Intimacy and Ageing by Torbjrn Bildtgrd
To begin new relationships in later life is increasingly common in large parts of the Western world. This timely book addresses the gap in knowledge about late life repartnering and provides a comprehensive map of the changing landscape of late life intimacy. Part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, the book examines the changing structural conditions of intimacy and ageing in late modernity. How do longer lives, changing norms and new technologies affect older people's relationship careers, their attitudes to repartnering and in the formation of new relationships? Which forms do these new unions take? What does a new intimate relationship offer older men and women and what are the consequences for social integration? What is the role and meaning of sex? By introducing a gains-perspective the book challenges stereotypes of old age as a period of loss and decline. It also challenges the image of older people as conservative, and instead presents them as an avant-garde that often experiment with new ways of being together.-
Aging and Climate Change
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Ageing and Technology
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Diverse Transnational Care
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Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Sexualities
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Gender, Ageing and Extended Working Life
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Age-Friendly Cities and Communities
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Precarity and Ageing
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Ethnicity and Old Age
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Ageing in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ageing and Globalisation
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Ageing Equitably with Care
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Retirement Migration and Precarity in Later Life
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Civic Engagement in Later Life
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Ageing in Everyday Life
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Reimagining Age-Friendly Communities
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Ageing, Men and Social Relations
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The Environments of Ageing
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Ageing and the Media
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Care for Older Adults in India
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Ageing and the Crisis in Health and Social Care
At last, an account of ageing intimacy that blows away stereotypes to engage with the complexitiesA must-read for academics and those working with older people. Dr Paul Simpson, Edge Hill University
Torbjörn Bildtgård is Associate Professor in Sociology at Stockholm University, Sweden. Torbjörn has published mainly within two research areas – Food and Meal Studies and Social Gerontology.
Peter Öberg is Professor in Social work, at the Faculty of Health and Occupational Studies, University of Gävle, Sweden. He has devoted his academic career to social gerontology and he is currently Editor in Chief for The International Journal of Ageing and Later Life.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781447326502 |
| ISBN 10 | 1447326504 |
| Title | Intimacy and Ageing |
| Author | Torbjrn Bildtgrd |
| Series | Ageing In A Global Context |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Policy Press |
| Year published | 2018-12-12 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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