Autore	Dolores ón Valpuesta María
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Bristol : , : Policy Press, , 2025
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (267 pages)
Disciplina	305.26
Altri autori (Persone)	GrinshteynErin SkinnerMark LevasseurMélanie NyqvistFredrica CeldránMontserrat VercauterenToon ReuterArlind TorresSandra ChacurKarima
Collana	Ageing in a Global Context Series
Soggetto topico	Social gerontology Older people
ISBN	1-4473-7355-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front Cover -- Civic Engagement in Later Life -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series editors’ preface -- List of figures and boxes -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Section 1 Civic engagement in later life: conceptual and methodological aspects -- 1 A conceptual framework to understand civic engagement in later life -- Introduction -- Civic engagement in later life as a multidimensional phenomenon -- Civic engagement in later life as a multidetermined and dynamic phenomenon -- Civic engagement as a diverse phenomenon -- Outline of the book -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 2 What characterises civic engagement in later life? Micro-., meso-. and macro-level influences -- Introduction -- The role of micro-.level features -- The role of meso-.level features -- Social and physical environments -- The role of macro-.level features -- Macro-.level explanations for cross-.country differences in civic engagement in later life -- Interplay between the levels -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References
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Autore	Lloyd Liz
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Bristol : , : Policy, , 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (vi, 169 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	362.19897
Collana	Ageing and the lifecourse
Soggetto topico	Older people - Medical care - Government policy Older people - Care - Government policy Social gerontology Aging - Social aspects
ISBN	1-4473-0760-7 1-280-67697-3 9786613653901 1-4473-0492-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Health and Care in Ageing Societies; Contents; List of abbreviations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; How the book is organised; 2. Patterns and trends in ageing and health; Introduction; Life expectancy and mortality rates; Causes of death; The 'double burden'; Morbidity and disability; Gender inequalities; Chronic illness, disability and the compression of morbidity thesis; Population ageing and social support; Summary; 3. Understanding health and care; Introduction; Biomedical approaches to health; Health as the absence of illness Functional or instrumental models of health: health as a means to an endPositive conceptualisations of health: the salutogenic approach; Health and identity; Conceptualising care; A lifecourse approach to health and care; The third age-fourth age dichotomy; Summary; 4. The policy process in health and care; Introduction; Policy as process; The context of the policy process: the impacts of globalisation; The ideological terrain: the development of dominant policy discourses on ageing; The political and organisational terrain; Policy implementation: fine on paper but poor in practice? Engagement in the policy process: struggle and compromiseValues and ethics in health and care policies for ageing societies; Equity in health: the capabilities approach; Capabilities and healthcare policies; Summary; 5. Healthy ageing: upstream actions to prevent illness; Introduction; Public health and health promotion; Critiques of the New Public Health and health promotion; Ageing, disease prevention and health promotion; From research to action; Active ageing: the moral message of health promotion in later life; Socioeconomic determinants and social capital; Summary 6. Medicine, ageing and healthcareIntroduction; Health services and health; Population ageing and healthcare systems; Health work migration; Age and equity in access to healthcare; Anti-ageing medicine; Healthcare needs in later life; Dementia; Depression; Secondary prevention in chronic and non-communicable diseases (NCDs); Summary; 7. Care for health in later life; Introduction; Dependence on others: the need for care; Dependence at the end of life; The provision of formal care at the end of life; Conceptualisations of care in policies; Family obligations and unpaid care Policy developments in long-term careGlobal chains of care; Summary; 8. Conclusion; The ethics of care as a framework for analysis; The ethics of care and gerontology; References; Index
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Pubbl/distr/stampa	Basel : , : MDPI, , 2021-
Descrizione fisica	online resource
Disciplina	500
Soggetto topico	Social gerontology Aging - Psychological aspects Longevity
ISSN	2673-9259
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Periodico
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Altri titoli varianti	JAL
Record Nr.	UNISA-996498072203316

Autore	Klein Alejandro
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (165 pages)
Disciplina	305.26
Collana	International Perspectives on Aging
Soggetto topico	Aging - Social aspects Social gerontology
ISBN	3-031-11450-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Intro -- Prologue -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Note About the Methodological and Conceptual Use of This Book -- Chapter 2: Old Age No Longer Anticipates the Unpostponable Sign of Death: The New Social and Identity Models of Older Adults -- 2.1 Quantitative Data: The Ageing Society -- 2.2 Extrapolations to Ageing Society Data -- 2.3 Qualitative Data: The Profound Social and Identity Experimentation of Older Adults -- 2.4 Alberto's Case: The Beginning of Subjective Experimentation -- 2.5 Nelson's Case: Change Is Possible -- 2.6 Joseph's Case: The Frank Subjective Experimentation -- 2.7 Analysis of the Life History Fragments of Alberto, Nelson and Joseph -- 2.8 The Appropriation of the Social Promise and the Future as a Structure for the Constitution of the Subjectivity of the Older Adult -- 2.9 The Political Power of Older Adults -- 2.10 The Breakaway Group of Older Adults -- 2.11 From Emergent Subjectivities to Abrupt Subjectivities -- 2.12 Conclusion -- Chapter 3: The New Dialogues of Grandparenthood from the Social Precariousness and Family Bewilderment -- 3.1 What Is Required of Parental Figures -- 3.2 Bewildered Parents -- 3.3 Today's Family Emerging from Unprecedented Social Change -- 3.4 The (Lost) Meaning of Parenting Today -- 3.5 The So-Called Demographic Transition -- 3.6 The Protagonism of the Dialogues of Grandparenthood -- 3.7 Conclusion -- Chapter 4: The Older Adult, the Social Bond in Transition and the Depletion of the Transmission Capacity -- 4.1 Previous Considerations on the Traditional Social Bond -- 4.2 Social Bond: The Ever-Renewable and Present -- 4.2.1 The Agony of the Social Bond -- 4.3 The Profound Resignification of Old People and the Renewal of the Social Bond -- 4.4 Reconstruction of the Figure of the Ancestor from Grandparenthood. 4.5 The Generational Confrontation of Old People. Exhaustion of the Traditional Transmission of the Social Bond -- 4.6 The Scenes of Disrepute -- 4.7 Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Change to the "Social Order" from the Deconstruction Imposed by the Ageing Society: Social Relations That Become Anachronistic, Social Relations That Are Idealized, Social Relations That Are Denigrated -- 5.1 Social Relations That Are Decisively Reconfigured -- 5.2 The Emphasis on the Capacity for Generational-Transgenerational Confrontation -- 5.3 The Performativity of Generating Change Brought About by Older Adults -- 5.4 Anachronistic Social Relations: The Impossibility of Transmitting and the Discredit of Inheritance -- 5.5 The Instituting-Instituted Dimension of the Social Contract -- 5.6 The Excess of the Machinic Institute -- 5.7 The Support of a Rebellious Institutionally Active -- 5.8 Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Ageism, Disability and Healthy Ageing as Stereotypizing Paradigms -- 6.1 Ageism: Fear of Ageing? Fear of Old People? Fear of What? -- 6.2 History, Theory and Criticism -- 6.3 The Proliferation of Old People and Old Age -- 6.4 On Helplessness as a Stereotypical Paradigm -- 6.5 Ageism from the Paradigm of Healthy Ageing -- 6.6 The Disastrous Experience of Covid-19: Exacerbation and Justification of Ageism -- 6.7 Understanding the Resurgence of Ageism -- 6.8 Ageism: A Surprising Force of Influence -- 6.9 Conclusion -- Chapter 7: Old People, Coronavirus and the Precarious Culture of Precariousness -- 7.1 The Principle -- 7.2 The Coronavirus Discourse as a Renewal of the Hygienist Discourse -- 7.3 The Precariousness of Precariousness -- 7.4 The Taxing Temptation of Hard References -- 7.5 Psychosocial Consequences of the High Subjective, Bonding and Cultural Experience of Older People -- 7.6 And Suddenly the COVID-19 -- 7.7 The Precarious Precariousness of Today's World. 7.8 Conclusion -- Chapter 8: Thanatopolitics, Totalitarianism and Coronavirus: A Tour of Excesses -- 8.1 The Renewed Version of the Black Plague -- 8.2 Disciplines, Viruses and Health Discourse -- 8.3 Health Discourse and Viruses Everywhere -- 8.4 What We Are Talking About When It Comes to totalitarianism. The Obedient-Subject -- 8.5 Cancerous Logic of the Show -- 8.6 The Oppressive Power, the Gratifying Power, the Annihilating Power -- 8.7 Thanatopolitical Precariousness -- 8.8 How Does All This Continue? -- 8.9 Conclusion -- Chapter 9: Insoluble Dilemmas of a Bewildered World -- 9.1 A Social Model That Is Paradoxically Very Unsocial -- 9.2 Insolvable Dilemmas? The Exhausted Social Contract -- 9.3 The Structure of Bewildered Adults -- 9.4 The Mutational Society -- 9.5 Subjective Implications of the Mutational Society -- 9.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 10: Preliminary Hypotheses for a Probability Called Mutational Society -- Chapter 11: Unstable Reasons of a Possible Post-Mutational Society -- Bibliography -- Index.
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