Critical Gerontology Comes of Age

Advances in Research and Theory for a New Century
Herausgeber: Wellin, Chris

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Critical Gerontology Comes of Age reflects on how baby boomers, caretakers, and health professionals are perceiving and adapting to historical, social, political, and cultural changes that call into question prior assumptions about aging and life progression. Through an exploration of earlier and later-life stages and the dynamic changes in intergenerational relations, chapter authors reexamine the research, methods, and scope of critical gerontology, a multidisciplinary field that speaks to the experiences of life in the 21st century. Topics include Medicare, privatization of home care, incarceration, outreach to LGTBQ elders, migration, and chronic illness. Grounded in innovative research and case studies, this volume reflects multiple perspectives and is accessible to lay readers, advanced undergraduates and graduate students, and professionals in many fields.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9781138630284
• ISBN-10: 1138630284
• Artikelnr.: 52642486

Autorenporträt

Chris Wellin, PhD, is an associate professor of sociology and coordinator of gerontology programs at Illinois State University. In addition to publishing articles in numerous professional journals, Dr. Wellin was commissioned by a Committee of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2008 to review and assess ethnographic research on direct caregiving for older and/or disabled people. He served from 2009 to 2011 as chair of the Division on Youth, Aging, and the Life Course in the Society for the Study of Social Problems.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introductory Chapter: A Need for, and Fruits of, Current, Critical
Gerontology Wellin 2. A First-Generation Critic Comes of Age: Reflections
of a Critical Gerontologist Estes 3. Critical Questions for Critical
Gerontology (and Critical Gerontologists) Moody & Sasser 4. Qualifying the
Aging Enterprise: Micro and Meso-Level Studies in Human Service
Organizations Miller & Crampton 5. Who are You in Medicare and You?:
Examining This Second Person Diamond 6. Who Rules Home Care? The Impacts of
Privatization on Profitability, Cost, and Quality Cabin 7. Challenges and
Achievements Regarding Outreach to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
(LGBT) Elders: Perspectives from Nursing Gabrielson 8. Paid Care-Giving for
Older Adults with Serious or Chronic Illness: Ethnographic Perspectives,
Evidence, and Implications for Training Wellin 9. Silver Alert: Societal
Aging, Dementia, and Framing a Social Problem Petonito & Muschert 10. Aging
in Places Torres 11. Meanings of Age and Aging among Older, Incarcerated
Women: Implications for Adaptation and Policy Reform Janssen 12. How
Thinking about Children from a Global Perspective Can Fortify Social
Gerontology Schmeeckle 13. Lost in the "Big World": Korean College Students
Coming of Age in the U.S. Song 14. Migration and Gendered Webs of
Obligation: Caring for my Elderly Puerto Rican Mother in a Transnational
Context Toro-Morn