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Valuing Older People
Ricca Edmondson
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Description for Valuing Older People
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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
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847422927
SKU
V9781847422927
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Ref
99-50
About Ricca 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
"Provides a historical typology of old age attitudes from the eighteenth century to the present." American Studies Quarterly "An eagerly awaited volume that directs attention to norms and values as essential for capacities to age creatively and give meaning to the process of ageing." Lars Andersson, National Institute for the Study of Ageing and Later Life (NISAL), Linköping University, Sweden ... Read more