Cultural Perspectives on Aging: A Different Approach to Old Age and Aging

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2022

Cultural Perspectives on Aging

A Different Approach to Old Age and Aging

Edited by: Andrea von Hülsen-Esch

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110683042

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Current demographic developments and change due to long life expectancies, low birth rates, changing family structures, and economic and political crises causing migration and flight are having a significant impact on intergenerational relationships, the social welfare system, the job market and what elderly people (can) expect from their retirement and environment. The socio-political relevance of the categories of ‘age’ and ‘ageing’ have been increasing and gaining much attention within different scholarly fields. However, none of the efforts to identify age-related diseases or the processes of ageing in order to develop suitable strategies for prevention and therapy have had any effect on the fact that attitudes against the elderly are based on patterns that are determined by parameters that or not biological or sociological: age(ing) is also a cultural fact. This book reveals the importance of cultural factors in order to build a framework for analyzing and understanding cultural constructions of ageing, bringing together scholarly discourses from the arts and humanities as well as social, medical and psychological fields of study. The contributions pave the way for new strategies of caring for elderly people.

- interconnecting scientific discourses

- new strategies in handling elderly people

- revealing the interdependence between mental attitudes, mind-sets relevant to the action, unconsciously handled stereotypes of age(ing), social praxis

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Andrea von Hülsen-Esch, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Open Access Download PDF	V
Introduction: Perspectives on Cultural Aging at a Glance Andrea von Hülsen-Esch Open Access Download PDF	1
Ethics and Ageing
Personal Growth, Creativity and Transcendence in Old Age. A Psychological Analysis Andreas Kruse Open Access Download PDF	21
Historical Considerations on the Ethics of Aging: Examples from the Sixteenth Century Daniel Schäfer Open Access Download PDF	39
Electronic Health and Ambient Assisted Living: On the Technisation of Ageing and Responsibility Heiner Fangerau, Nils Hansson and Vasilija Rolfes Open Access Download PDF	49
Towards a New Theory of Ageism
Not Your Grandmother’s Ageism: Ageism Across the Life Course Erin Gentry Lamb Open Access Download PDF	65
Confronting Loss when ‘Life Changes in the Instant’: Ageism and Successful Aging in the ‘Case’ of Joan Didion Heike Hartung Open Access Download PDF	81
The Arts and Old Age
Exploring Old Age Through the Theatre: Three British Senior Theatre Companies Núria Casado-Gual Open Access Download PDF	99
A Spinster with a Twist: The Amateur Sleuth and Perspectives on Ageing and Gender in the Sunday Philosophy Club Series Emma Domínguez-Rué Open Access Download PDF	113
± 100: Old Age and New Photography Hanna Baro Open Access Download PDF	129
Performing Age(ing): A Lecture Performance Susanne Martin Open Access Download PDF	149
Opera for Every Age – Opera for People with Dementia Birgit Meyer Open Access Download PDF	163
About the Authors Open Access Download PDF	167
Index Open Access Download PDF	171

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Gerontology, arts & humanities, sociology, psychology, literature, theatre, performing arts; medicine; ethics; gender studies
Pages
- Front matter: 5
- Main content: 172
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 3
- Coloured Illustrations: 16
Keywords: Cultural gerontolgy; arts; ageing; dementia

eBook

Published: November 22, 2021
ISBN: 9783110683042

Hardcover

Published: December 6, 2021
ISBN: 9783110682977