Full Description
This volume presents contributions from academics, practitioners and researchers who reflect on aging and argue that while the financial impact of aging appears to be receiving increased attention, the more personal, familial and communal consequences of aging must also be examined. This collection delves further into the topic of aging as both personal and social phenomenon.
The perspectives the papers engage with range from theoretical to applied. This demonstrates how those perspectives can and must engage with each other. From the invisibility of aging persons, to the manner in which discourses of aging-well rely on normative assumptions, to the ways in which we engage with persons with dementia, to the responsibility of providing care locally and across borders, this collection endeavours to advance aging as a positive challenge that can enrich us all.
Contents
Introduction
Iva Apostolova and Monique Lanoix
1- Hospitality and the Embodied Self
1. The Ethics of Hospitality: Reflections on Aging
Sophie Cloutier, Saint-Paul University
2. The Other within Us: Reframing, with Spinoza, the Self's Relationship with Aging and Disability
Iva Apostolova and Elaina Gauthier-Mamaril, University of Aberdeen (PhD candidate)
2- Aging and the Loss of Presence
3. Aging and the Loss of Social Presence
Christine Overall, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
4. LGBT Elders, Isolation and Loneliness: An Existential Analysis
Tim R. Johnston, Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders
5. Aging and Aesthetic Responsibility
Elizabeth Lanphier, Vanderbilt University (PhD candidate)
3- Dependence and Independence in the Context of Care and Aging
6. Fostering Community Care: Supporting a Shared Experience of Aging in Co-Housing
Magdalene Goemans, Carleton University
7. Dependence and Vulnerability in the 21st Century: The Swedish Case
Hildur Kalman, Umea University
8. Caring across Borders: Lessons from Transnational Families
Marta Rodriguez-Galan, St. John Fisher College
4-Critical Perspectives on Aging
9. The Missing Voices in Aging Well Frameworks: A Postcolonial Critique
Lauren Brooks-Cleator, University of Ottawa (PhD candidate) and Audrey Giles, University of Ottawa
