Corrigendum to “Social and organizational practices that influence hospice utilization in nursing homes” [Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 46, pages 76–81]
Publication date: Available online 16 January 2019Source: Journal of Aging StudiesAuthor(s): Jason Rodriquez, Kathrin Boerner (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - January 17, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Discovering deviance: The visibility mechanisms through which one becomes a person with dementia in interaction
DiscussionExamining dementia in terms of deviance and visibility positions dementia within social processes. This externalisation of dementia, relocating it within a combination of action, situation and audience, may suggest new possibilities for mediating its negative repercussions. (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - December 26, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Using the heterotopic mirror to reveal tensions in public reaction to a photographic essay of eldercare staff and older adults
This article illustrates the way in which eldercare work is made invisible through complex social processes involving sight and site related to contemporary visual and spatial practices of aging and eldercare. (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - December 13, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
“I'm too Old for …” looking into a self-Sabotage rhetoric and its counter-narratives in an Italian setting
Publication date: March 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 48Author(s): Diego Romaioli, Alberta ContarelloAbstractThe aim of this study was to analyze a narrative amply shared in the social and cultural spheres that makes people tend to see themselves as ‘too old for …’ (TOF) making personal life choices or following up their projects. This social construction risks preventing people from taking action to achieve their goals and develop their potential for self-fulfillment, with negative consequences on a personal level. Seventy-eight episodic interviews were conducted with adults of various ages to shed li...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - December 13, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
More than “petty squabbles” – Developing a contextual understanding of conflict and aggression among older women in low-income assisted living
Publication date: March 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 48Author(s): L.M. Funk, R. Herron, D. Spencer, L. Dansereau, M. WrathallAbstractDominant approaches to relational aggression among older adults tend to conceptualize the problem as a behavioral or interpersonal issue, and can inadvertently infantilize the phenomenon as ‘bullying.’ In this article we use a narrative approach and the conceptual lens of precarity to develop an in-depth, theoretically informed analysis of relational aggression between older women in low-income assisted living. The analysis of the narratives of tenants (and a manager) indi...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - November 24, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Places of (in)visibility. LGB aging and the (im)possibilities of coming out to others
Publication date: March 2019Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 48Author(s): Jaroslava Hasmanová MarhánkováAbstractMiddle and older age are usually ignored in the studies of the processes of coming out. This paper analyses the opportunities, and also the barriers which aging brings to the possibility of articulating one's own sexual identity in relation to others. It presents the life-course perspective as a suitable analytical tool for the study of the impact of historical context and the changing social locations within the life-biography. Analysis presented in this paper is based on 19 in-depth interviews with L...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - November 24, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
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Publication date: December 2018Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 47Author(s): (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - November 16, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Making meaning of financial scarcity in old age
Publication date: Available online 13 November 2018Source: Journal of Aging StudiesAuthor(s): Rikke Nøhr Brünner, Sidse Schoubye AndersenAbstractThe purpose of this paper is twofold: first, we explore how older people (aged 69 to 85 years) living on the edge of relative poverty experience their everyday lives, and second, we investigate how they cope with their financial situation. We examine these aspects through 16 life story interviews to understand which paths these older people believe have led them to where they are today. First, we show how the older people highlight events or decisions in their life that mainly...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - November 14, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
“Small places” of ageing in a high-rise housing neighbourhood
Publication date: December 2018Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 47Author(s): Mihye Cho, Tshui Mum Ha, Zhao Ming Tony Lim, Keng Hua Chong (Source: Journal of Aging Studies)
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - November 2, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
‘Third Age’ under neoliberalism: From risky subjects to human capital
Publication date: December 2018Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 47Author(s): Shir ShimoniAbstractIn this paper, I trace the discursive evolution of the phrase ‘Third Age.’ Focusing on its increasing appearances in lifestyle articles within popular Anglo-American print media during the past three decades, I argue that ‘Third Age’ operates as a category of neoliberal governance. More specifically, through the analysis of ‘Third Age’ I uncover a shift in the kind of subjectivity ageing subjects are called upon to cultivate—from subjects imbued with risk for themselves and for society to savvy entrepreneu...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - October 31, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Problematizing the age friendly cities and communities program in Toronto
This article contributes to the literature on Age Friendly Cities and Communities (AFCC) through a poststructural policy analysis of the program in Toronto. The purpose is to propose an approach, rooted in the study of public policy, that can offer a political interrogation into the problems plaguing AFCCs in practice. The approach centres on a basic question: what problem are AFCCs in Toronto intended to solve? A discourse analysis is undertaken on this problematization, using Toronto's age-friendly policy and 77 qualitative interview transcripts with policy actors as key texts. The findings suggest a dominant discursive ...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - October 31, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Unyielding selflessness: Relational negotiations, dementia and care
This article addresses how couples within care relationships engage in negotiations when mutual selflessness is the relational starting point. Evaluation of hypothetical dementia care scenarios offers insights into pressures upon joint decision-making. Strategic interaction models such as ‘the prisoner's dilemma’ focus on how a person's pursuit of self-interested preferences might be impeded by the self-interest of another person. Scrutiny of negotiations within care relationships demonstrates that selflessness can also present significant challenges, as combined strategies of altruistic intent mean that neither party ...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - October 22, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Health, illness and frailty in old age: a phenomenological exploration
Publication date: December 2018Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 47Author(s): Susan PickardAbstractThe aim of this paper is to subject the clinical classification of frailty to scrutiny through exploring, via a phenomenological lens, the lived experiences of older people who meet the objective, or clinical, criteria of frailty. Drawing on a range of published research that explores the heterogeneous experiences of embodied ageing, the paper highlights the continuity of phenomenological structures of experience across successful ageing, normal ageing and frailty, suggesting the permeability and contestability of the ...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - October 18, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Aging bodies, minds and selves: Representations of senile dementia in Japanese film
Publication date: December 2018Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 47Author(s): Edward R. DrottAbstractThis paper examines depictions of senility and related forms of age-related decline in Japanese film, literature, and other media, relative to their popular representation in North America. While medicalized concepts of senile dementia, especially Alzheimer's disease (Arutsuhaimā shō), are well known in Japan, symptoms of deterioration among the elderly are still commonly framed as “boke”—a folk-medical category associated more with a loss of social graces than with cognitive decline. Whereas senile dementia ...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - October 5, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Smart eldercare in Singapore: Negotiating agency and apathy at the margins
Publication date: December 2018Source: Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 47Author(s): Lily Kong, Orlando WoodsAbstractAround the world, smart technologies are being embraced as a cost-efficient means of enabling the elderly to be cared for in new, more non-proximate ways. They can facilitate ageing-in-place, and have the potential to relieve pressure on the providers of care. Yet, the fact is that the interface of technology and society is a negotiated one. These negotiations are most acutely felt when technology is used to supplement the hitherto human-centred process of caregiving, especially amongst “marginalised” so...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - August 19, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
