Critical Perspectives on Ageing Societies

by Bernard, Miriam

• ISBN13: 9781861348913
• ISBN10: 1861348916
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781847422392
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-05-30
• Publisher: Policy Pr
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Summary

This important new book brings together some of the best known international scholars working within a critical gerontology perspective. Together, they review and update our understanding of how the field has developed over the last twenty-five years and, through the lens of 'passionate scholarship', provide a challenging assessment of the complex practical and ethical issues facing older people, and those who conduct research on ageing, in the 21st century.

Table of Contents

List of tables, boxes and figures	p. vi
Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Notes on contributors	p. x
Historical, theoretical and policy contexts
Critical perspectives on ageing societies	p. 3
Critical gerontology: reflections for the 21st century	p. 13
Using human rights to defeat ageism: dealing with policy-induced 'structured dependency'	p. 27
The re-medicalisation of later life	p. 45
Forms of knowing - participatory approaches
Narratives as agents of social change: a new direction for narrative gerontologists	p. 59
Redressing the balance? The participation of older people in research	p. 73
Revisiting The Last Refuge: present-day methodological challenges	p. 89
The road to an age-inclusive society	p. 105
Future considerations
Justice between generations: the recent history of an idea	p. 125
Progress in gerontology: where are we going now?	p. 139
References	p. 155
Index	p. 177
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