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Disability and ageing : towards a critical perspective /
Establishing a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue, this text engages with the typically disparate fields of social gerontology and disability studies. It investigates the experiences of two groups rarely considered together in research - people ageing with long-term disability and people first...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK :
Policy Press,
2021.
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| Colección: | Ageing in a global context.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Disability abd Ageing: Towards a Critical Perspective
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- Key terms
- Acknowledgments
- Series editors' preface
- 1 Introduction
- Paradox
- Policy frameworks
- Political movements
- Conceptualisations (or models) of disability
- Theoretical approaches
- The empirical study: rationale, key features and findings
- Terminology and abbreviations
- Chapter by chapter outline
- Part I The context for disablement in older age
- 2 Defining disability
- Introduction
- General approaches to defining disability
- The UK social model and beyond
- Biopsychosocial models
- Approaches to defining disability in older age
- Biomedical definitions
- Dominant understanding in sociology: the fourth age
- Definition from environmental gerontology
- Discussion and conclusions
- 3 Literature: ageing, disability and lifecourse
- Introduction
- Scholarship on ageing: social theories
- Ageing in early theorising: disengagement theory, activity theory and beyond
- Ageing as a social construction: introducing critical gerontology
- Critical gerontology: cultural representations
- Critical gerontology: the body, identity and intersectionality
- Critical gerontology: meaning in life
- Disability as social construction: introducing disability studies
- Critical or cultural disability studies
- Critical disability studies: cultural representations and relational issues
- Critical disability studies: bodies
- Critical disability studies: identity, multidimensionality and intersectionality
- Aspects of medical sociology
- Scholarship on the lifecourse
- Discussion and conclusions
- 4 Public policies on ageing and disability
- Introduction
- Background: disability prevalence
- Introducing international policy approaches to ageing and to disability
- Policies on ageing
- Policies on disability
- Issues arising from the separation of policy frameworks
- Separate policies: consequences for people experiencing disability with ageing
- Separate policies: consequences for people ageing with disability
- Bridging between policies on ageing and disability
- Discussion and conclusions
- Part II Empirical findings
- 5 Disabling bodies
- Introduction
- Introducing the study: research questions and methods
- Theoretical background
- Changes in self-identity and biographical disruption
- Findings: disabling bodies
- Perceiving 'decline' or 'catastrophe'
- Having a heightened sense of uncertainty and finitude
- Losing activities and participation opportunities
- Negotiating social identities in light of dominant discourses
- Heterogeneity in the experience of ageing with disability
- Discussion and conclusions
- 6 Disabling or enabling contexts
- Introduction
- Theoretical background: disability identity
- Experiences of disability in interaction with contexts