ISBN:
9783839445549
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (391 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Aging Studies v.19
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.26094699999999
Keywords:
Older people--Europe, Eastern
;
Older people--Balkan Peninsula
;
Old age--Europe, Eastern
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Historical Perspectives -- Old Age in the Balkans -- Co-Residence of Elderly Persons with Children and Grandchildren in Eastern and Southeast Europe -- "University Elders," "Young Professors" and Students -- Changes in Soviet Academia's Age-Related Personnel Policies during the Cold War -- Qualitative and Quantitative Inquiries -- No Country for Old People -- Meanings of Getting Old in Post-Transition Serbia -- On Nearness and Distance -- The Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Family Communication -- The Elderly in Russia -- Literary Representations -- Aging in Soviet Utopian and Dystopian Literature -- Ageless, Vital, Immortal -- Noticing Signs and Stereotypes of Aging -- Does Genre Matter? -- Traumatic Aging in Borisav Stanković and Miloš Crnjanski -- The Dark Past of Family -- The Hag and the Egg -- Commemorating Russia's Great Old Women -- Contributors.
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