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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...

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Autor principal: Leahy, Ann (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
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