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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Isabella PaolettiPublisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 2024 ed. ISBN: 9789819750405ISBN 10: 9819750407 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 13 August 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPart I Some Key Issues on the Fourth Age.- 1. Introduction. Sense of Purpose, Active Ageing and Age Discrimination.- 2. Ageism. The Need for New Imagery for Growing Old.- 3. Very Old Age in a Rural Context. Findings from the Faroe Islands.- 4. Oldest Old Adults and Mobility: Accessible, Safe and Affordable Transportation.-5. Diana Athill: Unapologetic Sgeing and Daring Love for Life.- Part II Being Involved and Active at a Very Old Age.- 6. “To be Productive for as Long as I Live.” Art and Cultural Activities After Eighty.- 7. Dancing Until the End of Time: Emotions and Interactions Among Swedish Social Dancers Aged 80 and Above.- 8. Active Ageing and Older Persons Living with Dementia: A Shared Reading Intervention.- 9. Firms’ Owners, Aged 80-Plus, in Sweden in the Early 2000s.- 10. The Oldest Old as Voluntary Workers.- 11. Conclusion. Proud to Be An Oldest Old Adult.ReviewsAuthor InformationIsabella Paoletti is a researcher at CRIS (Social Research and Intervention Center), Perugia, Italy. Her research interests are informed by discourse and narrative analysis, ethnomethodology and ethnography. She has published extensively on gender and ageing and is the editor of Older women in Europe: A human rights-based approach (2022). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |