‘I don't really have any issue with masculinity’: Older Canadian men's perceptions and experiences of embodied masculinity
Publication date: June 2018Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 45Author(s): Laura Hurd Clarke, Maya LefkowichAbstractThe article explores what older Canadian men consider to be the definition of masculinity, how they evaluate their own masculinity relative to their definition, and how and why they use particular forms of body work in response to aging and their understandings of masculinity. Data are presented from qualitative interviews with 29 community-dwelling men aged 65–89. The men in our study defined masculinity relationally with femininity and homosexuality and identified three hallmarks of masculinity, nam...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 10, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Dementia and the gender trouble?: Theorising dementia, gendered subjectivity and embodiment
This article discusses how pervasive discourses on a loss of self and dementia as abject are interwoven with a de-gendering of persons with dementia. The cultural anxiety that dementia evokes in terms of loss of bodily and cognitive control could also be linked to a failure to normatively and intelligibly express gender when living with dementia. As a way to sustain personhood for people with dementia and challenge discourses on people with dementia as ‘non-people’, person-centred approaches have emphasised the collaborative work of carers, relatives and persons with dementia. Often implicitly, this also involves a ‘...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 10, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Race, embodiment and later life: Re-animating aging bodies of color
This article concludes by exploring how recent methodological innovations – especially the visual and sensory turn – can offer new ways of understanding the lived experiences of aging bodies of color. (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 10, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Rethinking musicality in dementia as embodied and relational
Publication date: June 2018Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 45Author(s): Pia Kontos, Alisa GrigorovichAbstractWith the biomedicalisation and the pharmaceuticalisation of dementia, music programs, as with other arts- and leisure-based programs, have primarily been implemented as non-pharmacological means to generate social and behavioural changes. We argue that understanding and fully supporting the musicality of persons living with dementia requires engagement with citizenship discourse. Specifically we draw on a model of relational citizenship that recognizes that corporeality is a fundamental source of self-expre...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 10, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Popular music scenes and aging bodies
Publication date: June 2018Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 45Author(s): Andy BennettAbstractDuring the last two decades there has been increasing interest in the phenomenon of the aging popular music audience (Bennett & Hodkinson, 2012). Although the specter of the aging fan is by no means new, the notion of, for example, the aging rocker or the aging punk has attracted significant sociological attention, not least of all because of what this says about the shifting socio-cultural significance of rock and punk and similar genres – which at the time of their emergence were inextricably tied to youth and vociferou...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 10, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Envisioning bodies and architectures of care: Reflections on competition designs for older people
This article explores how assumptions about aging bodies are made manifest in architectural plans and designs. By analysing entries for an international student competition Caring for Older People (2009), we illustrate the ways in which aged bodies were conceived by future architectural professionals. Through analysing the architectural plans, we can discern the students' expectations and assumptions about aging bodies and embodiment through their use of and reference to spaces, places and things. We analyse the visual and discursive strategies by which aged bodies were represented variously as frail, dependent, healthy, t...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 10, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Tracked and fit: FitBits, brain games, and the quantified aging body
Conclusions suggest that new technologies around aging and quantifiable fitness create an ambiguous image of the aging body and brain as both improvable and ‘plastic’ but also inevitably in decline. (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 10, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Tired, but not (only) because of age: An interactional sociolinguistic study of participants' variable stances towards older-age categorial explanations in everyday hair-salon talk
In this study I aim to bring to the fore and explain the variability of stances towards older-age terms and expressions in an ordinary setting, a hair-salon. I explore this variability by scrutinizing in detail cases where older women resist another's use of aging to explain their ailment or complaint, and contrast these with cases where the same women, in the same appointment, themselves invoke older age to explain or intensify their own problem. Drawing on audio-recorded conversations between clients and salon-workers and using the micro-discourse analytic tools of Conversation Analysis and Membership Categorization Anal...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 10, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Active ageing in Denmark; shifting institutional landscapes and the intersection of national and local priorities
Publication date: September 2018Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 46Author(s): Adam.B. Evans, Anne Nistrup, Gertrud PfisterAbstractStudies of governance rarely examine how specific institutional configurations are designed to target specific ‘problem’ groups, including older adults via ‘active ageing’ policies. In Denmark, active ageing policy has been contoured by the Structural Reform of 2007, which drove changes in institutional landscapes at both national and local levels. Rather than representing a ‘hollowing out’ of control from the centre, the Danish Structural Reform comprised a decentralised re-...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 10, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Participation narratives of Third Age adults: Their activities, motivations and expectations regarding civil society organisations
Publication date: September 2018Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 46Author(s): Guido Cuyvers, Fleur Thomése, Theo van TilburgAbstractThird Age adults leaving the labour market are not only armed with broad experience and multiple competencies but also find themselves free of professional obligations while still physically sound. The general theory of Third Age of Laslett sheds a new light on characteristics of ageing adults and their role in society. They are able to engage in society in ways inaccessible to previous generations of older adults. According to Laslett, combining a myriad personal strengths and being ...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 10, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
"No Regrets": Qualitative Evidence on Early Claiming of Social Security Retirement
Publication date: September 2018Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 46Author(s): Lila Rabinovich, Anya SamekAbstractWe conducted focus groups (n = 68) to explore how older Americans feel about their past Social Security claiming decisions. Like most older Americans, our focus group participants claimed Social Security early: about 45% claimed Social Security at age 62, and about 65% claimed before Full Retirement Age (ages 65–66). We might expect that older adults may regret early claiming, since this can result in lower financial security in later life. Respondents reported satisfaction with their decisions to ...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 10, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Resisting decline? Narratives of independence among aging limbless veterans
Publication date: September 2018Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 46Author(s): Nick Caddick, Gill McGill, Jane Greaves, Matthew D. KiernanAbstract‘Maintaining independence’ is a core project for many older people; a project which has received critical attention within aging studies. In this paper, we extend the critique by exploring how aging intersects with disability and militarism as additional critical subjectivities. The empirical focus of the paper is the narratives of older military veterans who had lost a limb either during or post-service. Data reveal the long legacy of military experience in the lives ...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 10, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Themes of care giving and receiving in the interconnecting stories of a mother living with dementia and her adult son: A single-case life story study
Publication date: September 2018Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 46Author(s): Christine NovyAbstractLife story work is generally regarded as a way for people living with dementia to maintain their connection with the past and facilitate meaningful communication in the present. This paper presents a single-case life story study that highlights themes of care giving and receiving in the interconnecting stories of a mother living with dementia and her adult son. The project methodology was informed by ideas and practices from both drama therapy and narrative therapy and, as such, combined a performative approach to li...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 10, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
The role of alcohol in baby boomers' biographical accounts
Publication date: September 2018Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 46Author(s): Emmi Kauppila, Matilda Hellman (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 10, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
God's waiting room: The rise and fall of South Beach as an unplanned retirement community, 1950–2000
Publication date: September 2018Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 46Author(s): Keith D. RevellAbstractBetween 1950 and 1980, South Beach, at the southern tip of Miami Beach, was transformed into an unplanned retirement community by the arrival of thousands of elderly, poor, mainly Jewish in-migrants. South Beach seniors had a profound impact on the local economy and became a dominant force in city politics, profoundly altering perceptions of what was formerly a tourist resort. After 1980, the elderly population of South Beach declined rapidly and effectively disappeared by the turn of the century. This essay traces ...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 10, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
