Beyond the evaluative lens: Contextual unpredictabilities of care
Publication date: Available online 16 July 2019Source: Journal of Aging StudiesAuthor(s): Aaron T. Seaman, Jessica C. Robbins, Elana D. BuchAbstractSocial science and gerontological research on care tends to focus on identifying practices that qualify as “good care” and promoting interventions that might produce it. In this article, we identify this approach to care as the “evaluative lens.” We argue that while useful, an evaluative approach to studying care can limit scholars' abilities to attend to the complex and disorderly aspects of care in daily life. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research in three distin...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 17, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Geriatrics and humanism: Dementia and fallacies of care
Publication date: Available online 16 July 2019Source: Journal of Aging StudiesAuthor(s): Annette LeibingAbstractBased on fieldwork in a specialized geriatric outpatient clinic in Brazil, this article shows how a humanistic discourse that ‘means well’ can do good, but can also produce a regime of care that ultimately results in care that is contrary to stated values. These values – such as holistic care, multidisciplinarity, and empathy - that have been at the heart of geriatrics since its more official founding in the 1940s and 1950s, cannot be conceived as only local. The Brazilian data mirrors international geriat...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 17, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Converging through difference: A case of empathic incongruence in treatment of an elderly woman with psychosis
Publication date: Available online 16 July 2019Source: Journal of Aging StudiesAuthor(s): Kristina C. Pinto, Sarah PintoAbstractContemporary person-centered psychotherapy often references empathy as a basic component of the therapeutic alliance and, thus, effective treatment, such that nascent clinicians study this basic skill early in training. However, the psychotherapy literature often presumes a collective agreement about how empathy manifests as a clinical tool, in the process institutionalizing the ideal of omnipresent alignment with a client, applied across populations of patients, regardless of their conditions, ag...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 16, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Competing goods and fallacies of care: Moral deliberations at the end of life in the nursing home
Publication date: Available online 11 July 2019Source: Journal of Aging StudiesAuthor(s): Natashe Lemos DekkerAbstractWhile care is often either implicitly or explicitly conceived in terms of “doing good,” the morality of care is more complex than this association would suggest. Nursing home care, in particular, is both characterized by institutional demands for regulation and standardization, and the subjective practices of care workers. These can represent different notions of good care. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among people with dementia, family members and professional caregivers in nursing homes in the Neth...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 13, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Fallacies of care – A short introduction
Publication date: Available online 12 July 2019Source: Journal of Aging StudiesAuthor(s): Annette Leibing, Natashe Lemos Dekker (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 13, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Stop bashing the suburbs: Mobility limitations of older residents are less relevant as connectivity options expand
Publication date: September 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 50Author(s): Stephen M. GolantAbstractMost older persons (age 65 and over) in the United States occupy suburban residential areas. Distinguishing where the older population lives is important because critics argue that the built environments of their suburban communities make it difficult for them to age in place successfully, that is, to have healthy, independent, active, and enjoyable lives. They point to their low population and building densities, long distances separating their residences from services, amenities, and commercial areas, and few tr...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 13, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
The role of super-diversity in shaping the perception of and services for older migrants
Publication date: September 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 50Author(s): Ruxandra Oana CiobanuAbstractPopulation ageing and international migration are on the rise. The common denominator between these two phenomena is the older migrant population, which has been steadily increasing in Northern America and Western Europe. The emergence of this population has been challenging institutional practices and services due to a growth in heterogeneity. Against this background, the paper aims to answer two questions: (1) does super-diversity in the older native population have an impact on the ways in which practitione...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 6, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
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 - July 6, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Older migrants' civic participation: A topic in need of attention
This article aims to expand the social gerontological agenda on civic participation in old age by arguing that migratory life courses offer new angles of investigation. By bringing attention to older migrants' civic participation, this article argues also for the expansion of the imagination of migration scholars who have yet to regard civic participation as an angle of investigation worthy of attention when it comes to this population. Thus, by proposing some of the research questions that could be posed if older migrants' civic participation was to be a part of the research agenda of social gerontologists and migration s...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 6, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Does migration matter? The case of older Russian speakers receiving long term services and supports
Publication date: September 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 50Author(s): Allen Glicksman, Lauren Ring (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 6, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Older migrants reflecting on aging through attachment to and identification with places
Publication date: September 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 50Author(s): Simona PalladinoAbstractWith increasing numbers of older migrants adopting a transnational lifestyle or returning to their country of origin following retirement, the sense of attachment to and identification with the places they inhabit remains an under explored field of enquiry. Through an ethnographic approach, this paper seeks to raise awareness of the diversity within a group of older migrants, given the heterogeneity of affective bonds established with places. By highlighting the perspective of older Italian migrants living in Newca...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 6, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Reading ageism in “geezer and grump lit”: Responses to The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83, ¼
Publication date: September 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 50Author(s): Aagje Swinnen (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - July 6, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
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Publication date: June 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 49Author(s): (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - June 20, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Critical reflections on the blind sides of frailty in later life
Publication date: June 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 49Author(s): Liesbeth De Donder, An-Sofie Smetcoren, Jos M.G.A. Schols, Anne van der Vorst, Eva Dierckx, D-SCOPE ConsortiumAbstractSince the 1970's, frailty emerged as a major theme and has become one of the most researched topics in aging studies. However, throughout the years, the concept ‘frailty’ became susceptible to different interpretations and has been approached by different synonyms, which resulted in a confusing picture. Based on a narrative literature review, this theoretical paper not only attempts to describe these different views on frai...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - June 7, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
“It's the worst bloody feeling in the world”: Experiences of loneliness and social isolation among older people living in care homes
Publication date: June 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 49Author(s): Barbara Barbosa Neves, Alexandra Sanders, Renata KokanovićAbstractLoneliness and social isolation in later life result in social exclusion, reduced well-being, and significant health problems. Yet, we have a limited understanding of the meanings that older people ascribe to loneliness and social isolation, and how they live through and cope with these issues. The scarce research on the topic largely reflects the experiences of older people living in the community. Less is known about the lived experiences of those in institutionalized setting...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - June 7, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
