1st Edition
Negotiating Ageing Cultural Adaptation to the Prospect of a Long Life
By Simon Biggs
Copyright 2018
188 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
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The world is growing older and this is a historically unprecedented phenomenon. Negotiating such change, personally, socially and for governments and international organisations requires an act of cultural adaptation. Two key questions arise: What is the purpose of a long life? and How do we adapt to societies where generations are of approximately the same size? A number of pre-existing... Read more
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: The Promise of a Long Life
Chapter 2: Interrogating Personal and Intergenerational Ageing
Chapter 3: Work to the Rescue?
Chapter 4 Is Work Good or Bad for Health?
Chapter 5: Spirit, Belief and the In-between
Chapter 6: Lifecourse, Gerotranscendence and Wisdom
Chapter 7: The Ageing Body, the Social and the Natural
Chapter 8: Anti Ageing
Chapter 9: Dementia
Chapter 10: Family and Generations
Conclusions
Index
Biography
Simon Biggs, PhD. Professor of Gerontology & Social Policy
School of Social & Political Sciences, Melbourne University, Australia.
