Kommande
Samhälle & debatt
From Legacies to Futures
Katja Seidel • David Prendergast • A Jamie Saris
Inbunden
2139:-
Older adults want to exercise a sense of control over their relationships, structures and surroundings as they navigate the later life course. Through detailed ethnographic case studies, this book examines the dynamic lifeworlds of a hundred and seven community-dwelling older adults in Europe before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the importance of agency, the frictions between self-perceptions of age and outside impositions and the need to deconstruct old age as a homogenising category. These insights challenge simple narratives of older persons as social burdens by highlighting the complex roles they fill in family, neighbourhood and communities.
- Format: Inbunden
- ISBN: 9781805399513
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 216
- Utgivningsdatum: 2025-04-01
- Förlag: Berghahn Books