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Active Ageing
Download PDF for free from: http://martenscentre.eu/publications/active-ageing-solidarity-and-responsibility-ageing-society Current demographic changes are a major factor in the increasing societal interest in the contributions older generations can make to the development and cohesion of society. This study argues that the traditional view of ageing is gradually being replaced by a new perspective, one with increased focus on older people's capabilities, resources and potentials. It suggests that population ageing does not imply inevitable declines in a society's competitiveness or reduced intergenerational solidarity. Amongst other policy recommendations, the study proposes flexibility in age limits, to prevent exclusion of older people from areas of societal responsibility. The study encourages a stronger focus on the productive participation of older people in political and public discourse, and support for civil engagement of older people through mechanisms such as incentive systems.
Middle Adulthood
Willis (Pennsylvania State U.) and Martin's (U. of Zurich) text considers facets of life from age 40 to 65. Taking a multicultural perspective, it addresses topics including the emergence of middle age as a normative developmental period in the life course; change and stability in personality during middle age; and cognitive development and decline
Aging and Human Nature
This book focuses on ageing as a topic of philosophical, theological, and historical anthropology. It provides a systematic inventory of fundamental theoretical questions and assumptions involved in the discussion of ageing and old age. What does it mean for human beings to grow old and become more vulnerable and dependent? How can we understand the manifestations of ageing and old age in the human body? How should we interpret the processes of change in the temporal course of a human life? What impact does old age have on the social dimensions of human existence? In order to tackle these questions, the volume brings together internationally distinguished scholars from the fields of philosop...
Die Grenzgänge des Johann Sebastian Bach
In Johann Sebastian Bachs Musik werden Grenzgänge hörbar, die unser Leben begleiten: In seiner Kirchenmusik wird die Grenze zwischen Weltlichem und Göttlichem an vielen Themen durchgespielt, und in der „Kunst der Fuge“ glaubt man den Tod zu hören, wenn eine Stimme nach der anderen verklingt. Andreas Kruse, führender Altersforscher, Gerontopsychologe und ausgebildeter Musiker beschreibt in diesem faszinierenden Buch die Grenzgänge des alten Bach als kreative und auch psychologisch spannende Lebenskunst. Johann Sebastian Bach als biografisches Fallbeispiel für Krisenbewältigung im Leben wird beim Lesen zu einer psychologischen Entdeckung, die auch beim musikalischen Spätwerk aufhorchen lässt.
Planning Later Life
This book examines the relevance of modern medicine and healthcare in shaping the lives of elderly persons and the practices and institutions of ageing societies. Combining individual and social dimensions, Planning Later Life discusses the ethical, social, and political consequences of increasing life expectancies and demographic change in the context of biomedicine and public health. By focusing on the field of biomedicine and healthcare, the authors engage readers in a dialogue on the ethical and social implications of recent trends in dementia research and care, advance healthcare planning, or the rise of anti-ageing medicine and prevention. Bringing together the largely separated debate...
The Other '68
The book is a new, revisionist account of Sixties protest movements in West Germany. It challenges established narratives centring male intellectuals by foregrounding families, private lives, women, and old people. Worked from a wealth of new archival sources, the book argues that '1968' was just as much about gender conflict as it was about generational conflict--even if the former was often erased from public memory. The narrative follows three generations of Germans living in the provincial town of Bonn through the turbulent years of the late 1960s. It offers a genuine social history of the period, decentring the story of West Germany's 68 socially, geographically, and generationally. The...
The Ages of Life
The binary construction of »young« and »old«, which is based on a biogerontological model of aging as decline, can be redefined as the ambiguity of aging from a cultural studies perspective. This concept enables an analysis of the social functions of images of aging with the aim of providing a basis for interdisciplinary exchange on gerontological research. The articles in this publication conceive the relationship between living and aging as a productive antagonism which focuses on the interplay between continuity and change as a marker of life course identity: aging and growing older are processes which cannot be reduced to the chronology of years but which are shaped by the individual's interaction with the changing circumstances of life.
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Alternde Gesellschaft - eine Bedrohung?
Die Prognosen über die Bevölkerungsentwicklung mit einem zunehmenden Anteil alter Menschen werden oft als Bedrohung dargestellt. Andreas Kruse stellt diesem "Belastungsszenario" die These entgegen, dass die Potenziale des Alters unterschätzt und vernachlässigt werden - insbesondere im Hinblick auf Arbeitswelt und Zivilgesellschaft. Basierend auf aktuellen Forschungsergebnissen entwickelt der Autor Kriterien einer alters- und pflegefreundlichen Kultur, die diese Potenziale fördert und die gesellschaftliche Teilhabe selbst in Grenzsituationen wie Demenzerkrankungen sichert.
Leben in wachsenden Ringen
Dieses Buch bildet das "Gegenstück" zu dem im April 2021 erschienenen Buch "Vom Leben und Sterben im Alter. Wie wir das Lebensende gestalten können". Während jenes die enger werdenden Lebenskreise und den allmählichen Rückzug von der Welt thematisiert, betont dieses die Möglichkeiten seelisch-geistigen Wachstums und des gesellschaftlichen Engagements. Dabei wird Wachstum nicht allein im Sinne einer Vertiefung des Erlebens, sondern auch als Fähigkeit gedeutet, neue Lebensbereiche zu erschließen sowie vertraute Lebensbereiche noch einmal aus einer umfassenderen Perspektive zu betrachten, in die das Lebenswissen der Person eingeht. Zum "Leben in wachsenden Ringen" gehören gewandelte od...
