1st Edition
Shaping Ageing Social Transformations and Enduring Meanings
Introduction: Ageing Matters: A Constructivist Perspective
Adriana Teodorescu and Dan Chiribucă
Part 1: Theories and Narratives of Ageing and Old Age
1. The Philosophic Homework of Later Life: On Narrative, Wisdom, and the Positive Potential of Growing Old
William L. Randall
2. Gerontophobia: The Cultural Roots of the Old-Age Anxiety in Contemporary Society
Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Adriana Teodorescu
3. Cougars and Crones: Maverick Archetypes for Older Women
Amanda Barusch
4. Visual Representations of Older Persons: Current Discourses and their Historical Roots
Eugène Loos and Jo Thijssen
5. ‘Positive Ageing Happens in The West’: Ageing Perceptions and Active Ageing Policy Implementation Among Romanian General Practitioners
Irina Catrinel Crăciun
Part 2: Ageing and Old Age in Different Spaces
6. ‘It’s Okay to Color Outside the Lines’: Living, Ageing and Dying in a Hospice ‘Home’
E. Moore Quinn
7. Ageing Behind Locked Doors: Growing Older in Secure Mental Health Care and Prison Settings
Renske Claasje Visser
8. Providing Elderly Care in Precarious Settings: A Case Study in Lima, Peru
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori
9. Risks and Promises of Being Old in Social Media
Adriana Teodorescu and Dan Chiribucă
10. Beauty in Later Life: Voices from Older Korean Women in New Zealand
Saemyi Chung
Biography
Adriana Teodorescu is Associate Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania, and the co-editor of Death in Contemporary Popular Culture.
Dan Chiribucă is Professor of Sociology at Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania.
