Women in Late Life explores thorny issues related to gender and aging, including ageism, cultural expectations, body image, caring at the end of life, chronic illness, Social Security, caregiving, and more. Blending personal narrative with current research, this interdisciplinary look at gender and aging is nuanced and beautifully written.
Women in Late Life explores thorny issues related to gender and aging, including ageism, cultural expectations, body image, caring at the end of life, chronic illness, Social Security, caregiving, and more. Blending personal narrative with current research, this interdisciplinary look at gender and aging is nuanced and beautifully written.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Martha Holstein has spent forty-one years working in the field of aging both in the community and in academia. At Loyola University, she has taught health care ethics while at the University of Chicago she teaches aging and health policy. She also works on long-term care policy at the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group in Chicago. For many years she was the associate director of the American Society on Aging and a Research Scholar at the Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith and Ethics. She has published widely in academic journals and books, is co-author of the recent work, Ethics, Aging, and Society: The Critical Turn, written with two Loyola colleagues and the co-editor of several books, including Ethics in Community-Based Elder Care.
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Introduction The Women of Mayslake Part I. The Body and Beyond Chapter 1. What Do You See When You Look At Me?: Women, Aging, and Our Bodies Chapter 2. Ageism: You're Only as Old as You Feel and Other Fictions Chapter 3. The "New Old Age": From Productive Aging to Anti-Aging and Everything in Between Chapter 4. Disruptions and Repair: Identity and Chronic Illness Part II. Aging Women in Contemporary Society Chapter 5: A Looming Dystopia: Feminism, Aging, and Community-Based Long-Term Care Chapter 6: Retirement: In Pursuit of Women's Economic Security Chapter 7. Beyond Rational Control: Reflections on End-of-Life Care Part III. I'm an Old Lady and Damn Proud of It (Maggie Kuhn) Chapter 8. Resistance and Change: Where to From Here?
Introduction The Women of Mayslake Part I. The Body and Beyond Chapter 1. What Do You See When You Look At Me?: Women, Aging, and Our Bodies Chapter 2. Ageism: You're Only as Old as You Feel and Other Fictions Chapter 3. The "New Old Age": From Productive Aging to Anti-Aging and Everything in Between Chapter 4. Disruptions and Repair: Identity and Chronic Illness Part II. Aging Women in Contemporary Society Chapter 5: A Looming Dystopia: Feminism, Aging, and Community-Based Long-Term Care Chapter 6: Retirement: In Pursuit of Women's Economic Security Chapter 7. Beyond Rational Control: Reflections on End-of-Life Care Part III. I'm an Old Lady and Damn Proud of It (Maggie Kuhn) Chapter 8. Resistance and Change: Where to From Here?
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