A paradoxical academic life: What we can learn from having the ‘end’ in sight
Publication date: March 2020Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 52Author(s): Joanne YooAbstractThe ending of a story provides clarity by framing separate encounters within an overall plot. It can intensify focus and feeling, as limited time creates a sense of preciousness. The end additionally calls for new beginnings, as places are vacated for other stories to be told. It is a generative space as new conversations can evolve. The ‘end’ of an academic story contains opportunities for beginnings and vibrant encounters, and academics may be able to explore the richness within an expansive and generative spaces by ha...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - February 8, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Buffer or Blade: Perceived relationship closeness in couples navigating Alzheimer's
Publication date: March 2020Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 52Author(s): Elizabeth Gallagher, Renee L. BeardAbstractGiven the paucity of support from the welfare state, the lion's share of care for American seniors with memory loss is shouldered by their spouses who tend to be older and sometimes are frail themselves. Previous research has bifurcated attention to either accounts from diagnosed individuals or carers rather than understanding the experience within a socio-relational context of sometimes half-century long relationships. The present study was a qualitative investigation of 11 community-dwelling dyads ...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - January 28, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
‘I am making a difference’: Understanding advocacy as a citizenship practice among persons living with dementia
Publication date: March 2020Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 52Author(s): Kishore Seetharaman, Habib ChaudhuryAbstractIn recent years, persons living with dementia have started advocating to have a more active role in shaping policies and interventions that impact their quality of life. In order to meaningfully involve and engage persons living with dementia in decision-making processes, community partners, providers, planners, as well as researchers and healthcare practitioners need to have a better understanding of their experience of living with dementia. Focusing on the lived experiences of dementia and advocac...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - January 22, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Time to care? Temporal variations of agency of the Finnish adult foster carers
This article analyses a hybrid form of housing and care service for older people called adult foster care. In Finnish adult foster care model, an older person moves to a foster care home and is cared for by a semi-professional foster carer who is not related to them. A foster care home is thus simultaneously a personal dwelling and a site of intensive care work which also changes the rhythms and routines of both the foster carer and older person. In the article I ask, how do foster carers express their temporal agency and its variations (identity, pragmatic, life course) through time work? By temporal agency I mean individ...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - December 27, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
The elephant in the living room: Centenarians' autobiographies, co-authorship and narratives of extreme longevity
Publication date: March 2020Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 52Author(s): Mita Banerjee, Julia Velten (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - December 15, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Editorial Board
Publication date: December 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 51Author(s): (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - November 21, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Advancing understanding of person-environment interaction in later life: One step further
Discussion and implicationsThe conceptual framework presented here advances previous theoretical work in P-E exchange in later life by incorporating the constructs of agency and belonging representing the processes, identity and autonomy as outcomes and linking them with the primary components, i.e. individual, social, built environmental and technological factors. Case studies of older adults' representing a range of functional status in multiple settings illustrate the application of the conceptual framework's key components. The framework also explicitly addresses the relevance of the temporal aspect in P-E exchange. (S...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - November 20, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Unravelling the wider benefits of social pensions: Secondary beneficiaries of the older persons cash transfer program in the slums of Nairobi
Publication date: Available online 10 November 2019Source: Journal of Aging StudiesAuthor(s): Gloria Chepngeno-Langat, Nele van der Wielen, Maria Evandrou, Jane FalkinghamAbstractA growing number of low and middle income countries have introduced social pension programs for older people. Research has highlighted that the impact of such programs can extend beyond the primary recipient when funds are shared. It less clear the extent to which such redistribution persists in the lowest resource settings. Using data from a survey conducted in 2016, this paper examines how recipients of the Kenyan Older Persons Cash Transfer Pro...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - November 10, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Demographic aging and biopower
This article also constitutes a reflexive analysis on our practices as gerontologists and on the widespread “successful aging” concept. (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - November 10, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Meanings and feelings of (Im)mobility in later life: Case study insights from a ‘New Mobilities’ perspective
Publication date: Available online 6 November 2019Source: Journal of Aging StudiesAuthor(s): A. Grenier, M. Griffin, G. Andrews, R. Wilton, E. Burke, B. Ojembe, B. Feldman, A. PapaioannouAbstractUnderstandings of mobility and immobility shape research and responses to late life. Yet, the underlying assumptions about mobility often remain fixed on ideas of function and physical ability. The ‘new mobilities’ paradigm shifts this analysis by focusing on the importance and experience of mobility as a thing in itself rather than a means to an end, and to the complex enactments that operate across a range of relationships, s...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - November 7, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Editorial Board
Publication date: September 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 50Author(s): (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - September 14, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Introduction
Publication date: September 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 50Author(s): (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - September 14, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Publisher's Note
Publication date: September 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 50Author(s): (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - September 14, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Introduction: Expanding the gerontological imagination through the study of older migrants
Publication date: September 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 50Author(s): Sandra Torres, Allen Glicksman (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - September 3, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
A matter of life and longer life
Publication date: September 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 50Author(s): Kristin Kostick, Leah R. Fowler, Christopher Thomas ScottAbstractWhile the major scientific discoveries that would extend the length and health of human lives are not yet here, the research that could create them is already underway. As prospects for a world in which extended and improved lives inches closer into reality, the discourse about what to consider as we move forward grows richer, with corporate executives, ideologues, scientists, theologians, ethicists, investigative journalists, and philosophers taking part in imagining and an...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 19, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
