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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 4, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

The role of alcohol in baby boomers' biographical accounts
Publication date: September 2018 Source:Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 46 Author(s): Emmi Kauppila, Matilda Hellman (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 3, 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 2018 Source:Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 46 Author(s): Christine Novy Life 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 life ...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - June 28, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Resisting decline? Narratives of independence among aging limbless veterans
Publication date: September 2018 Source:Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 46 Author(s): Nick Caddick, Gill McGill, Jane Greaves, Matthew D. Kiernan ‘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 - June 23, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research