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"Los editores presentan 12 capítulos con una abanico importante de temas relacionados con el pensar y actuar en el envejecimiento, con ciertos énfasis en el edadismo, el género y la vejez, la interseccionalidad, el uso de drogas en personas mayores, la odontogeriatría, las nuevas formas de violencia en la vejez, prácticas de ciudados domiciliarios, intervenciones socioeducativas y psicogerontológicas, y la valoración multidimensional del envejecimiento. Con colaboraciones de Argentina, Ecuador, chile y España este libro emerge una revisión propositiva de los procesos de envejecimiento y sus implicancias en las actuaciones que han de acompañar el desarrollo de los adultos mayores."--Back cover.
From the laughing clubs of India and robotic granny minders of Japan to the "Flexsecurity" system of Denmark and the elderscapes of Florida, experts in this collection bring readers cutting-edge and future-focused approaches to our aging population worldwide. In this fourth edition of an award-winning text on the consequences of global aging, a team of expert anthropologists and other social scientists presents the issues and possible solutions as our population over age 60 rises to double that of the year 2000. Chapters describe how the consequences of global aging will influence life in the 21st century in relation to biological limits on the human life span, cultural construction of the life cycle, generational exchange and kinship, makeup of households and community, and attitudes toward disability and death. This completely revised edition includes 20 new chapters covering China, Japan, Denmark, India, West and East Africa, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru, indigenous Amazonia, rural Italy, and the ethnic landscape of the United States. A popular feature is an integrated set of web book chapters listed in the contents, discussed in chapter introductions, and available on the book's web site.
La doctora Inmaculada de la Serna de Pedro, especialista en Psiquiatría nos presenta este libro que puede resultar de interés a personal de nivel cultural medio que recapaciten sobre la vejez y su entorno, precisamente en tiempos en que la vida se ha alargado de manera notable. A través del texto, los ancianos y sus familiares pueden encontrar respuestas a sus preguntas e inquietudes. Por su parte, a los profesionales de la salud, en particular aquellos que se afanan en este núcleo de población, se les orienta hacia una actitud adecuada respecto a su labor. Dentro de estos profesionales se encuentran los médicos, en especial los de Atención Primaria, geriatras y psiquiatras, psicólogos, trabajadores sociales y ATS. INDICE: La vejez a través de la historia. Vejez y antropología. La vejez en las letras y las artes. Sociodemografía de la vejez. Economía y vejez. Vejez y psicología. Salud y enfermedad en el anciano. Muerte y duelo. Aspectos éticos y legales en vejez y demencia. Bibliografía.
Aging in America traces the story of aging over the course of the last half century, demonstrating our culture's negative attitudes toward a natural and inevitable human process and offering a deep understanding of the subject's past in order to help anticipate its future.
'The book could open up a fruitful controversy in social gerontology and should become part of the library of every social gerontologist' -- Contemporary Sociology 'A unique contribution to cross-cultural studies in aging' -- Choice 'Worthwhile reading for any human service professional dealing with the aged' -- Social Work
What does it mean to grow old in America today? Is 'successful aging' our responsibility? What will happen if we fail to 'grow old gracefully'? Especially for women, the onus on the aging population in the United States is growing rather than diminishing. Gender, race, and sexual orientation have been reinterpreted as socially constructed phenomena, yet aging is still seen through physically constructed lenses. The second edition of Margaret Cruikshank's Learning to Be Old helps put aging in a new light, neither romanticizing nor demonizing it. Featuring new research and analysis, expanded sections on gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender aging and critical gerontology, and an updated chapter on feminist gerontology, the second edition even more thoroughly than the first looks at the variety of different forces affecting the progress of aging. Cruikshank pays special attention to the fears and taboos, multicultural traditions, and the medicalization and politicization of natural processes that inform our understanding of age. Through it all, we learn a better way to inhabit our age whatever it is.
Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses. It presents a broad range of ethnographic work, introducing a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches to studying life-course transitions in conjunction with broader sociocultural transformations. Through detailed accounts, in such diverse settings as nursing homes in Sri Lanka, a factory in Massachusetts, cemeteries in Japan and clinics in Mexico, the authors explore not simply our understandings of growing older, but the interweaving of individual maturity and intergenerational relationships, social and economic institutions, and intimate experiences of gender, identity, and the body.
This is the first of three volumes on Aging conceived for the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Leading scholars from a range of disciplines contest some of the predominant paradigms on aging, and critically assess modern trends in social health policy.
We all have a finite life-span. We are born, we get old and we die. Given the universiality of the ageing process, it is remarkable that there is almost a complete absence of study of culture and self-image of the middle aged and old. Images of Ageing: Cultural Representations of Later Life changes this. The contributors discuss images of ageing which have come to circulate in the advanced industrial societies today. They address themes such as: body and self image in everyday interaction; experience and identity on old age; advertising and consumer culture images of the elderly; images of ageing used by Government agencies in health education campaigns; the diversity of historical representations of the elderly; gender images of ageing; images of senility and second childhood; images of health, illness and death.