Katja Seidel, David Prendergast, A. Jamie Saris

From Legacies to Futures (eBook, ePUB)

The Lifeworlds of Older Adults in Europe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805399506
• Artikelnr.: 72258471

Autorenporträt

David Prendergast is Head of the Department of Anthropology and Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Maynooth University in Ireland. Previously, David worked at Intel where he was a principal investigator at the 'Technology Research for Independent Living Centre' and co-founder of the 'Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Sustainable Connected Cities'.