UID:
almafu_9959797017502883
Format:
1 online resource (vii, 142 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-4473-1090-X
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1-4473-0523-X
Series Statement:
Ageing and the lifecourse
Content:
This is the first book to address the issue of ageing after a long life with disability. It breaks new ground through its particular life course perspective, examining what it means to age with a physical or mental disability.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 Feb 2022).
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Ageing with disability; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1. Ageing with disability: An introduction; Background; Illness, disability and survival; Ageing and the lifecourse approach; Development of disability policies in Europe; Outline of the book; 2. Time, age and the failing body: A long life with disability; Introduction; Missing perspectives; Studying lives of disabled people over 30 years; A prospective study of disabled lives; With a starting point in working life; A repetitive pattern; Failing bodies: lives with repeated disruptions
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Time and a more synchronised lifecourse Time left; Being old after a long life with disability; Conclusion; 3. Disability, identity and ageing; Introduction; The story of the modern disability rights movement in Sweden; Disability identity; Experiences of disability, ageing and later life; Discussion; 4. Is it possible to 'age successfully' with extensive physical impairments? ; Introduction; Leisurely active seniors with extensive physical impairments; Prerequisites and obstacles; Conclusion; 5. Being one's illness: On mental disability and ageing; Introduction; Early history of psychiatry
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DeinstitutionalisationStandard of living and living conditions for the mentally disabled as a group; Discourses and ideologies of ageing and old age; A life story approach to the meaning of growing old with a mental disability; Life in retrospect; Self-images and self-image transformations; Attitudes to psychiatry and psychiatric care; Growing old with a mental disability; Loneliness and social life in old age; Thoughts on the future; Discussion; 6. In the shade of disability reforms and policy: Parenthood, ageing and lifelong care; Introduction; Looking back
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The care responsibility in later lifeImpact on parents' life and later life; Ageing and death - worries about future care; Conclusion; 7. Ageing and care among disabled couples; Introduction; Studying an invisible group; The lifecourse and everyday life; Time and embodiment; We-work; Conclusion; 8. Living and ageing with disability: Summary and conclusion; Introduction; A long life with disability; Lives in a historical context; The overshadowing illness and disability; Old age after many years of disability; Time, disability and the multi-meanings of care; Concerns about the future
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ConclusionIndex
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4473-0522-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-299-70484-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.51952/9781447305231
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781447305231/type/BOOK
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