
Disability and Ageing
Towards a Critical Perspective
Ann Leahy(Author)
Policy Press
1st Edition
Published on 10. January 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-4473-5716-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Series
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bristol University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
1 s/w Tabelle
1 Tables, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
367 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4473-5716-2 (9781447357162)
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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.
Content
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
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