ISBN:
9781447300434
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (495 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Adult Lives : A Life Course Perspective
DDC:
305.26
Keywords:
Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
""Adult lives""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Contextualising adulthood""; ""Part II: Transforming adulthood""; ""Part III: Understanding adulthood""; ""PART I: Contextualising adulthood""; ""Introduction""; ""Real voice I.1: The Turnip""; ""SECTION ONE: Quality of life and the life course""; ""1: The life course perspective on ageing: Linked lives, timing, and history""; ""The lifecourse perspective""; ""Principles of the lifecourse""; ""Generations, cohorts, and social change""; ""De-institutionalization of the lifecourse""; ""Conclusion""
Description / Table of Contents:
""2. Imagining old age""""Introduction""; ""Why might imagining old age be difficult?""; ""Why does it matter?""; ""What might help people to imagine their own old age?""; ""Conclusion""; ""3. Quality of life""; ""A first view of quality of life ""; ""From subjective well-being to quality of life ""; ""Conclusion""; ""4. Implications for ageing well in the twenty-first century""; ""Summary of main findings ""; ""5. Chronic illness as biographical disruption ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Chronic illness as a disruptive event ""; ""Onset and the problem of recognition ""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Emerging disability and the problem of uncertainty """"Chronic illness and the mobilisation of resources ""; ""Discussion and concluding remarks ""; ""6. Aging with a childhood onset disability""; ""Methodology ""; ""Results ""; ""Childhood ""; ""Adolescence ""; ""Young adulthood ""; ""Middle adulthood ""; ""Later adulthood or now ""; ""Discussion ""; ""7. Health and mortality""; ""Describing and analysing the health of older people: patterns of mortality""; ""8. Psychological ageing""; ""Main domains of research""; ""Conclusion""; ""9. Dementia reconsidered: the person comes first""
Description / Table of Contents:
""The psychodynamics of exclusion """"How personhood is undermined""; ""A story of our time ""; ""Evidence for a positive view: A case study ""; ""10. The �Senses Framework�: a relationship-centred approach to care""; ""Setting the scene""; ""Origins of the Senses Framework""; ""An enriched environment and relationship-centred care""; ""Implementing the Senses Framework: valuing relational practice""; ""Disability and adulthood""; ""Thinking about adulthood""; ""Adulthood, disability and the generational system""
Description / Table of Contents:
""A sense of belonging: informal support from family, friends and acquaintances""""The significance of informal support ""; ""Informal networks in later life ""; ""Summary ""; ""Environment and ageing""; ""Theoretical perspectives""; ""Ecological perspectives""; ""Final remarks""; ""Life course""; ""Introduction""; ""Housing and stages in the life course""; ""Early years""; ""Middle years""; ""Later years""; ""Housing histories and the life course""; ""Housing histories and relocation""; ""Glossary ""; ""The role of technologies in the everyday lives of older people""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Telehealth, telecare and assistive technologies""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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