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Valuing older people: A humanist approach to ageing (Ageing and the Lifecourse)
Ricca(Ed) Edmondson
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Description for Valuing older people: A humanist approach to ageing (Ageing and the Lifecourse)
Paperback. How can we understand older people as real human beings, value their wisdom, and appreciate that their norms and principles both matter in themselves and are affected by those of others? Using a life-course approach, this book claims that the complexity and potential creativity of later life demands a humanistic vision of older people and ageing. Editor(s): Edmondson, Ricca; Kondratowitz, Hans-Joachim von. Series: Ageing and the Lifecourse Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP31. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 173 x 20. Weight in Grams: 552.
How can we understand older people as real human beings, value their wisdom, and appreciate that their norms and purposes both matter in themselves and are affected by those of others? Using a life-course approach, "Valuing older people" argues that the complexity and potential creativity of later life demand a humanistic vision of older people and ageing. It acknowledges the diversity of experiences of older age and presents a range of contexts and methodologies through which they can be understood. Ageing is a process of creating meaning carried out by older people, and is significant for those around them. ... Read more
How can we understand older people as real human beings, value their wisdom, and appreciate that their norms and purposes both matter in themselves and are affected by those of others? Using a life-course approach, "Valuing older people" argues that the complexity and potential creativity of later life demand a humanistic vision of older people and ageing. It acknowledges the diversity of experiences of older age and presents a range of contexts and methodologies through which they can be understood. Ageing is a process of creating meaning carried out by older people, and is significant for those around them. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Policy Press
Condition
New
Series
Ageing and the Lifecourse Series
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847422910
SKU
V9781847422910
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99-50
About Ricca(Ed) Edmondson
Ricca Edmondson (died June 2021) was educated in Lancaster and Oxford. After research at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, she is now senior lecturer in the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her teaching and research focus on the sociology of wisdom and the life course, ethnographic methods, intercultural understanding, rhetorical argument and the history of political ... Read more
Reviews for Valuing older people: A humanist approach to ageing (Ageing and the Lifecourse)
"Provides a historical typology of old age attitudes from the eighteenth century to the present." American Studies Quarterly "This book not only reflects the growing maturity of humanistic gerontology, but invites all of us to reflect more deeply on the very meaning of 'maturity' itself. It is a remarkable collection, drawn from all over the globe, of the best thinking ... Read more