UID:
almafu_9960707264802883
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 230 pages).) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-4473-3593-7
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1-4473-3595-3
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1-4473-3592-9
Series Statement:
Ageing in a global context.
Content:
What does it mean to age in an ageist society? Applying interdisciplinary perspectives about everyday life to vital issues in older people's lives, this is a critical guide to inform thinking and planning our ageing futures.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).
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Driving a high-tech automobile: the experiences and bodily adjustments of low-tech older driver bodiesDiscussion and conclusion; 9. Dancing with dementia: citizenship, embodiment and everyday life in the context of long-term care; Introduction; The turn to the arts in dementia care; Somatics, dance science and their integration; The ethnographic setting; Ritual and ceremony; Unstructured movement; Discussion; 10. Why clothes matter: the role of dress in the everyday lives of older people; Dress and age ordering in everyday life; Dress and the fourth age; Conclusion.
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7. Closer to touch: sexuality, embodiment and masculinity in older men's livesViagra-inflated sex athletes or impotent old men? Background to the study; Fritz's story: becoming bodies of touch; Lennart's story: illness, touch and the vulnerable embodiment; Edvard's story: laughter, freedom and touch; Conclusion; 8. Ageing bodies, driving and change: exploring older body-driver fit in the high-tech automobile; Broadening the human-machine fit: the ageing body in studies of driver-car interaction.
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Making the exotic everyday in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel filmsThe first Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: ageing, home spaces and the mechanisms of everyday white life; The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: the everyday exotic late life as American dream; Conclusion; 6. Between ageing and ageism: portrayals of online dating in later life in Canadian print media; Introduction; Placing later life online dating in context: media portrayals of ageing; Could (online) romance be a marker of 'successful' ageing?; Methods; Findings; Discussion; Part 2 . Embodiments; Part 2: introduction.
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A departure: the 'therapeutic' environmentConclusion; 4. The ever-breaking wave of everyday life: animating ageing movement-space; Introduction; Traditional perspectives on movement in gerontology: from a determinant of health and wellbeing to a meaningful experience; Towards movement-space in gerontology: the potential of non-representational theory; Happenings, showings and flows in everyday life: the qualities of ageing movement-space; Conclusion; 5. What's exotic about The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel? Cinema, everyday life and the materialisation of ageing; The silvering screen.
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Intro; AGEING IN EVERYDAY LIFE; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Series editors' preface; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Series editors' preface; 1. Introduction; Critical thinking about the everyday; Ageing in everyday life; The chapters of this book; Part 1. Materialities; Part 1: introduction; 2.; Introduction; A material convoy; The convoy in later life; Ageing and the meanings of things; Material agency of the convoy; Conclusion; 3. Reinventing the nursing home: metaphors that design care; Introduction; Ruling metaphors.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4473-3596-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4473-3591-0
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
DOI:
10.56687/9781447335924
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781447335924/type/BOOK
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