Editorial Board
Publication date: September 2018Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 46Author(s): (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - August 10, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
The emergence of the creative ager – On subject cultures of late-life creativity
Publication date: September 2018Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 46Author(s): Vera GallistlAbstractObjectivesIn the last fifteen years, research on aging has seen a new interest in creativity in later life. While late-life creativity has often been described as a method to unpack the potential of older adults in the face of demographic change, this newfound interest is arguably linked to the commodification of late-life creativity itself in terms of innovation and productivity. These new modes of creativity might then also establish new ways to age. Has the homo aestheticus spread into old age?MethodTo explore this...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - August 2, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
On the move in search of health and care: Circular migration and family conflict amongst older Turkish immigrants in Germany
This study focuses on circular migration amongst older Turkish immigrants to investigate two main questions: (1) How do perceived health and available healthcare systems in Turkey and Germany determine the structure of circular migration? (2) How is eldercare shaped by intergenerational conflict and exchange relations amongst older immigrants, their adult children in Germany, and their extended families in Turkey? Through the analysis of 40 in-depth interviews, this study finds that while Turkey offers healthier physical, psychological, and religious options, older circular migrants are more drawn to Germany because they p...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 26, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Social and organizational practices that influence hospice utilization in nursing homes
This article shows how staff beliefs and work routines influenced hospice utilization in two nursing homes. In one, 76% of residents died on hospice and in the other 24% did. Staff identified barriers to hospice including families who saw hospice as giving up and gaps in the reimbursement system. At the high-hospice nursing home, staff said hospice care extended beyond what they provided on their own. At the low-hospice nursing home, an influential group said hospice was essentially the same as their own end-of-life care and therefore needlessly duplicative. Staff at the high-hospice nursing home proactively approached fam...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 11, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
The dog that didn't bark: The challenge of cross-cultural qualitative research on aging
Publication date: Available online 1 March 2018Source: Journal of Aging StudiesAuthor(s): Stephan Lessenich, David J. Ekerdt, Anne Münch, Catheryn Koss, Angel Yee-lam Li, Helene H. FungAbstractThe paper addresses the problem of cultural proximity in qualitative cross-cultural research on aging, presenting insights into a methodology of systematic ‘estrangement’. Based on interdisciplinary research on the social time orientations of elderly people in Germany, Hong Kong, and the US, we discuss the question of how shared identities and taken-for-granted assumptions may bias the findings in comparative aging studies. With...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 10, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Contours of “here”: Phenomenology of space for assisted living residents approaching end of life
Publication date: Available online 12 March 2018Source: Journal of Aging StudiesAuthor(s): Ann E. Vandenberg, Mary M. Ball, Candace L. Kemp, Patrick J. Doyle, Meredith Fritz, Sean Halpin, Lee Hundley, Molly M. PerkinsAbstractInformed by theory from environmental gerontology, this study investigates how assisted living residents who are approaching end of life navigate and experience space. Since its development, environmental gerontology has moved beyond the concept of person-environment fit to encompass aspects of place attachment and place integration, processes by which inhabited impersonal space becomes a place of indi...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 10, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Longevity narratives: Darwinism and beyond
Publication date: Available online 15 March 2018Source: Journal of Aging StudiesAuthor(s): Heike HartungAbstractThe essay looks at longevity narratives as an important configuration of old age, which is closely related to evolutionary theories of ageing. In order to analyse two case studies of longevity published in the early twentieth century, the American psychologist G. Stanley Hall's book Senescence (1922) and the British dramatist Bernard Shaw's play cycle Back to Methuselah (1921), the essay draws on an outline of theories of longevity from the Enlightenment to the present. The analysis of the two case studies illust...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 10, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Pushing for miracles, pulling away from risk: An ethnographic analysis of the force dynamics at Senior Summer Camps in Sweden
The objective is to study how the camp leaders handle the dilemma of on the one hand, wanting to push senior campers into participating in challenging activities, and on the other, needing to pull them away, to reduce risk and ensure their safety, as well as how senior campers experience alternately being pushed into and pulled away from activities. What strategies are used by the camp leaders to push the campers to challenge themselves without taking unnecessary risks, and what consequences do these strategies have for the campers? The study was conducted in the form of ethnographic observations at two different camps. Du...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 10, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
A comparison of stepgrandchildren's perceptions of long-term and later-life stepgrandparents
Discussion and implicationsLater-life stepgrandchildren experience more intergenerational transitions than long-term stepgrandchildren. Appreciating and understanding the implications of different pathways to stepgrandparenthood will enhance science and practice with older stepfamily couples and intergenerational stepfamilies. (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 10, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Imagining the 'baffling geography' of age
This article explores later life as a special moment for the imagination, for persons of all ages. If we were to routinely ask ourselves what is the life we hope to be able to look back on, we would increase the likelihood that our ultimate life review would bring us deeper satisfaction. Why, then, do we not devote more attention to imagining our future lives and inviting that vision to help guide us, without which we deprive ourselves of contemplating a life of other possibilities. The article reviews the limited research which has been done on imagining old age, and relates this to data gathered over a twenty year period...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 10, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Unequal access: Applying Bourdieu's practice theory to illuminate the challenges of ICT use among senior citizens in Singapore
Publication date: Available online 1 May 2018Source: Journal of Aging StudiesAuthor(s): Kevin S.Y. Tan, Calvin M.L. ChanAbstractThe following article examines the application of Pierre Bourdieu's Practice Theory in accounting for ongoing disparities in accessing information and communications technology (ICT) in Singapore among senior citizens. As the relevance of Practice Theory is increasingly recognized among both scholars of ICT and ageing studies in modern societies, this article seeks to further contextualize and demonstrate its theoretical relevance and explanatory potential within developed, multicultural and rapid...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 10, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Editorial Board
Publication date: June 2018Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 45Author(s): (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 10, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Editorial for special issue Ageing, body and society: Key themes, critical perspectives
Publication date: June 2018Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 45Author(s): Wendy Martin, Julia Twigg (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 10, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Unacknowledged distinctions: Corporeality versus embodiment in later life
Publication date: June 2018Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 45Author(s): Chris Gilleard, Paul HiggsAbstractThe focus upon the body in the social sciences has had a growing influence in recent years on aging studies. Various terms have been used to explore the relationship between the body and society, of which ‘corporeality’ and ‘embodiment’ have taken pride of place. In this paper, we present the case for drawing a clear distinction between these two terms and the consequences that follow from it for the study of the body in social and cultural gerontology. Central to this distinction is the place of socia...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 10, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
The dynamic nature of gender and aging bodies
Publication date: June 2018Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 45Author(s): Toni Calasanti, Neal KingAbstractTo test a popular belief that men and women become more alike with age, we ask whether and how bodily changes that accompany aging might influence the ways that people do gender. Drawing on theories that view both gender and age as ongoing accomplishments, we use interview data gathered from people aged 42–61 years to ask whether masculinity and femininity become less relevant with age, whether people feel themselves to be less gendered. Our analysis shows, first, that respondents see manhood and womanhood ...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 10, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
