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Social relations among older gay men and trans women in Chile: Diverse, intimate, functional and reciprocal networks Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Lorena P. Gallardo-Peralta, Emilie Raymond, Herminia Gonzálvez Torralbo, Victoria Carrasco-Pavez
Although groups have experienced social transformations towards greater levels of respect and public presence in Chile in recent decades, the life trajectories of older people remain marginal in studies and surveys regarding sexual and gender diversity. In a society where homophobia is a current and oppressive attitude despite important advances, it is essential to examine the experiences of older
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Aging enacted in practice: How unloved objects thrive in the shadows of care Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Björn Fischer, Britt Östlund, Alexander Peine
In this paper, we explore the seeming stability of aging. More precisely, we offer an empirical account of how aging – images of aging, embodiments of aging, feelings about aging – is enacted in company practice, both in place and across time. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted at SMCare, a small-to-medium sized company active in the care technology sector, we show how aging achieves its stability
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The life course effects of socioeconomic status on later life loneliness: The role of gender and ethnicity Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Ágnes Szabó, Christine Stephens, Mary Breheny
Precursors of loneliness include individual risk factors and experiences of social exclusion. Using the New Zealand Health Work and Retirement Life Course History Study, we investigated the impact of unequal access to material resources across the life course (from age 10 to present) on late life emotional and social loneliness and the moderating effects of gender and Māori ethnicity (indigenous population
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To begin the world anew: Epistolary lessons on aging into old age by 4th earl of Chesterfield Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon
Philip Dormer Stanhope (1694–1773), 4th Earl of Chesterfield, is both a witness of and an agent in the most important transformations in eighteenth-century England. While his and have been examined in the context of his advice on polite behavior, ‘the art of pleasing’ and masculinity, Chesterfield's correspondence has not been fully explored in terms of its conceptualization of late life. Since the
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The crone and the hydra: Figuring temporal relations to aging code Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Marisa Leavitt Cohn
Managing older software code, often referred to as , entails a great deal of complexity, as the longer a software system has been around, the more likely it has been subjected to revisions and has grown in its interdependencies to other components written at different times by different people. This can lead to software being seen as aging and in decline as it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain
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Negotiating care and control: Pet euthanasia as phronetic action Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Nora Schuurman
The lives and deaths of animals living with humans have become increasingly medicalised, and the life of a pet usually ends with euthanasia conducted by a veterinarian. In this paper, I explore how pet euthanasia is understood as a good death in interactions between vets and pet guardians in veterinary practice, provided as an act of care for old and seriously ill or injured animals. Drawing from interviews
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On the limits of communication: The liminal positioning of older adults and processes of self-ageism and ageism. Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 B. Schuurman, W.P. Achterberg, T.A. Abma, J. Lindenberg
Our qualitative study, consisting of in-depth semi-structured interviews with recent retirees in the Dutch city of Leiden, set out to investigate how communication, through processes of self-identification and the negotiation of social identities, relates to (self-)ageism. A letter from the city administration was used to make age identification salient in our research and prompted stories of various
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A qualitative exploration of the lives lived by Irish centenarians Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Alison Fagan, Lorraine Gaffney, Patricia Heavey, Mary McDonnell Naughton
Centenarians are of particular importance to aging research as they represent the living architype of exceptional longevity and as such studying their attributes is expected to contribute to one's understanding of survivorship. While much centenarian research to date recognizes the biological and genetic determinants in achieving advanced age, there is a lack of understanding regarding the influence
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Towards care-full co-design with older adults: A feminist posthuman praxis Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Helen Manchester, Alice Willatt
Gerontechnology design is often rooted in deficit imaginaries of frail ageing bodies, with little consideration given to the sociomateriality of older adults' everyday lives, as shaped by complex social, political, historical and cultural forces. While co-design approaches have gone some way in supporting the participation of older adults, little attention has been given to how design processes can
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Advice for dementia carers: A critique of the literature Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Emily K. Abel
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The eight-legged confidant: Narrativizing octopuses and non-human aging Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Ruth Gehrmann
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Animal companionship and psycho-social well-being: Findings from a national study of community-dwelling aging Canadians Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Betty Jo Barrett, Amy Fitzgerald, Huda Al-Wahsh, Mohamad Musa
A growing body of evidence has provided support for the beneficial impact of human-animal interactions on a range of biological, social, and psychological outcomes for humans; however, less is conclusively known about the association between animal companionship and psycho-social health specifically among aging populations. In this study, we assessed the association between animal companionship and
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Industry visions of technology for older adults: A futures anthropology perspective Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Miguel Gomez-Hernandez
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Outdated and re-configured: Challenging linear conceptualizations of ageing through the case of revived obsolete technologies Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Cristina Ghita
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Visual and material representations of ageing, space and rhythms in everyday life Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Wendy Martin, Katy Pilcher
A focus on the materiality within ageing studies brings into focus the material dimensions of space, rhythms and material objects in everyday life. The aim of this paper is to explore meanings around space in the context of the daily lives of people growing older and how materiality is embodied, embedded and performed in the material and social context of our everyday lives. The paper draws on data
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Dwellings occupied by mobility-limited older people emerge as strong control centers and more age-friendly places Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Stephen M. Golant
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Othering and agency erosion of older adults living in extreme poverty in Bangladesh Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Owasim Akram
Offering fresh perspectives on the lived experience of ageing in extreme poverty, this article delves into unpacking the relationally driven processes of social, institutional, and self-othering that contribute to agency erosion in older adults. Positing that the context of extreme poverty in which a person ages is micropolitically shaped, where society, institutions, and ageing self interact in a
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Aging with her garden: Mutual care across species and generations Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Constance Dupuis
What can caring for, and being cared for by, a garden teach us about aging well? This article is a narrative exploration of care, aging, and wellbeing in later life through conversations with an older woman and her garden in Toronto, Canada during the months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The focus is on the interconnectedness of care across generations and species. Moving away from conventional generational
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Dementia Friendly Communities: Micro-processes and practices observed locally in Queensland Australia Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Caroline Grogan, Lisa Stafford, Evonne Miller, Judith Burton
Having the choice to stay living in one's home and community for as long as possible is a desire of people living with dementia. Yet, for many, this is not a reality due to a lack of appropriate support, unsuitable housing and built environments, social exclusion, and stigma. The global movement called Dementia Friendly Communities aims to address such barriers and bring about positive change. At the
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Meaning of working for older nurses and nursing assistants in Sweden: A qualitative study Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Marta Sousa-Ribeiro, Katinka Knudsen, Linda Persson, Petra Lindfors, Magnus Sverke
Meaningful work is related to the motivation to continue to work in older ages and later retirement. This qualitative study addresses calls for further research on the meaning of working for older workers using the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis approach to explore in-depth the dimensions underlying the subjective experience of meaningful work among 27 nurses and nursing assistants aged 55–75 years
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Age-appropriate elder care recipients? Care manager's categorisation practices in intraprofessional case conferences Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Johannes Österholm, Anna Olaison, Annika Taghizadeh Larsson
Age categories are related to perceptions and norms concerning appropriate behaviour, appearances, expectations, and so forth. In Sweden, municipal home care and residential care are commonly referred to as “elder care”, primarily catering to individuals in their 80s or 90s. However, there is no set age limit reserving these services for an older age group.
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Moral aspects of filial concern for a parent living with dementia: Social imaginaries in contemporary narratives Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Ina Luichies, Hanneke van der Meide, Anne Goossensen
Many adults face the difficulties of a parent living with dementia. Although not always caregiving for a parent living with dementia, they care about and are concerned for the vulnerability of their parent. This concern is invaluable but often an experience with a far-reaching impact. Qualitative research on filial concerns and experiences of caregiving has resulted in a vast body of knowledge about
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Representation of older adults in Turkish newspaper reports during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Simla Course, Fatma Şeyma Koç, Fatma Özlem Saka
This research investigates the representation of older adults in Turkish newspaper reports during the first national lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey in order to understand the representation and reinforcement of ageism in this context. To this end, fifty newspaper reports from five top-selling Turkish newspapers at the time were selected randomly and analysed using critical discourse
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‘Possibilities and challenges for older couples to continue ageing in place’ Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Jenni Riekkola, Gunilla Isaksson, Margareta Lilja, Stina Rutberg
Ageing in place is an imminent concern for both older couples and communities. Identifying ways to support ageing in place is required to meet the needs and challenges of older couples and social services systems. Through focus groups with a total of 46 participants and a constant comparative methodology, this study aimed to explore and describe the experiences and reasoning of spousal carers, healthcare
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Exploring experiential differences in everyday activities – A focused ethnographic study in the homes of people living with memory-led Alzheimer's disease and posterior cortical atrophy Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Emma Harding, Mary Pat Sullivan, Paul M. Camic, Keir X.X. Yong, Joshua Stott, Sebastian J. Crutch
Supporting ageing in place, quality of life and activity engagement are public health priorities for people living with dementia, but little is known about the needs and experiences of community-dwelling people with rarer forms of dementia with lesser known symptoms. Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) is a rare form of dementia usually caused by Alzheimer's disease but which is characterised by diminished
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Carving and making space through dance – Older people using dance to experience their ageing body and challenge ageist discourse Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Anna Goulding
Drawing on qualitative data from a study of older adults' participation in a contemporary dance group, this paper asks what can be gained from new materialist concepts of the older body, and how they can expand cultural gerontological thinking about embodiment. This paper examines the connections between the older body, movement, thoughts, words and spaces, arguing that dance demonstrates that there
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Ageism and the digital divide in Switzerland during COVID-19: Lessons for the post-pandemic world Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Marion Repetti, Elisa Fellay-Favre
The COVID-19 pandemic erupted in early 2020. The Swiss Federal Council implemented a semi-lockdown in March 2020, asking people, particularly older adults, to stay at home to limit the transmission of the disease and to use digital tools to maintain their social relations and activities. This study inquired how older adults confronting precarity experienced these restrictions, how digital tools functioned
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Dilemmas of intervention: From person-centred to alienation-centred dementia care Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Annette Leibing, Stephen Katz
Discussions regarding personhood and dementia care are often based on practices of recognition; on notions of being—or not being— ‘one of us’. This article provides a short overview of personhood as articulated in dementia care, especially in the assemblage of practices known as ‘person-centred care’ (PCC), and in post-human approaches that developed following the critique of PCC. This article posits
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Hattie and Sammler: Saul Bellow's older woman and older man Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Xiaoming Cong
Hattie in Saul Bellow's “Leaving the Yellow House” and Sammler in Bellow's are both elderly characters. This article intends to compare the two characters from a gender perspective, to illustrate how these characters appear to experience and respond to old age and how other characters in these two fictions respond to the old age of their respective elderly characters. The comparison of these two characters
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“They didn't think we'd do it!”: Community gardening as an act of resistance for people with dementia Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Sarah Swift, Nicholas Jenkins, Margaret Brown, Marjorie McCrory
People living with dementia commonly report negative experiences such as disempowerment, stigma, and oppression. Community gardening has demonstrated its potential as a forum for the practice of resistance against the oppressions experienced by other marginalised groups; however, this element of the experience of community gardening has yet to be explored in the context of dementia. A collaboratively-designed
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Adapting to home care in Norway: A longitudinal case study of older Adults' experiences Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Ove Hellzén, Tove Mentsen Ness, Kari Ingstad, Mette Spliid Ludvigsen, Ann Marie Nissen, Siri Andreassen Devik
This study aimed to describe how older adults with complex health problems manage their everyday lives in their own homes and how they interact with given home care. In this multiple-case study, a total of 14 individual interviews were conducted with five older adults over the course of one year. Deductive and inductive content analyses were performed. Three descriptive categories were each identified
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Ambiguous personhood: Paradoxes of social belonging in Danish nursing home care Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Emma Jelstrup Balkin, Ingjerd Gåre Kymre, Mette Geil Kollerup, Bente Martinsen, Mette Grønkjær
In oldest old age (generally considered to be from 85 years onwards), personhood is often called into question, impacting well-being as a result. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article examines the well-being of oldest old nursing home residents at the intersections of ageism, fraying personhood and fragile social belonging in Danish nursing home care. In Denmark personhood hinges on both independence
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Images of care: A pedagogy of rosiness about aging transitions Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Cati Coe, Sheridan Conty
How do people learn about what it is like to become frail and require assistance with activities of daily living? This significant transition in the life course is often avoided and denied by those in North America. This paper examines images from the websites of agencies providing care to older adults in their homes as one aspect of a wider social pedagogy about aging. In particular, we find that
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Care-ethical considerations of technology-care-assemblages Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Cordula Endter, Silke Migala, Anne Münch, Anna Richter
Technology plays a major role in care. Against the background of demographic ageing, the use of assistive technologies to support and relieve carers in their work is becoming more and more important. One sector that is increasingly coming into focus is home care by family caregivers. Here, the use of assistive technologies takes place under specific conditions. The article proposes a care-ethical perspective
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The timescapes of older adults living alone and receiving home care: An interview study Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Kristin S. Voie, Janine Wiles, Kjersti Sunde Mæhre, Margrethe Kristiansen, Ann Karin Helgesen, Bodil H. Blix
In this study, we drew on Barbara Adam's (1998) perspective and applied a timescape lens to our analysis of how nine older adults who live alone, receive home care and are considered by home care professionals to be frail, experience living (in) time. Over a period of eight months, we conducted three interviews with each of the nine participants. We analysed the data using reflexive thematic analysis
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Influence of materiality in professional geriatric care: Conceptual, methodological and empirical insights Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Hanna Wüller, Rosa Mazzola
Most people become more reliant on care and support as they age. The constitution of ageing people in the context of nursing support thus represents a material aspect in the daily life of these people and must be taken into account in the science of gerontology. However, theories of (geriatric) care have previously been predominantly human-centric. In light of the material turn, the goal of this paper
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‘Robbed out of mind’: Reflections on Alzheimer's and gendered subjectivity in select Indian literary narratives Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Debashrita Dey, Priyanka Tripathi
Neurological degeneration is a potent signifier molding older lives, divesting them of ‘personhood’ and making them a ‘target of care’. This article delineates the depictions of Alzheimer's and its associated losses in select Indian literary narratives- (2018) and (2019) and seeks to understand how ‘ageing into disability’ for older women has severe implications that marginalize their embodied existence
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“We're still alive, much to everyone's surprise”: The experience of trans older adults living with dementia in an ageist, cisgenderist, and cogniticist society Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Alexandre Baril, Marjorie Silverman
Trans and non-binary older adults living with dementia experience forms of marginalization, pathologization, and discrimination embedded in epistemic violence that leads them to be mistreated and dismissed as knowledgeable subjects. Based on empirical findings from a Canadian study examining the experiences of trans and non-binary people living with dementia and their carers, we combat this epistemic
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More than words: Doing the work of being open and inclusive Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-13
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Cared for masculinities in nursing homes - A material perspective on the intersectionality of institutional, spacial, gendered and corporal materiality Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Rafaela Werny
This paper takes the co-construction of age and gender over the course of a life as a starting point and expands this perspective by looking at the intersectional interplay of institutional, spatial, and bodily materiality in the setting of a nursing home. Nursing homes are often perceived as a female space, both socially and physically. Moreover, they are institutional spaces that are primarily oriented
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Age differences in emotional reactions to ageist memes and changes in age of one's Best Self Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Patricia Kahlbaugh, Jacklyn Ramos-Arvelo, Madison Brenning, Loreen Huffman
Memes on social media can carry ageist messages and can elicit reactions that are both emotional and self-evaluative. The present study investigates age-related differences in nine discrete emotions and in the evaluation of when individuals have been or will be their best selves. Participants ( = 360) representing young ( = 26 years), middle-aged ( = 39 years) and older adults ( = 63 years) were randomly
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Counter-narratives of active aging: Disability, trauma, and joy in the age-friendly city Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-06 Karine Côté-Boucher, Tamara Daly, Sally Chivers, Susan Braedley, Sean Hillier
Dominant narratives about late life promote active aging, while anti-aging ones mobilize tropes of decline and irrelevance. In contrast, counter-narratives raise questions that spark new conversations about the promising practices that could foster more age-friendly cities. In this article, we describe our feminist and ethnographic approach to interviews and digital storytelling that aim to amplify
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Material gerontology – Central thematic intersections and blurring boundaries Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Vera Gallistl, Julia Hahmann, Grit Höppner, Anna Wanka
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Healthy aging, self-care, and choice in India: Class-based engagements with globally circulating ideologies Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-25 Sarah Lamb, Nilanjana Goswami
Euro-American notions of successful and healthy aging are taking root globally, shaped and inflected by local cultural and political contexts. India is one place where globally inflected discourses of healthy, active, and successful aging are on the rise. However, notions about just what constitutes healthy aging and how to achieve such a goal do not play out the same way across the globe. This article
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Moving in together in later life: Making spaces into places as a joint endeavor Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Anna Wanka, Steven M. Schmidt, Susanne Iwarsson, Frank Oswald, Karla Wazinski, Björn Slaug, Maya Kylén
We focus on the linkages between relocation, new forms of partner cohabitation, and retirement. What are the patterns and trajectories of moving in with a partner in retirement? How do older adults experience different transitions, place attachment, and placemaking when they move in with a partner? In this qualitative study, 50 persons between 60 and 75 years old were interviewed in Sweden and Germany
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“Sexual activity for me is something else. It's the same as always: Sex aside and our love for each other.” Changes in sexual activity in dementia from the view of spouse-carers' Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Marcela Moreira Lima Nogueira, Jose Pedro Simões Neto, Aud Johannessen, Marcia Cristina Nascimento Dourado
The study aimed to explore the impact of Alzheimer's disease (AD) on spouse-carer's lives and the ways it affects their marital relationship and sexual activity. Data were obtained from qualitative interviews conducted with 11 spouse-carers of people with AD. Using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), three themes emerged: psychological and emotional impact, social impact, and sexual impact
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“We never lived together either”: Couples' housing (re-) arrangements in later life Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-04 Julia Piel, Bernt-Peter Robra
Social gerontology mainly addresses couples' housing arrangements in later life by focusing on partner's care, related adaptations in place, and changing role expectations within the couple relationship. Thereby, the resulting image does not fully represent today's diversity of couples' housing arrangements. This article considers housing arrangement and relationship orientation of older couples as
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Personal benefits of older adults engaging in a participatory action research (PAR) project Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Shkumbin Gashi, Heidi Kaspar, Martin Grosse Holtforth
Participatory action research (PAR) is the process of conducting research with people rather than for them and is perceived as an empowering activity for older adults who participate in it. However, there is little evidence that outlines and explains the reasons why older adults engage in PAR. Thus, the aim of this study was to better understand the personal benefits for older adults participating
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“What's your accent, where are you from?”: Language and belonging among older immigrants Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Stephanie Zemba, Meeta Mehrotra
Researchers have identified immigration and marginalization as two processes that impact older immigrants' experience of aging in the U.S. Our paper draws on 42 interviews with a diverse group of older American immigrants to center issues of language, accent, and Othering. We argue that the importance of language extends beyond communication for older immigrants, as English proficiency and accent are
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Life-course transitions and exclusion from social relations in the lives of older men and women Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Anna Urbaniak, Kieran Walsh, Lucie Galčanová Batista, Marcela Petrová Kafková, Celia Sheridan, Rodrigo Serrat, Franziska Rothe
There is increasing interest across European contexts in promoting active social lives in older age, and counteracting pathways and outcomes related to social isolation and loneliness for men and women in later life. This is evidenced within national and European level policy, including the 2021 Green Paper on Ageing and its concern with understanding how risks can accrue for European ageing populations
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Inessential objects: Cherished possessions in late life in Indian fiction Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Ira Raja
Through close readings of three Indian short stories, this essay seeks to show how cherished possessions, such as a bed, a blanket and books, are not stable repositories of past memories but a means of materializing intergenerational relations within the family in the lived present and, perhaps even more interestingly, catalysts for new and hitherto unforeseen possibilities of self-discovery and connections
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A phenomenological, intersectional understanding of coping with ageism and racism among older adults Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Andrew T. Steward, Yating Zhu, Carson M. De Fries, Annie Zean Dunbar, Miguel Trujillo, Leslie Hasche
The aim of this qualitative, phenomenological study was to understand how older adults cope with experiences of ageism and racism through an intersectional lens. Twenty adults 60+ residing in the U.S. Mountain West who identified as Black, Hispanic/Latino(a), Asian-American/Pacific Islander, Indigenous, or White participated individually in a one-hour, semi-structured interview. A team of five coders
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“Stop acting like a child – you're immature”: The reversed ageism of practicing self-injury as adult women and the reclaiming of our bodies Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Nina Veetnisha Gunnarsson
The practice of self-injury is considered deviant and pathological, and the stereotype of a self-injuring individual is a young, white, middle-class woman. By using an autoethnographic approach, I elucidate how four women and I, aged 35–51, with experiences of self-injury in adulthood, use, internalize, and speak through dominant discourses of self-injury. The practice of self-injury is an embodied
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Distributed age(ing): Features of a material gerontology Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Grit Höppner
In this paper, I develop features of a material gerontology which are summarised in the concept of “distributed age(ing);” that is, age(ing) that is distributed across and co-constituted through meanings, roles, and identities, as well as human and non-human forms of materiality, their productive dimensions and their relations to each other. The starting point is the critique of the human-centredness
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Dementia as a material for co-creative art making: Towards feminist posthumanist caring Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Dragana Lukić
This article generates new understandings of dementia through feminist posthumanist and performative engagements with co-creative artmaking practices during a six-month study in a residential care home in Norway. Dementia emerges within multisensorial entanglements of more-than-human materials in three different artmaking sessions, which first materialized in the form of collective photographs and
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Social egg freezing as ambivalent materialities of aging Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Tannistha Samanta
This commentary explores how the material-nonmaterial transactions around reproduction among women raise paradoxical questions of reproductive autonomy and commercialization of reproduction. Drawing from medical anthropological studies on human reproduction, the technology around social egg freezing has been conceived to proffer ambivalent possibilities of hope, despair, and repair as mature women
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Spacetimematter of aging – The material temporalities of later life Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Vera Gallistl, Anna Wanka
Material gerontology poses the question of how aging processes are co-constituted in relation to different forms of (human and non-human) materiality. This paper makes a novel contribution by asking when aging processes are co-constituted and how these temporalities of aging are entangled with different forms of materiality. In this paper, we explore the entanglements of temporality and materiality
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The domestication of remote monitoring: The materialisation of care? Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Kate Gibson, Katie Brittain
Recent years have seen an influx of technologies aimed at enabling older people to remain at home. Remote monitoring is one such technology. By tracking the body as it moves through time and space, remote monitoring enables a care connection which transcends the physical boundaries of the home. Based on 43 interviews conducted with 21 older people trialling remote monitoring, this study critically
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“Keeping our distance”: Older adults' experiences during year one of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown in Australia Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Andrew S. Gilbert, Stephanie M. Garratt, Bianca Brijnath, Joan Ostaszkiewicz, Frances Batchelor, Christa Dang, Briony Dow, Anita M.Y. Goh
The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic had a profound impact on everyday life in Australia despite relatively low infection rates. Lockdown restrictions were among the harshest in the world, while older adults were portrayed as especially vulnerable by politicians and the media. This study examines the perceptions and experiences of the pandemic and lockdowns among 31 older Australians. We investigated
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No place to go? Older people reconsidering the meaning of social spaces in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Aging Studies (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Katariina Tuominen, Jari Pirhonen, Kirsi Lumme-Sandt, Päivi Ahosola, Ilkka Pietilä
Under COVID-19 restrictions, older people were advised to avoid social contact and to self-isolate at home. The situation forced them to reconsider their everyday social spaces such as home and leisure time places. This study approached the meaning of social spaces for older people by examining how older people positioned themselves in relation to social spaces during the pandemic. The data were drawn