLAN, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Issue 07 , pp 1041-1063Abstract [Google Scholar]ABSTRACTPersonal relationships are an integral part of living, working and visiting in care homes, but little research has made relationships the main focus of enquiry, and there have been few studies of the perspectives of residents, staff and family members. The study reported here sought to redress this neglect. Using a constructivist approach, the nature and types of relationships between residents, staff and family members were explored in three care homes in England using com...
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Schools, schooling and children's support of their ageing parents in rural NepalEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research ArticlesSARAH R. BRAUNER-OTTO, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Issue 07 , pp 1015-1039Abstract [Google Scholar]ABSTRACTIntergenerational transfers play an important role in individuals' lives across the lifecourse. This paper reviews theories on intergenerational transfers and social change to inform our understanding of how changes in the educational context that arise from the spread of mass education influence children's support of their parents. By examining multiple aspects of the educational context in rural Nepal, including husbands' and wives' education and exposure to schools, this paper provides new infor...
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Peter Townsend (1928–2009)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
ObituariesALAN WALKER, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Issue 07 , pp 1007-1013Abstract (Source: Ageing)
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Volume 29 Issue 07Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Issue 07 Ageing & Society is an interdisciplinary and international journal devoted to publishing papers on the understanding of human ageing and the circumstances of older people in their social and cultural contexts. It draws contributions and readers from many and diverse academic disciplines. In addition to original articles, Ageing & Society has an extensive book review section, and publishes occasional review symposia and special issues. (Source: Ageing)
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Volume 29 Special Issue 06Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Special Issue 06 Ageing & Society is an interdisciplinary and international journal devoted to publishing papers on the understanding of human ageing and the circumstances of older people in their social and cultural contexts. It draws contributions and readers from many and diverse academic disciplines. In addition to original articles, Ageing & Society has an extensive book review section, and publishes occasional review symposia and special issues. (Source: Ageing)
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Virpi Timonen, Ageing Societies: A Comparative Introduction , Open University Press, Maidenhead, UK, 2008, 224 pp., pbk £21.99, ISBN 13: 978 0 335 22269 8.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Book ReviewsKATE DAVIDSON, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Issue 06 , pp 1002-1003Abstract (Source: Ageing)
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William L. Randall and A. Elizabeth McKim, Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old , Oxford University Press, New York, 2008, 352 pp., hbk £21.99, ISBN 13: 978 0 19 530687 3.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Book ReviewsJILL MANTHORPE, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Issue 06 , pp 1001-1002Abstract (Source: Ageing)
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Rocio Fernández-Ballesteros (ed.), GeroPsychology: European Perspectives for an Aging World , Hogrefe and Huber, Gottingen, Germany, 2007, 264 pp., hbk €29.95, ISBN 13: 978 0 88937 340 2.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Book ReviewsPETER G. COLEMAN, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Issue 06 , pp 1000-1001Abstract (Source: Ageing)
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Rocio Fernández-Ballesteros, Active Aging: The Contribution of Psychology , Hogrefe and Huber, Gottingen, Germany, 2008, 194 pp., pbk €29.95, ISBN 13: 978 0 88937 360 0.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Book ReviewsANN BOWLING, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Issue 06 , pp 998-999Abstract (Source: Ageing)
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Chiara Saraceno (ed.), Families, Ageing and Social Policy: Intergenerational Solidarity in European Welfare States , Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, 2008, 336 pp., hbk £75.00, ISBN 13: 978 1 84720 648 0.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Book ReviewsNIELS SCHENK, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Issue 06 , pp 997-998Abstract (Source: Ageing)
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Body image and self-esteem in older adulthoodEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study investigated several body-image variables and their relationship to self-esteem in a sample of 148 men and women aged 65 Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaire . The results indicated, contrary to a common misconception, that body-image concerns are significant to self-esteem in older adulthood, but that these vary by age and gender. Whilst women appear to develop various strategies to counter the effects of ageing, men seem to be more negatively affected, particularly in relation to body functioning. The findings shed light on the meaning of body image in older adulthood....
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Time, the body and the reversibility of ageing: commodifying the decadeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research ArticlesJUSTINE COUPLAND, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Issue 06 , pp 953-976Abstract [Google Scholar]ABSTRACTContemporary popular culture proposes new ideological associations between time, ageing, the body and personal identity projects. In a range of magazine texts, television shows and associated websites, several commercialised discourses equate ageing, and women's ageing in particular, with the of ageing. They project a version of personal ageing that is reversible and repairable, on the presumption that looking younger is universally a desirable goal and one that can be reached through regimes of control ...
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Dealing with life changes: humour in painful self-disclosures by elderly Japanese womenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research ArticlesYOSHIKO MATSUMOTO, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Issue 06 , pp 929-952Abstract [Google Scholar]ABSTRACTThis paper examines the ways in which older people depict verbally the life changes that accompany old age. It reports a study of Japanese elderly women's casual conversations with their friends, during which they talked about their husbands' deaths and illnesses. A frequently observed discourse practice among old people is (PSD), in which unhappy personal information on one's ill health, immobility or bereavement is revealed and speakers describe themselves using negative stereotypes of old age. During...
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The construction of multiple identities in elderly narrators' storiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article reports an analysis of such discourse practices in stories told about themselves by people aged 80 or more years living in Indiana. (Source: Ageing)
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Writing about age, birthdays and the passage of timeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research ArticlesBILL BYTHEWAY, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Issue 06 , pp 883-901Abstract [Google Scholar]ABSTRACTHow do we experience ageing, how do we interpret changes in our lives and what do we say about the passage of time? The aim of this paper is to present longitudinal evidence about the personal and social significance of birthdays in adult life and, in particular, how birthdays contribute to a sense of ageing. The primary source of data is the Mass-Observation Archive at the University of Sussex. Members of its panel of people living in the United Kingdom were in 1990 invited to write anonymously about celeb...
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Doing change and continuity: age identity and the micro–macro divideEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research ArticlesPIRJO NIKANDER, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Issue 06 , pp 863-881Abstract [Google Scholar]ABSTRACTThis paper is a study of the discursive management of notions of change and continuity in interview talk. It presents selected short empirical examples from interviews with 22 Finnish baby-boomers, and discusses the methodological and theoretical issues that arise. Following a review of the major approaches to the study of age identity, the analytic intersection between qualitative gerontology and discursive psychology is explored. The analysis identifies how the frequent use of a enables speakers simultan...
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Discourse, identity and change in mid-to-late life: interdisciplinary perspectives on language and ageingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research ArticlesJUSTINE COUPLAND, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Issue 06 , pp 849-861Abstract [Google Scholar]ABSTRACTThe papers in this special issue contribute to the growing body of research on sociolinguistic and discursive interpretations of mid and later life by investigating some of the identity affordances and constraints associated with or . The papers here offer qualitative, contextually based analyses of a broad range of data and use various methodological and theoretical perspectives: narrative theory, critical pragmatics, social theory and discursive psychology. The main focus is on the ways in which change...
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Volume 29 Issue 06Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Issue 06 Ageing & Society is an interdisciplinary and international journal devoted to publishing papers on the understanding of human ageing and the circumstances of older people in their social and cultural contexts. It draws contributions and readers from many and diverse academic disciplines. In addition to original articles, Ageing & Society has an extensive book review section, and publishes occasional review symposia and special issues. (Source: Ageing)
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Bob Woods, John Keady, Helen Ross and Clare Wenger, Partners in Care , Jessica Kingsley, London, 2008, DVD, 30 minutes running time, £25.52, ISBN 13: 978 1 84310 675 3. Bob Woods, John Keady and Diane Seddon, Involving Families in Care Homes: A Relationship-Centred Approach to Dementia Care , Jessica Kingsley, London, 2007, 144 pp., pbk £14.99, ISBN 13: 978 1 84310 229 8.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Book ReviewsPAM SCHWEITZER, Ageing & Society, Volume 29 Issue 05 , pp 844-846Abstract (Source: Ageing)
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