Full Description
Transitions and the life course: Challenging the constructions of 'growing old' explores and challenges dominant interpretations of transitions as they relate to ageing and the life course. It takes a unique perspective that draws together ideas about late life as expressed in social policy and socio-cultural constructs of age with lived experience. The book is aimed at academics and students interested in social gerontology, policy studies in health and social care, and older people's accounts of experience.
Contents
Part One: The context of growing old: The study of transition in late life; Critical perspectives on ageing and the lifecourse; Multidisciplinary approaches to transition; The intersections of policy, practice, and experience; Socio-cultural constructs of late life; Part Two: Contested models of ageing and late life: Narratives of transition on ageing and late life; Rethinking transition; Social location and 'othered' constructs of age; The fourth age: impairment in late life; Future directions
