“I will never quit dancing”. The emotional experiences of social dancing among older persons
Publication date: Available online 22 May 2019Source: Journal of Aging StudiesAuthor(s): Eva Alfredsson Olsson, Satu HeikkinenAbstractResearch on dancing in later life has mainly focused on the health-promoting effects of dance, including aspects of well-being, while studies focusing on emotions are rare. The purpose of this article is therefore to contribute to research on older people's dancing through examining emotions in social dancing. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 44 older persons. The analysis shows how successful interaction rituals create positive emotions such as joy and pride and contribute to emot...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - May 23, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
From the third age to the third sex: A feminist framework for the life course
Publication date: June 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 49Author(s): Susan PickardAbstractUnderstanding of the latter part of the life course in age studies takes place largely through the lens of the third and fourth ages. Counterposing successful ageing with the failure of the fourth age, there is little conceptual room for the possibility of paradox or the co-existence of good and bad, gain and loss. Sociological studies of the life course also gives little attention to embodied subjectivity, focusing rather on structural and material aspects of inequality. All of these factors mean that women's experience i...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - May 8, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Understanding the vital emergence and expression of aging: How matter comes to matter in gerontology's posthumanist turn
Publication date: June 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 49Author(s): Gavin Andrews, Cameron DuffAbstractRecent years have witnessed the beginnings of a posthumanist turn in critical/cultural gerontology. This is a turn that is partly demanded by, and provides means for illuminating, the posthuman social condition that older people experience in the twenty-first century. That has incorporated contributions from a range of theoretical and empirical traditions including new materialisms, non-representational theory, science and technology studies, arts, performance and sensory studies. A turn that, decentring the ...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - April 29, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Framing and scaffolding as relational caregiving in an institution for people living with dementia
Publication date: June 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 49Author(s): Trude Gjernes, Per Måseide (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - April 15, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Coaches' reflections on the meaning and value of Masters athletics
Publication date: June 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 49Author(s): Noora J. Ronkainen, Tatiana V. Ryba, Callum Tonge, Olli M. TikkanenAbstractMasters sport is a growing social movement offering the opportunity to participate in competitive sports in later life. Although many studies have explored Masters athletes' experiences, little is known about how other actors in the sport subcultures construct meaning in Masters sport and whether their stories work to support or hinder participation. Our study explored the cultural narrative resources and life scripts surrounding sport and ageing that coaches draw upon ...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - April 3, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Social exclusion and community in an urban retirement village
Publication date: June 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 49Author(s): Lori Nielson, Janine Wiles, Anneka AndersonAbstractLarge purpose-built retirement complexes including continuing care options are increasingly popular ways to ‘age in place’ for older people in New Zealand and internationally. Promoted by their corporate owners as a lifestyle choice offering a wealth of activities and social interaction in manicured settings along with security and increasing care on site as needed, these entities offer new ways for wealthier older people to age. Applying an ethnographic approach to a case study residentia...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - March 29, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Co-creativity, well-being and agency: A case study analysis of a co-creative arts group for people with dementia
Publication date: June 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 49Author(s): Hannah Zeilig, Victoria Tischler, Millie van der Byl Williams, Julian West, Sarah StrohmaierAbstractAt the heart of this paper is an exploration of artistic co-creativity involving people with dementia and their partners. Co-creativity promotes a relational approach to creativity which nurtures inclusion and participation. This paper investigates how co-creativity can affect well-being from the perspectives of people with dementia and their carers; and explores how well-being and agency might be usefully reconsidered. The article draws on find...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - March 28, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
The challenge of inclusion for older people with impairments: Insights from a stigma-based analysis
Publication date: June 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 49Author(s): Émilie RaymondAbstractThe intersection of disability and aging often presents obstacles and discomfort for older people with disabilities keen to access mainstream opportunities for social participation. Besides individual situations and preferences – disability-based or not – environmental and social factors may limit full access to participation for older people with disabilities. Although ageist and ableist trends of contemporary ideas of aging have been documented, few studies have examined how those discourses are enacted in the fiel...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - March 16, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Forced continuity: Explorations of biographical narratives in dementia care
Publication date: June 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 49Author(s): Tobias Haeusermann (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - March 7, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
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Publication date: March 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 48Author(s): (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - March 4, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Expanding current understandings of epistemic injustice and dementia: Learning from stigma theory
We describe how theoretical models of stigma align with the current model of epistemic injustice through a consideration of the concepts of ‘stereotype’, ‘prejudice’ and ‘discrimination’, shared by the two models. We draw on current understandings of dementia-related stigma to expand understandings of the epistemic injustice faced by persons with dementia. We discuss how these insights may inform the development of mechanisms to uphold the basic human right to speak, to be heard, and to be believed for persons with dementia. (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - February 3, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Escaping ‘the old fogey’: Doing old age through intergenerational friendship
This study set out to explore and understand intergenerational friendships from the perspective of the older friend.MethodThis research took a qualitative approach using Constructivist Grounded Theory methodology. Twenty-three people aged 65 and over were interviewed in Ireland to attain rich narrative accounts and observational memos were generated.FindingsIntergenerational friendship formed part of the process that shaped the older friends' approach to ageing in their everyday lives (micro level), being influenced by stereotyping and commonly held understandings of ageing and older people in contemporary society (macro l...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - January 31, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Strategies of older couples to sustain togetherness
Publication date: March 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 48Author(s): Jenni Riekkola, Stina Rutberg, Margareta Lilja, Gunilla IsakssonAbstractThe aim of this study was to explore how elderly couples, who are in need of social services in the community, act and reason over time regarding their everyday togetherness. Data were generated through repeated interviews and participant observations with three older couples. A narrative method was used for data generation and analysis. The findings present four parallel narratives illustrating how the couples, over time, strove to continue living their lives in together...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - January 27, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
A logic of choice: Problematizing the documentary reality of Canadian aging in place policies
Publication date: March 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 48Author(s): Nicole K. DalmerAbstractThe home environment is pivotal in the lives of older people, intimately intertwined with one's sense of self and belonging. Aging in place (AIP), continuing to live in the same or familiar place or community for as long as possible not only fulfills a neoliberal and economic imperative but aligns with the wishes of a majority of older Canadians, who prefer to age in place. Despite policies' contributions to differing experiences of aging, the potential bearing of the narratives embedded within AIP or age-friendly poli...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - January 20, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Community-level factors that contribute to First Nations and Inuit older adults feeling supported to age well in a Canadian city
Publication date: March 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 48Author(s): Lauren A. Brooks-Cleator, Audrey R. Giles, Martha FlahertyAbstractDespite the proliferation of age-friendly cities in Canada that are intended to support older adults to age well, there are still many inequalities between groups of older adults, particularly, and of concern for this paper, between Indigenous older adults, who experience colonialism's ongoing impacts, and non-Indigenous older adults. A better understanding of factors that inform these inequalities will help in the development of policies and programs that better support Indige...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - January 20, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
