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Successful aging: ambition and ambivalence

This book argues that a narrow policy on successful ageing excludes a large portion of ageing individuals from the quest for a good life in old age. It explores various models defining successful ageing and argues that successful ageing in guiding policy will profit by following a pluralistic and ho...

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Main Authors: Tesch-Römer, Clemens (Author) , Wahl, Hans-Werner (Author) , Rattan, Suresh I. S. (Author) , Ayalon, Liat (Author)
Format: Book/Monograph
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2022
Edition:First edition
Subjects:
Verschleierung
Ambivalenz
Soziale Norm
Erwartung
Lebensqualität
Erfolg
Altern
Gerontologie
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Aggregator, Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780192897534.pdf
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Author Notes:Clemens Tesch-Römer, Hans-Werner Wahl with Suresh I.S. Rattan, Liat Ayalon
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Summary:This book argues that a narrow policy on successful ageing excludes a large portion of ageing individuals from the quest for a good life in old age. It explores various models defining successful ageing and argues that successful ageing in guiding policy will profit by following a pluralistic and holistic view.
Cover -- Half Title page -- Successful Ageing -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- I. CONCEPTIONS OF SUCCESSFUL AGEING -- 1. History of successful ageing -- 2. Biological perspectives on successful ageing -- 3. A taxonomy of successful ageing conceptions -- II. STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESSFUL AGEING -- 4. Individual strategies for successful ageing -- 5. Physical- spatial- technological environments and successful ageing -- 6. Social bonds, care, and successful ageing -- 7. Social inequality, the welfare state, and successful ageing -- III. AMBIVALENCES AND AMBITIONS OF SUCCESSFUL AGEING -- 8. Successful ageing and ageism: A bidirectional model of influence -- 9. Towards a new narrative on successful ageing -- References -- Index.
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ISBN:9780192651952

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