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Getting Wise about Getting Old
A grey tsunami is sweeping the land, wreaking social and financial havoc in its wake. Sound familiar? This myth about aging, along with twenty-eight others, is the focus of Getting Wise about Getting Old, which paints a far more accurate and nuanced portrait of old age. In it, experts debunk myths and persistent stereotypes about aging on a broad array of social issues – from retirement (seniors are low-performance workers) to housing (most older adults live in long-term care accommodation), and violence (senior women are not victims of sexual assault) to political participation (seniors are conservative and resistant to change) – deconstructing and countering them with the latest findings. The work of two leading research groups in Quebec, the short and accessible chapters of this vitally important book contribute to a better understanding of the social challenges, as well as the advantages, of an aging society.
The New Neighborhood Senior Center
In 2011, seven thousand American “baby boomers” (those born between 1946 and 1964) turned sixty-five daily. As this largest U.S. generation ages, cities, municipalities, and governments at every level must grapple with the allocation of resources and funding for maintaining the quality of life, health, and standard of living for an aging population. In The New Neighborhood Senior Center, Joyce Weil uses in-depth ethnographic methods to examine a working-class senior center in Queens, New York. She explores the ways in which social structure directly affects the lives of older Americans and traces the role of political, social, and economic institutions and neighborhood processes in the d...
Four Lenses of Population Aging
This book analyses the actions and plans enacted by the ten Canadian provinces to prepare for the new reality of an aging society.
Les vieillissements sous la loupe : Entre mythes et réalités
Le vieillissement de la population est souvent traité, dans les discours politiques et médiatiques, comme une catastrophe démographique, un lourd fardeau social ou financier pour la société. La vieillesse dérange, étant perçue la plupart du temps comme l'opposé de la jeunesse, de la modernité, de la beauté, de l'efficacité, de la productivité, de la rapidité, de l'utilité sociale, de l'autonomie, entre autres. Les représentations négatives et les mythes sur le vieillissement influencent les rapports intergénérationnels et les perceptions sociétales des enjeux politiques. Les mythes et représentations négatives ont aussi des impacts directs sur les orientations et politi...
Vieillir au pluriel
Il n’y a pas « un » vieillissement, mais bien « des » vieillissements. Les parcours de vie et les expériences reliées à l’avancement en âge se déclinent différemment selon de multiples facteurs personnels et sociaux : le genre, l’origine ethnique, l’orientation sexuelle, le statut socioéconomique, les compétences citoyennes, les capacités et incapacités... Reflet de cette pluralité, l’ouvrage réunit les savoirs scientifiques et cliniques de 45 auteurs aux trajectoires professionnelles et aux expériences variées. Ensemble, ils ont construit une expertise unique à propos des personnes aînées et de la société, regroupée en quatre grandes sections : les multiples vieillissements et leurs représentations, les inégalités des défis rencontrés, les environnements des aînés et, enfin, les politiques et les actions sociales entreprises. Véritable traité de gérontologie sociale, il s’agit du premier manuel francophone traitant des différents aspects sociaux des vieillissements. Il porte le projet d’une société plurielle et inclusive, d’une société pour tous les âges où il fait bon vieillir.
Universality and Social Policy in Canada
Bringing together top scholars in the field, Universality and Social Policy in Canada provides an overview of the universality principle in social welfare. The contributors survey the many contested meanings of universality in relation to specific social programs, the field of social policy, and the modern welfare state. The book argues that while universality is a core value undergirding certain areas of state intervention--most notably health care and education--the contributory principle of social insurance and the selectivity principle of income assistance are also highly significant precepts in practice.
Age Friendly
Age Friendly: Ending Ageism in America is a rallying call to make the United States a more equitable and just nation in terms of age. "Age friendliness" means being inclusive towards older people as workers, consumers, and citizens, something that can’t be said to exist today. The United States and, especially, Big Business, are notoriously age-unfriendly places, a result of our obsession with youth. Virtually all aspects of everyday life in America will be impacted by the doubling or tripling of the number of older people over the next two decades, more reason to adopt age friendliness as a cause. Age Friendly shows how large companies are in an ideal position to address the aging of Amer...
Front-Wave Boomers
Boomers are heading into (very) old age following a pandemic, a time of overt ageism and deficient eldercare. The front wave, now in their seventies, are on the brink of life changes that will challenge everyone – family, friends, and the health care system too. Recognizing the dire need to meet these challenges, Gillian Ranson investigates what they are doing to prepare for old age. Regardless of their situation – well off or struggling, partnered or on their own – front-wave boomers share one thing: the need for intimate, caring social ties. Many of them are making these connections with creativity and resilience. Their stories hold lessons for us all.
La réponse de la science médicale au «devenir vieux»
Depuis l’aube des temps, la vieillesse a toujours fait l’objet d’une formidable ambivalence existentielle. Tantôt vénérée et considérée comme symbole de sagesse, mais souvent dévalorisée et synonyme du déclin de l’être, elle interpelle tout être humain, quel que soit son âge, son statut et sa condition. Les progrès médicaux et les nouvelles technologies qui, au cours des dernières décennies, ont ouvert d’incroyables perspectives, ont contribué à faire émerger une certaine idée de la vieillesse qui, du point de vue de la modernité, serait un naufrage, une triste aventure de vie. Pour la première fois dans l’histoire de l’humanité, la majorité des humains,...
