Miranda Leontowitsch

Researching Later Life and Ageing (eBook, PDF)

Expanding Qualitative Research Horizons

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection on researching later life and ageing critically reflects upon the qualitative methods used in gaining knowledge of under-researched groups of older people and sets out future research agendas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137271372
• Artikelnr.: 43970329

Autorenporträt

CHRISTINE BIGBY Director of Postgraduate Programmes in the School of Social Work and Social Policy at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia LAURA HURD CLARKE Associate Professor in the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada PAUL HIGGS Professor of the Sociology of Ageing at UCL, UK KAREN LOWTON Senior Lecture in Ageing and Health at King's College London, UK SUE MALTA PhD candidate in the Faculty of Life and Social Sciences at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia MARY MACMASTER PhD Candidate at the Department of Fine Arts and Media Research at Norwich University College of the Arts, UK BARBARA L. MARSHALL Professor of Sociology at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada WENDY MARTIN Lecturer in Health Studies at the School of Health Sciences and Social Care, Brunel University, UK JANE SEYMOUR Sue Ryder Care Professor of Palliative and End-of-Life Studies, University of Nottingham, UK CHRISTINA VICTOR Professor of Gerontology and Public Health in the School of Health Sciences and Director of the Health Ageing programme at the Brunel Institute for Ageing Studies (BIAS) at Brunel University, UK MARIA ZUBAIR Research Associate at the School of Community Based Medicine at The University of Manchester, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; M.Leontowitsch PART I: RESEARCH AGENDAS Later Life as an Arena of Change; P.Higgs Researching the Body and Embodiment in Later Life; L.Hurd Clarke Reconceptualising Later Life: Using Qualitative Methods to Refine Understanding of New Ageing Populations; K.Lowton PART II: UNDER-RESEARCHED AGEING POPULATIONS Learning to be Pakistani the Female Way: Issues of Identity, Trust and Recruitment when Researching Older Pakistani Muslims in the UK; M.Zubair , W.Martin & C.Victor Piecing Together Experiences of Older People with Intellectual Disability; C.Bigby Interviewing Older Men; M.Leontowitsch PART III: OLD AND NEW QUALITATIVE METHODS Using Focus Groups for Researching End of Life Care Issues with Older People; J.Seymour Using Online Methods to Interview Older Adults about their Romantic and Sexual Relationships; S.Malta Growing Old for Real: Women, Image and Identity; M.McMaster Afterword: Issues, Agendas and Modes of Engagement; B.Marshall Index

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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; M.Leontowitsch PART I: RESEARCH AGENDAS Later Life as an Arena of Change; P.Higgs Researching the Body and Embodiment in Later Life; L.Hurd Clarke Reconceptualising Later Life: Using Qualitative Methods to Refine Understanding of New Ageing Populations; K.Lowton PART II: UNDER-RESEARCHED AGEING POPULATIONS Learning to be Pakistani the Female Way: Issues of Identity, Trust and Recruitment when Researching Older Pakistani Muslims in the UK; M.Zubair , W.Martin & C.Victor Piecing Together Experiences of Older People with Intellectual Disability; C.Bigby Interviewing Older Men; M.Leontowitsch PART III: OLD AND NEW QUALITATIVE METHODS Using Focus Groups for Researching End of Life Care Issues with Older People; J.Seymour Using Online Methods to Interview Older Adults about their Romantic and Sexual Relationships; S.Malta Growing Old for Real: Women, Image and Identity; M.McMaster Afterword: Issues, Agendas and Modes of Engagement; B.Marshall Index