Disability and Ageing

Towards a Critical Perspective
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4473-5716-2
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 367 g

Establishing a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue, this text engages with the typically disparate fields of social gerontology and disability studies. It investigates the subjective experiences of two groups rarely considered together in research – people ageing with long-standing disability and people first experiencing disability with ageing.

This book challenges assumptions about impairment in later life and the residual nature of the ‘fourth age’. It proposes that the experience of ‘disability’ in older age reaches beyond the bodily context and can involve not only a challenge to a sense of value and meaning in life, but also ongoing efforts in response.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leahy, Ann

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Soziologie & Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Kranken-, Alten- und Behindertenhilfe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

Part 1: The context for disablement in older age

2. Defining disability

3. Literature: ageing, disability and lifecourse

4. Public policies on ageing and disability

Part 2: Empirical findings

5. Disabling bodies

6. Disabling or enabling contexts

7. Responding to challenges

8. Comparison: disability with ageing and ageing with disability

9. Conclusion

Methodological annexe

Über Autor(innen)

Leahy, Ann
Ann Leahy is Irish Research Council Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Maynooth University. She was previously Assistant CEO of Age & Opportunity, an age-sector NGO in Ireland.

Ann Leahy is a postdoctoral researcher at the ERC-funded DANCING Project at Maynooth University’s Department of Law and the ALL Institute. She was previously Assistant CEO of Age & Opportunity, a non-governmental organisation in Ireland.