Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology

Other author Twigg, Julia.
Other author Martin, Wendy (Lecturer in Public Health), editor.
Format Electronic
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoOxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.
Description1 online resource (526 p.).
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SeriesRoutledge International Handbooks Series
Routledge International Handbooks Series.
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Revisiting cultural gerontology: Exploring the landscape ten years on -- Part 1 The politics and theorising of ageing -- Chapter 2 From successful ageing to ageing well -- Chapter 3 The cultural turn in gerontology -- Chapter 4 Transitions and time in an unstable context -- Chapter 5 Global and local ties and the reconstruction of later life -- Chapter 6 Money and finance in later life -- Chapter 7 The civic culture in ageing societies
Contents Chapter 8 Aged by culture in the new COVID era -- Chapter 9 Intersectionality and paradoxes of inequality -- Chapter 10 Culture, ethnicity, race, and migrancy -- Chapter 11 The race(ing) of ageing studies: Disrupting the veil of Whiteness -- Chapter 12 Indigenous Elders, older adults, and ageing -- Chapter 13 Beyond the view of the West: Ageing and anthropology -- Part 2 Materiality and embodiment -- Chapter 14 Theorising embodiment and ageing -- Chapter 15 An intersectional consideration of ageing and the body -- Chapter 16 Sex, sexuality and later life -- Chapter 17 The smile in older age
Contents Chapter 18 Dress and age -- Chapter 19 Materiality and ageing -- Chapter 20 Architectural imaginaries and cultures of care in later life -- Chapter 21 Meanings of home and age -- Chapter 22 Gardens and gardening in later life -- Chapter 23 Cemeteries and age -- Chapter 24 Ageing, physical activity and sport -- Part 3 Cultures of care -- Chapter 25 Cultures of care -- Chapter 26 Personhood and the dilemmas of dementia care -- Chapter 27 Dementia and embodiment -- Chapter 28 The fourth age -- Chapter 29 Loneliness and isolation -- Chapter 30 Suffering and pain in old age
Contents Chapter 31 Medical humanities and cultural gerontology -- Part 4 Identities and social relationships -- Chapter 32 Anti-ageing and identities -- Chapter 33 Representations of ageing in the media -- Chapter 34 Youth culture, ageing and identity -- Chapter 35 Gender: Some implications of a contested concept and area of social life -- Chapter 36 Queering cultural gerontology -- Chapter 37 Ethnographies of ageing -- Chapter 38 The value of religion, spirituality, and humanism to older people -- Chapter 39 Ageing workers -- Chapter 40 Lifestyle migration, ageing, and the meaning of relative privilege
Contents Chapter 41 Widowhood and its cultural representations -- Chapter 42 Ageing and biographical methods -- Part 5 Arts and technologies -- Chapter 43 Art, ageing, and the gendered body -- Chapter 44 Literature and age -- Chapter 45 Ageing in film -- Chapter 46 Visual methods in ageing research -- Chapter 47 Celebrity culture and ageing -- Chapter 48 Ageing and Popular Music -- Chapter 49 Rethinking late-life creativity: Beyond 'late style' -- Chapter 50 Ageing playfully -- Chapter 51 From chronological age to biomarkers of ageing: A historical cultural sociology
Abstract The second edition of this landmark handbook provides an authoritative overview of the emergence and development of cultural gerontology. It reveals the vibrancy and diversity of research and research methods, reflects on changes in the field since the first edition and examines future directions.
General noteDescription based upon print version of record.
General noteChapter 52 Science, technology and ageing
Issued in other formPrint version: Twigg, Julia Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2026 9781032273075
ISBN9781040440179
ISBN1040440177
ISBN9781040440186
ISBN1040440185

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