From Legacies to Futures - Seidel, Katja; Prendergast, David; Saris, A Jamie
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Older adults want to exercise a sense of control over their relationships, structures and surroundings as they navigate the later life course. Through detailed ethnographic case studies, this book examines the dynamic lifeworlds of a hundred and seven community-dwelling older adults in Europe before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the importance of agency, the frictions between self-perceptions of age and outside impositions and the need to deconstruct old age as a homogenising category. These insights challenge simple narratives of older persons as social burdens by highlighting…mehr

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Older adults want to exercise a sense of control over their relationships, structures and surroundings as they navigate the later life course. Through detailed ethnographic case studies, this book examines the dynamic lifeworlds of a hundred and seven community-dwelling older adults in Europe before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the importance of agency, the frictions between self-perceptions of age and outside impositions and the need to deconstruct old age as a homogenising category. These insights challenge simple narratives of older persons as social burdens by highlighting the complex roles they fill in family, neighbourhood and communities.
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Autorenporträt
A. Jamie Saris is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Maynooth University. He has been working for more than twenty-five years in medical and psychological anthropology in field sites in Ireland, North America, Continental Europe and parts of Africa. He is a founding member and part of the Executive Committee of the Assisting Living and Learning (ALL) Institute at Maynooth University.