anthro_age: A Pathfinder

This is a computer-generated pathfinder created against the Distant Reader study called anthro_age.

Each Distant Reader study carrel is composed of many individual items. Each item is bibliographically described with author, title, date, summary, and keyword values. Below is a list of the items' most signficant keywords as well as lists of the items themselves. Purpusing the content of this pathfinder provides the student, researcher, or scholar with one way to get their heads around the scope of the carrel. The keywords include:

Anthropology; Life; Care; People; Age; Book; Family; Health; Home; Adults; Women; Work; Review; Chapter; Participants; Japan; Social; Body; Technology; Death; Film; Men; Disease; Authors; Project; Gerontology; Migrants; Aage; Games; Media; Disability; Individual; Dance; Cancer; Play; Seniors; Aaq; And$; Harrington; Disaster; Contemporary; Asia; Grand

Depending on how this pathfinder was created, many of the bibliographic sections will include elaborations on the meaning(s) of the given keywords. These elaborations were generated by feeding the items' summaries to a large langauge model and asking the model to address the question, "What is X?", where "X" is the keyword. The result will be a few sentences of elaboration. Be forewarned. The elaborations are often plausible, but they should not be take as truth. Instead, they should be taken as points for consideration.

Anthropology

Active Aging: Hiking, Health, and Healing by Steadman, Rodney; Nykiforuk, Candace I. J.; Vallianatos, Helen (2013) - Holistic health programs such as hiking groups could provide an alternative or ancillary treatment options. Future research on health and healing in this age group would benefit from an analysis of hiking groups that consisted of more diverse ethnic backgrounds. Keywords: activities; activity; age; aging; anthropology; body; experiences; fhc; group; healing; health; hiking; life; members; pain; participants; physical; research; walking
Societal Participation of the Elderly: Information and Communication Technologies as a “Social Junction” by Biniok, Peter; Menke, Iris (2015) - More important was its effect at the structural level: new participation space emerged in addition to the activity and participation space previously accessible by physical movement. The integration of new technologies into the lifeworlds of individuals must occur on both levels: “Access to ICT for the promotion of social inclusion cannot rest on providing devices or conduits alone. Keywords: aging; anthropology; biniok; communication; information; life; menke; new; online; participants; participation; participation space; people; space; tablet; technologies; technology; technoscape; use
Multivalent moves in senior home care: From surveillance to care-valence by Lutz, Peter A. (2015) - Thus, in the movements of care attention bodies and their technologies emerge as categorically and ontologically unstable. Here, “new means” refers to the research and development, as well as the implementation of home care technologies, and coupled with the reconfiguration of healthcare coordination and delivery. Keywords: aging; anthropology; attentions; beth; body; care; care attentions; effects; home; home care; lutz; moves; multivalent; perspective; robert; surveillance; technologies; technology; telecare
Design for Aging: Perspectives on Technology, Older Adults, and Educating Engineers by Lynch, Caitrin (2015) - The majority of students are Olin engineering students in the second semester of their first year; cross-registered students from a wide range of majors at Wellesley, undergraduate and MBA students from Babson, and foreign exchange students have also participated in the class. To attract new students into design for aging, we presume no engineering or design background. Keywords: adults; aging; anthropology; college; design; engineering; lynch; people; students
Review: Unforgotten: Love and the Culture of Dementia Care in India (Bianca Brijnath) by Jayaraman, Nirmala (2015) - Brijnath focuses on how love and social relationships motivate people to care for older family members beyond what is expected of them in contemporary society (pp.184-185). For example, in her formal and informal interviews, Brijnath observes that women caregivers and elderly women patients are at risk of being neglected and even abused if public and health policies are not enforced to protect them (p.167). Keywords: aging; anthropology; brijnath
Of Technoscapes and Elderscapes: Editor’s Commentary on the Special Issue “Aging the Technoscape” by Danely, Jason (2015) - While technological innovations, materials, and know-how circulate the globe, and as technologies are increasingly designed for older users, how will our relationship to technology and to age change? Technologies are moving more rapidly than ever across and between these boundaries, creating the grounds for new abilities and disabilities, ways to better include older adults in society, and disjunctures that marginalize them. Keywords: aging; anthropology; technology; technoscape
Social Contract on Elderly Caregiving in Contemporary Chile by Salazar, Carola (2017) - Varones De Santiago De Chile En Conflicto. La Memoria Olvidada: Historia De Los Pueblos Indígenas De Chile. Keywords: aa.2017.134; age; aging; anthropology; caregiving; chile; chilean; country; doi; family; http://anthro-age.pitt.edu; online; pension; people; population; research; salazar; santiago; social; system; vol; women
The Institutional Aging Process. Ethnographic Explorations of Aging Processes and Dimensions in Danish Schools and Eldercare Institutions by Grøn, Lone; Ladekjær, Else (2017) - He is still a young man, chronologically, even though he is old in terms of institutional age. Social age Keywords: age; aging; anthropology; children; danish; day; fieldwork; grade; grøn; ingold; ladekjær; people; process; processes; school; spaces; vol
Reducing Falls in Older Adults: A Qualitative Exploration of an Intergenerational Tai Chi Class by Miller, Thomas; Scott, Mary Alice (2017) - The intervention paired kinesiology student-instructors with older adult participants in the class, creating intergenerational dyads that supported participants physically, socially, and mentally. Three interviewees compared this class to other exercise classes, noting that in other classes instructors often moved too quickly and did not provide sufficient guidance or one-on-one assistance. Keywords: anthropology; miller; online; scott
Disability, Participation and Apparel throughout the Life Course by Dimka, Jessica; Kabel, Allison; McBee-Black, Kerri (2023) - Survey results included (1) difficulties finding or purchasing appropriate clothing and some apparel-related barriers to participation were more frequently reported by respondents in older age groups and (2) the increase in complications were not simply directly associated with aging. Members of older age groups reported being more likely to decline to participate in social activities (the “Participate” question) because of clothing barriers. Keywords: age; aging; anthropology; apparel; barriers; clothing; concerns; disability; doi; groups; health; participation; questions
Book Reviews by Kovacich, Joann (2013) - Additionally, contributors present the most pertinent issues related to the measurement and application while advising and encouraging scholars to explore the complex and unanswered questions as they investigate and develop programs of resilience research. Additionally, contributors review the current state of the literature and articulate trends in the frontier of resilience research at large. Keywords: adults; aging; anthropology; authors; book; care; chapter; den; health; hoonaard; life; men; people; research; resilience; reviews; studies; validation; van; volume
A Spirit of Adventure in Retirement: Japanese Baby Boomers and the Ethos of Interdependence by Moore, Katrina Louise (2023) - Rejecting the theory that disengagement from social life is a necessary aspect of ageing, productive ageing advocates seek to identify social participation opportunities for elders (Hughes and Heycox 2010:.76). Toshi noted that the transition to retired life was easy at first: regaining his health became an all- consuming concern. Keywords: aging; anthropology; doi; family; home; japan; keiko; kenji; life; new; online; people; reliance; responsibility; retirement; self; vol; wife; work
Energy, Aging, and Neurasthenia: A Historical Perspective by Andersen, Michael (2019) - Beard argued that masturbation, gambling, and illicit sexual or financial activity were a waste of nervous energy, while productive work and procreation were valuable reinvestments of energy (ibid.). In relation to sexual energy, masturbation was portrayed in numerous descriptions at this time as draining the body of energy. Keywords: age; aging; anthropology; beard; body; century; diagnosis; disease; energy; force; life; neurasthenia; new; society
Age-Inscriptions and Social Change by Coe, Cati; Alber, Erdmute (2018) - Actors and Institutions The making of new age inscriptions can be driven by practices of older people themselves, through their agency or “the socially mediated capacity to act” (Ahearn 2001b, 112). At other times, age norms are articulated in formulaic and conventional discourses, what Bourdieu (1977) called orthodoxy. Keywords: age; aging; alber; anthropology; care; change; coe; course; inscription; kin; life; migration; new; norms; people; press; university; ways; work
Challenging Marginalization at the Universities of the Third Age in Poland by Robbins-Ruszkowski, Jessica C (2013) - Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2013: 34 (2) 157 Marginalization through national historical politics In contemporary Poland, older people often describe and experience old age as a time in the life course marked by discrimination and marginalization. In the public sphere, older people speak of rudeness on city buses and trams (“no one gives up their seat for us”), and of feeling “transparent” (“przeroczysty”) on the street. Keywords: age; aging; anthropology; article; discrimination; gazeta; institutions; life; marginalization; new; people; person; poland; poles; polish; press; robbins; słuchacze; universities; university; women; wyborcza; łukaszewski
The Editor's Note by Hughes Rinker, Cortney (2017) - While fertility rates have declined worldwide with aging populations, they have remained somewhat steady in the Middle East and North Africa and are not decreasing as quickly as in some other places (Hajjar et al. 2013). Microsoft Word - EditorWelcomex.docx The Editor’s Note Cortney Hughes Rinker Department of Anthropology, George Mason University Author contact: chughe13@gmu.edu Anthropology & Aging, Vol 38, No 2 (2017), pp. Keywords: aging; anthropology; population; research
Advance Care Planning: Training and Providing an Anthropological Critique of Cultural Competence to Health Care Professionals by Hughes Rinker, Cortney; Inoue, Megumi; Vargas-Jackson, Rebecca (2017) - Vargas-Jackson discussed health literacy and the need for care that meets residents or clients where they are as well as stigma in health care. At the same time, we had to balance this critique of cultural competence with emphasizing the actual importance of providing health care that is attentive to various social and cultural factors. Keywords: acp; anthropology; care; cultural; end; health; life; training
Graduate Student Commentary by Ryan, Carrie H (2017) - ‘I’ve seen young people die in my years way before their time. Additionally, fieldwork shapes the anthropologist, and the graduate’s first field particularly so. Keywords: aging; anthropology; community; dying; fieldwork; grief; retirement
Retirement Abroad as Women’s Aging Strategy by Gambold, Liesl (2013) - Since more women are living their post-retirement lives alone and in economically challenging situations, this paper examines the mobility of older women in the form of international retirement migration as a strategy to ameliorate levels of economic and general well-being. Thus older women become coerced into self-reliance by government policies and societal expectations, a problem whose magnitude is inadequately evaluated by both feminists and gerontologists (Cruikshank 2009). Keywords: 2013; age; aging; anthropology; data; france; friends; health; international; irm; liesl; life; living; mexico; migration; new; research; retirees; retirement; states; women; years
Capitalizing and Compensating: Older Adults’ Religious and Spiritual Uses of Technology by Kang, Samantha L.C.; Endacott, Camille G; Gonzales, Gabrielle G; Bengtson, Vern L (2019) - Older adults aged 65 years appear to differ in their technology use than those aged 80 years and above—indeed, a PEW Research Report from 2017 showed that 95% of older adults ages 65-69 owned a cellphone while only 58% of older adults aged 80+ did. The results demonstrate support for Carstensen’s Socio-Emotional Selectivity Theory and have implications for practitioners working with older adults, such as social workers and clergy, as well as for marketers in industry. Keywords: adults; aging; anthropology; bible; church; internet; kang; lives; online; participants; people; research; study; technologies; technology; time; use
Aging and the End Times: Evangelical Eschatology and Experiences of Elderhood in the United States and South Africa by Bafford, Douglas (2019) - One response to physical decline in older age would be to mourn the loss of the youthful person, but Graham calls for an embrace of the suffering in old age as an obstacle to be overcome in the overall evangelistic process. Although conservative Christians face opprobrium for their rejection of the values of liberal secular modernity, anthropologists over the past few decades have begun to direct their attention toward an examination of evangelical lives as semiotically complex systems (Harding 1991, 2000; Bielo 2011). Keywords: africa; age; aging; anthropology; apartheid; christians; church; evangelicals; god; life; new; online; people; press; south; time; university; vol; white; world
Book Review: The Art of Life and Death: Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice by Loewenthal, John (2019) - John Loewenthal Oxford Brookes University & New York University The Art of Life and Death is the second book in HAU’s series of Malinowski Monographs which are aimed at constructing innovative, ethnographically-inspired theory. In response, he experiments with collaborative methods to render audible people’s inner speech as they contemplate life situations within everyday settings. Keywords: anthropology; book; irving; life; people
Heterotopia and Illness: Older women and Hypertension in a Brazilian Favela by Leibing, Annette (2014) - For older individuals, who experience more Abstract This article is about older women and the way hypertension is linked to their life in a favela, a “shantytown”, in Rio de Janeiro. The hill with its huts made of zinc O morro com seus barracões de zinco How splendid it is in the early morning Quando amanhecer que esplendor (“Exaltação a Mangueira,” Samba composed by Enéas B. Silva and Aloisio A. Costa, 1956; my translation) * Mangueira is a well-known favela (‘shantytown’) in Rio de Janeiro M-16P. G-3. Keywords: aging; annette; anthropology; favela; foucault; group; health; heterotopia; hill; hypertension; illness; janeiro; leibing; life; place; post; pressure; rio; risk; social; space; violence; women
Aging and Personhood in the Landscape of the Mega-Casino: Retirement at the Tables by Ciofi, Joy (2019) - However, the reality of the expansion of casino gambling across the United States is more mundane, and skews demographically much older, with a full 64% of casino visitors being over 50, and 28% over 65 (AGA 2013). Regardless, tribal casinos continue to represent a significant portion of the expansion of casino gambling nationally. Keywords: activities; activity; adults; age; aging; anthropology; casino; ciofi; gambling; life; new; online; participants; personhood; places; retirement; time; value; work
Keeping the Elderly Alive: Global Entanglements and Embodied Practices in Long-Term Care in Southeast Italy by Nicolescu, Gabriela (2019) - I argue that migrant live-in care work for the elderly is a combination of attentive practice and detachment in completion to the current description of care work as ritual and as tinkering and adaptation. Keywords: care work, elderly, dementia, migration, Italy, badanti Anthropology & Aging, Vol 40, No 1 (2019), pp. Keywords: aging; anthropology; badanti; camelia; care; care work; children; families; family; italian; italy; migrant; patients; pepi; romania; signora; time; vali; work; workers
Dancing while Aging: A Study on Benefits of Ballet for Older Women by Pines, Rachyl; Giles, Howard (2020) - The contrast between professional ballet dancers’ aging experience as negative, and the known benefits of cultural recreational activities such as dance as positive, encourages inquiry into older ballet dancers who are recreational participants. Answering this question in terms of professional ballet dancers, ballerinas are encouraged to begin training as early as possible, and careers end early as well.1 According to a popular dance magazine, Dancespirit, ballet dancers are often expected to be career-ready by as early as 16 years old. Keywords: age; aging; anthropology; ballet; communication; dance; dancers; doi; giles; identity; participants; relationships; research; self; study; women
Chronic Living and Delayed Death in Chinese Eldercare Institutions by Keimig, Rose Kay (2020) - The centrality of Confucian thought in Chinese social life contributes to the observation that Chinese people rarely discuss the afterlife or other metaphysical mysteries (Guang 2013). As with Zhang Wei, these elders experienced social death long before their unmanageable bodies released them (Biehl 2005; Lock 2002). Keywords: aging; anthropology; care; china; chinese; chronic; death; dying; elders; end; family; home; institutions; life; living; long; nursing; university; vol
Person-Oriented Research Ethics and Dementia:The Lack of Consensus by Silva, Olivia; Cascio, M. Ariel; Racine, Eric (2020) - The review is limited to articles published between 2013 and 2017 This five-year range thus represented an exploratory investigation into the cutting edge of dementia research ethics. Despite the wealth of information on dementia research ethics, there is a distinct lack of explicit and consolidated dementia-specific guidelines available to researchers beyond the more conventional regulatory requirements about topics such as consent and confidentiality. Keywords: aging; anthropology; cascio; consent; decision; dementia; dementia research; doi; ethics; journal; literature; participant; people; person; racine; research; research ethics; researchers; study
A Conversation with Dr. Janelle S. Taylor, President of AAGE by Mitzen, Levi (2019) - I asked Dr. Taylor if she could speak more on the issue of accessibility of scholarly work. However, Dr. Taylor also acknowledged some of the challenges facing a non-profit model of published scholarly work: “It does raise questions of what is the financial model that is going to support the work of doing scholarly work and publishing it. Keywords: anthropology; taylor; work
Religion in Times of Change: The Effects of Aging on Religious Lives by Hughes Rinker, Cortney; Mitzen, Levi (2019) - Although they approach religion and aging through two different lenses—the first through the use of technology among older adults and the second through a cross-cultural analysis of how Christian ideology helps practitioners address the daily physical and social effects of aging—both address the ways that the relationship between religion and aging is developed within particular social and individual contexts. The authors also address how religion can provide meaning to older adults’ in their daily lives and make them feel connected to each other. Keywords: adults; aging; anthropology; religion
Book Reviews by Kovacich, Joann (2013) - The book summarizes the findings from a large survey of older adults living in independent senior housing communities and from focus groups conducted with senior caregivers, service coordinators, and activities directors. The current economic crisis has brought the plight of older adults in the United States workforce into sharp focus. Keywords: adults; aging; anthropology; authors; book; lynch; quarterly; work; workers
Caring through Sound and Silence: Technology and the Sound of Everyday Life in Homes for the Elderly by Greubel, Carla (2020) - However, the institutional setting implies that the boundaries between private and public, and between self-decided and not self-decided use of sound technologies, blur, as who turns music on and off, for whom, and for what purpose is not only a question of institutional power relations. My assumption was that in a nursing home based on this worldview I might come across explicit avoidance of sound technologies (Heine 2009). Keywords: anthropology; care; caregivers; homes; institutions; listening; music; residents; room; self; silence; sounds; technology
Time and Collective Biology: Relationships Between Individual and Societal Life Course Ideologies in Mexican Men’s Sexual Health Treatment by Wentzell, Emily (2021) - The notion of Mexican men as inherently macho—emotionally closed and obsessed with power, invulnerability, and virility—became popular in the 1950s and consequently became identified with what it meant to be a Mexican man. Such hopes incorporate a cultural notion of teleology, as they focus on moving Mexican men away from the problematic past embedded in their biology and toward a future of modern behavior that will also enable better health. Keywords: aging; anthropology; change; doi; gender; health; life; medicine; men; mexican; mexico; participants; people; press; study; time; university; wentzell
AAGE and Age: A Conversation with Dr. Christine L. Fry, Founding President of AAGE by Woodward, Janis; Culbert, Brandan (2019) - Dr. Fry is a seminal figure in the development of the field of anthropology of aging and has played an important role in fostering a community of scholars dedicated to understanding gerontology and the life course. In May 2019, in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of AAGE, we had the opportunity to interview Dr. Fry and discuss her career and the future of AAGE, all while simultaneously gaining important insights about gerontology and anthropology. Keywords: aage; aging; anthropology; fry
Growing Old in the Margins in Lima, Perú by Zegarra Chiappori, Magdalena (2019) - There was a clear mandate of what dimensions of social life in the shelter should be visible, such as nurses staring fixedly at and smiling at residents in wheelchairs, groups of older adults dancing to the latest hits, and people playing with balloons while being entertained, and what should not be visible, such as bed-ridden resident’s stunted feet, dilapidated rooms, and senile men and women tired of monotony and being disoriented. As old people under these circumstances often times appear to be “gone,” what is needed, I believe, is to start thinking in different ways of being in the world that are not only circumscribed to words, to being “aware,” and to generating economic growth. Keywords: anthropology; care; fieldwork; institution; life; lima; merced; people; residents
Energy and Aging in the Danish Welfare State: Ethnographic Explorations of an Omnipresent but Forgotten Concept by Hvenegaard Mikkelsen, Henrik; Schwennesen, Nete; Lassen, Aske Juul (2019) - The textbook understanding of energy states that energy cannot be created or destroyed but only transformed. Energy, we believe, offers us a novel framework for moving beyond the dualistic images of “old age” and “the state,” since using energy as an analytic lens allows us to explore Mikkelsen, Schwennesen, and Lassen | Anthropology & Aging Vol 40, No 2 (2019) Keywords: age; aging; anthropology; concept; energy; health; lassen; mikkelsen; schwennesen; state; university; welfare
Social Dancing for Successful Ageing: Models for Health, Happiness and Social Inclusion amongst Senior Citizens by Skinner, Jonathan (2013) - Social ballroom dance, in particular, has its own distinctive history. He dances two or three times a week around the Greater Sacramento environs, California, attending the tea dances or social dances in the afternoons, and occasionally the weekly Friday or Saturday night dance nights when live bands play. Keywords: aging; anthropology; ballroom; blackpool; body; citizens; dance; dancers; dancing; ireland; jonathan; life; london; new; northern; people; programme; sacramento; skinner; social; years
Reading and Wellbeing in Old Age by Ryan, Carrie (2019) - The more I thought about LitHits and older adult loneliness, the more I became intrigued. In order to discern the potential impact of reading on older adult loneliness in the contemporary context, we have generated a research proposal that aims to address the conceptual and public gaps in loneliness and reading research through a genuinely interdisciplinary approach. Keywords: ageing; anthropology; loneliness; reading; research; wellbeing
“Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery”: Dying in South African Frail Care by Golomski, Casey (2020) - In the few instances where black staff and white residents talked openly among each other about apartheid or the history of colonialism, these quickly transformed into joking situations, sacrificing personal or political standpoints for a necessity to be amicable as part of their role in the caregiving-resident relationship (Golomski 2020). Many white residents were middle to lower-class when occupationally active, identifying as having been housewives, farmers, or entrepreneurs. Keywords: aging; anthropology; care; death; dying; god; golomski; history; home; life; past; people; present; residents; south; staff; time; white
An Attitude of Gratitude: Older Japanese in the Hopeful Present by Kavedzija, Iza (2020) - While the later years may be marked by loss, many older people become actively engaged in “rituals of concern” and strengthen their links with their ancestors by taking a leading role in the family practices of caring for ancestral tablets in domestic Buddhist altars (Traphagan 2004). Many other older people in Shimoichi, including volunteers in the salon (who were mostly in their sixties or early seventies), much like Kobayashi san, harbored a diffuse but enduring hope that things will all work out in the end, without necessarily expecting that the favors bestowed would be returned. Keywords: aging; anthropology; attitude; future; gratitude; hope; japan; kavedžija; life; people; san; sense; space; time; work
Family, Time, and Meaning toward the End of Life in Japan by Long, Susan (2023) - Other deaths take place in homes, with the assistance of family care and services of the long term care system. While recognizing the need to address the situation, mainly by promoting innovative programs to local governments (e.g., Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare n.d.), the Japanese government does not report the number of such deaths, and there is no legal definition of what is officially called “isolated deaths (koritsushi).” Keywords: aa.2020.246; aging; anthropology; care; death; doi; end; family; future; issn; japan; japanese; life; living; long; online; people; person; relationships; society; time; university; vol
Aging Well as Activism: Advancing the Mexican Social Body through Individually Successful Aging by Wentzell, Emily (2020) - Living and promoting a health “culture of prevention” Ricardo and Itzel engaged enthusiastically in health care, often discussing the importance of frequent check-ups to achieving a healthy and active later life. This was exemplified by their efforts to recruit others into research studies and health care and to combat the “ignorance” which prevented such participation. Keywords: aging; anthropology; care; couple; family; government; health; itzel; life; mexican; mexico; people; populace; research; ricardo; time; wentzell
When Does Fertility End? The Timing of Tubal Ligations and Hysterectomies, and the Meaning of Menopause by Sievert, Lynnette Leidy; Huicochea-Gómez, Laura; Cahuich-Campos, Diana; Morrison, Lynn; Brown, Daniel E. (2021) - Post- menopausal women (35%) were more likely to choose freedom compared to pre- (16%) or peri- (28%) menopausal women; there was no difference by hysterectomy or tubal ligation status. We did not show that a history of tubal ligation or hysterectomy was associated with attitudes toward menopause in Campeche among pre- or peri- menopausal women. Keywords: age; aging; anthropology; birth; campeche; end; fertility; health; hilo; history; hysterectomy; ligation; mean; menarche; menopause; mexico; puebla; range; sievert; study; women; years
Knowing and Not Knowing about Fertility: Childless Women and Age-Related Fertility Decline by Martin, Lauren Jade (2021) - The majority of cases cited in this article draw upon the first wave of interviews, which included explicit questions about fertility knowledge and awareness. Nine participants (12.5%) did not include much self-assessment of fertility knowledge during their interviews and were thereby not categorized. Keywords: age; aging; anthropology; decline; fertility; fertility decline; health; information; issn; knowledge; martin; medical; online; participants; self; sources; study; women
Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the Conceptualization of Ageing in India by Majumdar, Anindita (2021) - In interviews with young women frequenting IVF clinics in their 20s, many mentioned familial pressure as the main reason for visiting the clinic. In the city of Hisar, within an area of 3983 kilometers per square, there were approximately four IVF clinics operating at the same time. Keywords: age; aging; anthropology; clinic; couples; decline; fertility; hisar; hyderabad; india; ivf; marriage; reproduction; treatment; wife; women; years
Debating “Good” Care: The Challenges of Dementia Care in Shanghai, China by Zhang, Yan (2020) - Abstract The increasing number of dementia sufferers in China has transformed dementia care from a private issue to a public concern. Keywords: dementia care; state-society relations; forms of life; China; humanitarian ethics; Confucian values Anthropology & Aging, Vol 41, No 1 (2020), pp. Keywords: aging; aides; anthropology; care; caregivers; china; dementia; dementia care; eldercare; family; home; life; nursing; press; services; shanghai; state; sufferers; university; zhang
Book Review: Living Before Dying: Imagining and Remembering Home by Vana, Noa; Hazan, Haim (2020) - Most importantly, Davies highlights the vitality of the interactions and interdependency of care assistants and older people with dementia in everyday care practices and temporalities as they are continuously negotiated against the backdrop of management's constraints which are deeply impacted by profit-making goals. Despite these analytical and methodological shortcomings, Davies provides ample valuable suggestions for improving residential home care. Keywords: anthropology; care; davies; home
Participants and Observations: Dementia and the Challenge for Anthropology by Kao, Philip (2020) - ISSN 2374-2267 (online) DOI 10.5195/aa.2020.269 http://anthro-age.pitt.edu 3 Participants and Observations Dementia and the Challenge for Anthropology Philip Kao Harvard Univeristy philip_kao@fas.harvard.edu Roughly forty professional and student anthropologists from around the world gathered together on September 19th and 20th, 2019 to share their research on dementia and dementia care. Discussions stemming from some of the presented papers also illuminated the evolving interpersonal relationships in the context of dementia and dementia care. Keywords: aging; anthropologists; anthropology; care; dementia; workshop
Dressing the Older Woman in Post-Mao China: Perspectives from Official Feminist Mass Media and Ordinary Chinese Women by Shea, Jeanne L. (2014) - Likewise, in contrast to Twigg’s (2007, 2013) related notion of society “disciplining the body” of older women, I show how older Chinese women were portrayed in official Chinese feminist media of the time as, instead, un-disciplining a body once constrained by Maoism and poverty. Xue (1987) entreated older Chinese women to strive for “understated elegance” to keep up with modern times and project a “dignified” image on national and international stages (43). Keywords: acwf; age; aging; anthropology; body; china; chinese; clothing; cultural; dress; dressing; era; fashion; feminist; mao; media; new; online; shea; women
The Editor's Note by Mikkelsen, Henrik Hvenegaard (2020) - And it is an intriguing time for aging research, which is reflected in the manuscripts that we receive at Anthropology & Aging. Anthropology & Aging has for years published research that moves beyond this narrow depiction of what senior life entails. Keywords: aging; anthropology; mikkelsen
How We Talk About Aging During a Global Pandemic Matters: On Ageist Othering and Aging ‘Others’ Talking Back by Verbruggen, Christine; Howell, Britteny M.; Simmons, Kaylee (2020) - How We Talk About Aging During a Global Pandemic Matters: On Ageist Othering and Aging ‘Others’ Talking Back Christine Verbruggen KU Leuven, Belgium christine.verbruggen@kuleuven.be Britteny M. Howell University of Alaska Anchorage bmhowell2@alaska.edu Kaylee Simmons North Greenville University simmons4855@ngu.edu Introduction As gerontologists, anthropologists of aging, advocates, and older adults have over the last months demonstrated, the COVID-19 pandemic has seen a parallel viral spread of ageism and the ‘othering’ of ‘the elderly.’ The effects of a discourse of protection of a homogenized group of older adults have been widely discussed (e.g., Morrow-Howell and Gonzales 2020). Keywords: adults; age; ageism; aging; anthropology; care; covid-19; fourth; howell; online; ouderenraad; people; risk; simmons; verbruggen; vlaamse; vol; vulnerability
Between Care and Contract: Aging Muslim Immigrants, Self-appointed Helpers and Ambiguous Belonging in the Danish Welfare State by Sparre, Sara Lei; Rytter, Mikkel (2021) - Thelen and Alber argue for bringing the state back into the equation in discussions around family care, because “untangling this separation is fundamental to understanding contemporary processes of social organization, including boundary making that leads to diverse forms of marginalization” (2018, 1). Shirin does not think of her time with her mother as split between family care and contracted care work. Keywords: aging; anthropology; arrangement; care; care managers; danish; denmark; families; family; helpers; immigrant; managers; municipality; rytter; self; shirin; sparre; state; work
From the Editor by Danely, Jason (2012) - 119 Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2012: 33 (4) Jason Danely Editor-in-Chief From the Editor Jason Danely, Ph.D. Department of Anthropology Rhode Island College jdanely@ric.edu AAQ Volume 33 has represented a revitalized effort on the part of AAGE to create a high-quality venue for work of scholars and researche rs of aging in anthropology. Likewise, AAQ is grateful to all of the contributors for their excellent work, helping to make AAQ an important resource for scholars, students and researchers around the world The articles in this issue serve as an excellent example of the kind of work AAQ strives to showcase. Keywords: aaq; anthropology; care; work
Meaning Making Among Older People in the Bible Belt in The Netherlands by Bos, Pien; Cornielje, Sylwin; Laceulle, Hanne (2021) - The following study is based upon ethnographic fieldwork conducted among older people in a village1 in the Netherlands. This study set out to explore the lives of older people, many of whom have spent their entire lives in this village. Keywords: aging; anthropology; bos; church; community; connectedness; cornielje; doi; experiences; family; laceulle; life; living; meaning; online; people; village
Sleep as Homework and Engagement in Rehabilitation by Larsen, Trine Schifter; Holen, Mari (2021) - Building on the theoretical concept of ‘engagement’ developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (2005), we examine the patient‘s relation to sleep as part of recovery; we refer to this as 'sleep engagement.' The focus on sleep engagements is a strategy that, in keeping with Nettleton, Meadows, http://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ Larsen & Holen | 111 Anthropology & Aging Keywords: aging; anthropology; body; care; engagement; eva; health; henning; holen; home; institutional; larsen; life; new; patients; potential; practice; rehabilitation; relations; sleep; sten; surgery; way
Book review: Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan by Grace, Samantha L. (2020) - Writing reflexively from the position of a white queer femme, Brainer’s emphasis on feminized kinship roles and queer family dynamics shows just how important queer Taiwanese are to their families without shying away from their vulnerability. Samantha L. Grace Santa Clara University slgrace@email.arizona.edu Amy Brainer has produced a provocative and concise ethnography on queer kinship in Taiwan. Keywords: anthropology; brainer; queer; university
A Little to One Side: Caregiving, Spatial Seclusion, and Spiritual Border-Crossing in Frail Old Age among the Tuareg (Kel Tamajaq) by Rasmussen, Susan (2012) - As important caregivers of frail Tuareg elders, small children also often tend the fire during the cold, dry sandstorm season. Although there are some hints of “social death” in the spatial and caregiving arrangements for Tuareg frail elders, there are also counter-forces here: in the complementarity and parallels between cosmology and ritual surrounding babies, very young children, and “old/old” frail elders. Keywords: age; aging; anthropology; caregiving; children; elders; example; household; islamic; life; persons; rasmussen; seclusion; sidi; space; susan; tuareg; women
PORTFOLIO: "Ends of Life": An Interview with Sarah Lamb by Kavedzija, Iza; Lamb, Sarah (2020) - Ten years later when I conducted the research for Aging and the Indian Diaspora, old age homes still tended to entail stigma for both the elder and their family (Lamb 2009). But I was nonetheless struck by how even many older people with children were speaking positively of old age homes as sites of care, comfort, security, and even prestige. Keywords: age; aging; anthropology; india; issn; kavedžija; lamb; life; online; pandemic; people; time
Embodied Aging: Everyday body practices and Later Life Identities among the South Asian Indian Gujarati Diaspora in Canada by Devi, Anusmita; Hurd, Laura; Samanta, Tannistha (2021) - Older bodies are increasingly subjected to disciplining by various regimes of fitness and health (Slevin 2008; Slevin and Mowery 2012). Specifically, while most of the female participants visualized old age in terms of a loss of physical functionality, the male participants described agedness in terms of a loss of economic and social worth. Keywords: age; aging; anthropology; bodies; body; canada; care; changes; devi; diaspora; hurd; identity; india; life; new; online; participants; practices; samanta; study; vol; women
Education of values: Marketizing the aging population in urban China by Wang, Yifan (2021) - Like many eldercare companies, Gardenview formed partnerships with vocational schools and encouraged graduates in relevant majors to intern at the company’s facilities. Whether Mr. Liu is an opportunist or not, the fact that corporations ground their market activities on premises of ethical transformation merits a close examination of how business practices such as marketing and sales shape and are shaped by moral codes and social values (Zelizer 1979). Keywords: aging; anthropology; care; china; chinese; eldercare; filial; gardenview; grandma; industry; knowledge; marketing; new; online; population; press; sales; university; values; vol; wang
Weaving Flexible Aging-friendly Communities Across Generations While Living with COVID-19 by Suzuki, Nanami (2020) - I would like to think about aging-friendly communities, in terms of the well-being of older people being deeply connected to the well-being of all generations, and in terms of the possibility of fostering communication that responds to the multilayered and expansive nature of older adults’ interactions. As the coronavirus made its disturbing entrance into everyday life, one of the problems that came to the fore was the lack of access to people in older adult facilities and hospitals. Keywords: adults; age; aging; anthropology; care; communities; community; face; living; new; people; suzuki
It Spread Like a Wildfire: Analyzing Affect in the Narratives of Nursing Home Staff During a COVID-19 Outbreak. by Freidus, Andrea; Shenk, Dena (2020) - ‘Affect,’ according to these scholars, is distinct from emotion, as it is defined by sociality, and refers to the feelings, sentimentalities, and embodied experiences generated from the circulation of bodies with other objects or bodies in the public realm (Richard and Rudnyckyj 2009). Csordas (1990) and Lyon (1995) suggest that visceral, intimate encounters with the material world (including other bodies) is both constituted by and in turn constitutes culture that determines social location and the structuring of everyday lived experiences (Ramos-Zayas 2011). Introduction Chaos reigned as the Life Care Center Nursing Home in Kirkland, Washington, made frontline news in February 2020 when COVID-19 was discovered to have been circulating among residents, staff, and visitors. Keywords: affect; anger; anthropology; care; covid-19; experiences; residents; staff; unit
Aging, Care, and Isolation in the Time of COVID-19. by Manderson, Lenore; Levine, Susan (2020) - If the caregiver has children, cares for other older people or grandchildren, for instance – then someone else needs to care for them at the moments of clinic visits. Among older people, COVID-19 can both directly and indirectly increase their isolation, load onto existing health problems, and add to the risks of depression and anxiety. Keywords: africa; aging; anthropology; care; conditions; covid-19; health; households; isolation; levine; manderson; people; social; south; south africa
On Vulnerability, Resilience, and Age: Older Americans Reflect on the Pandemic by Lamb, Sarah (2020) - Vol 41 No 2 (2020) ISSN 2374-2267 (online) DOI 10.5195/aa.2020.317 http://anthro-age.pitt.edu 181 experiences many older people have accrued over long lives gives them a resilience, insight, and emotional protection that helps them traverse this challenging time. These fieldwork conversations have helped me see how an anthropology of aging in pandemic times needs to regard both the harsh realities of the immense suffering of many older people, and the diverse ways the positive human experiences of optimism, resilience, hope, empathy, strength, and creativity can come to matter across the life course. Keywords: age; aging; anthropology; covid-19; lamb; life; new; pandemic; people; resilience; time; zoom
Risky Business: How Older ‘At Risk’ People in Denmark Evaluated Their Situated Risk During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Clotworthy, Amy; Westendorp, Rudi GJ (2020) - The COVID-19 pandemic has presented us with a unique opportunity to examine how societies perceive urgent biological risk, and how they manage population groups who may be susceptible to such risks; e.g., older people. To prevent or reduce such risks, certain societal and personal protections often emphasise ‘the common good’ (Velasquez et al. 2018; Anderson 2011, 247), a concept that is prominent in Scandinavian welfare states that have historically focused on the community, universal rights and responsibilities, and the shared well-being of all citizens in order to overcome collective hardship. Keywords: age; aging; anthropology; april; clotworthy; covid-19; denmark; government; health; pandemic; people; risk; state
Taming and Timing Death During COVID-19: The Ordinary Passing of an Old Man in an Extraordinary Time by Lau, Sofie Rosenlund; Kristensen, Nanna Hauge; Oxlund, Bjarke (2020) - Interestingly, this speaks to Green’s argument that modern deaths are stretched out in time in ways that may not necessarily be conducive to better processes of grievance, since most deaths now relate to chronic disease, where social death and grievance kick in prior to biological death (2008, 188). The Ordinary Passing of an Old Man in an Extraordinary Time Sofie Rosenlund Lau University of Copenhagen sola@sund.ku.dk Nanna Hauge Kristensen nannahk@yahoo.dk Bjarke Oxlund University of Copenhagen bjarke.oxlund@anthro.ku.dk Photo from Viggo’s funeral. Keywords: ann; anthropology; covid-19; danish; death; dying; family; funeral; lau; life; march; time; viggo
“Who are you to teach us?” Elder Abuse in Kyrgyzstan by Mikkonen-Jeanneret, Eppu (2012) - Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2012: 33 (4) 152 PORTFOLIO “Who are you to teach us?” Elder Abuse in Kyrgyzstan Photographs by Malik Alymkulov HelpAge International The photos were exhibited on June 15, 2012 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan to mark UN World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. 153 Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2012: 33 (4) Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2012: 33 (4) 154 155 Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2012: 33 (4) Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2012: 33 (4) 156 About the Photos Eppu Mikkonen-Jeanneret, Social Anthropologist and Regional Director in Central Asia for HelpAge International There has been a rapid societal change in Kyrgyzstan during the post-Soviet era. Keywords: anthropology
INTRODUCTION. The Ends of Life: Time and Meaning in Later Years by Kavedzija, Iza (2020) - On flow and punctuation: Time, temporality and life course Time, as we experience it, is far from “like an ever rolling stream” as Isaac Watts described it—or, if like a stream, it is far more varied than the simile suggests, sometimes wide and placid and slow-moving, sometimes racing through narrow gorges, sometimes scattered with boulders. Lives can be structured, even organized into life stages, and the flow of time in life may be perceived as unfolding in chapters, in eras, or as punctuated by events (Bateson 2011, 39). Keywords: age; aging; anthropology; death; end; hope; life; press; time; university
AAGE Obituary for Madelyn (Micki) Iris, PhD by Berman, Rebecca; Perkinson, Margaret; Schrauf, Robert; Ziegemeier, Ellen (2020) - While at Northwestern, she developed a research and evaluation training program – entitled Aging Services Support for Education, Research, and Training (ASSERT) – for social service providers, and she worked with numerous social service agencies in the Chicago area to implement the program. For those of us who were blessed with the great good fortune of working with Micki, this estimable body of academic work and these many years of community service reflect her eminently collaborative style. Keywords: aging; anthropology; micki
INTRODUCTION: COVID19 and Aging Bodies – What Do We Mean When We Say That Older Adults Are Most ‘Affected’ by COVID-19? by Verbruggen, Christine (2020) - What Do We Mean When We Say That Older Adults Are Most ‘Affected’ by COVID-19? Vol 41 No 2 (2020) ISSN 2374-2267 (online) DOI 10.5195/aa.2020.325 http://anthro-age.pitt.edu 126 INTRODUCTION: COVID- 19 and Aging Bodies – What Do We Mean When We Say That Older Adults Are Most ‘Affected’ by COVID-19? Keywords: adults; aging; anthropology; care; covid-19; good; life; pandemic; verbruggen
The Serendipitous Life and Career of Dr. Jay Sokolovsky by Chrisley, Caleb; Timms, Bobby (2020) - Dr. Sokolovsky joined Dr. Cohn and his team of cultural geographers, psychologists, and sociologists. ISSN 2374-2267 (online) DOI 10.5195/aa.2020.327 http://anthro-age.pitt.edu populations, Dr. Sokolovsky eventually conceded and began working alongside Dr. Cohn in this new study. Keywords: aging; anthropology; research; sokolovsky
Planning for Old Age in Peru: Count on Kin or Court the State? by Vincent, Susan (2021) - In addition, some have work pensions, which have required increased planning after the state implemented changes in the 1990s. Around a third of Allpachiqueño elders receive P65, while most of the rest have work pensions or widow’s work pensions (half of what their husbands had received). Keywords: age; aging; allpachico; anthropology; children; community; income; issn; kin; life; online; p65; pensions; people; peru; recipients; state; vincent; vol; work
PORTFOLIO: Aging into Disability/Disability into Aging: An Interview with Sophie Sartain by Verbruggen, Christine; Sartain, Sophie (2021) - In the film, when Mimi’s difficulties in caring for Dona increase, my brother expresses frustration about the waitlists at community homes for people like my aunt Dona. (Dona to Mimi) Introduction Now, more than ever, it is likely to know a ‘Mimi and Dona.’ Keywords: aging; anthropology; care; doi; dona; family; film; life; mimi; online; sartain; sophie; verbruggen
Book Reviews by Briller, Sherylyn (2012) - Through the use of voice recognition software, Dr. Taylor shares his experiences, ranging from the limbo of the diagnosis process (which took over a year of testing), through the loss of his identity as an academic, and eventually, the loss of his status as an independent adult. Each section includes essays, wherein Dr. Taylor reflects on his experiences, thoughts, and emotional interactions with his caregivers and his environment. Keywords: aging; alzheimer; anthropology; book; disease; taylor; writing
Book Review: Age-Inclusive Public Space by Devlieger, Patrick; Dujardin, Marc (2021) - The book documents conversations with 19 other architects, geographers, psychologists, philosophers, and social scientists, each of them writing with a very clear perspective of using, designing, and transforming public space into age-inclusive space. Creating such user-specific spaces seems counterproductive to the idea of advocating and creating age-inclusive layouts of public space. Keywords: age; anthropology; book; design; inclusive; space
Recognizing Caregiving Fatigue in the Pandemic: Notes on Aging, Burden and Social Isolation in Emilia-Romagna, Italy by Diodati, Francesco (2021) - I also focus on the life story of one family caregiver to critique the idealized vision of family care that was reproduced during the pandemic. I argue that the recognition of aging and caregiving fatigue during the lockdown reflected pre-existing normative models and structural inequalities of family care rather than radically altering them. Keywords: adriana; age; aging; alzheimer; anthropology; café; care; covid-19; doi; family; home; life; online; pandemic; people
Introduction. Contending with the Hourglass: Time, Reproduction, and the Problematization of Ageing by Majumdar, Anindita (2021) - Engaging with complex ethnographic and quantitative data, the authors suggest that menopause as a decisive moment of biological reproductive decline is not always taken for granted. ARTs exist as markers of temporal inevitability in terms of reproductive decline and its subversion. Keywords: ageing; anthropology; clock; decline; life; press; reproduction; time; university; women
Technologies of Ascription: How Does a Dementia Diagnosis Acquire its Symbolic Power of Exclusion in Later Life? by Libert, Sébastien; Higgs, Paul (2022) - This double-edged nature of cognitive rehabilitation—of being both an obstacle and an enabler—represents an important challenge that cognitive rehabilitation therapists inevitably confront in their attempt to support people with dementia. To answer this question, we present an ethnography of the daily practices of clinicians and researchers in two memory clinics implementing cognitive rehabilitation for people with dementia in a southern European country. Keywords: ageing; anthropology; cognitive; decline; dementia; diagnosis; exclusion; health; higgs; identity; libert; life; memory; patient; people; power; rehabilitation
Modest Swimwear, Religiosity and Aging: Apparel and Physical Activity for Women Throughout the Life Course by Kabel, Allison M. (2022) - However, the lack of access to modest swimwear or modest athletic apparel complicates the pursuit of health for modest women. The review of these modesty blogs resulted in examples of (1) modest swimwear as empowering for religious women throughout the life course, (2) conflicting modesty narratives, and (3) modesty as a way to avoid shame and uphold middle-class values. Keywords: 2013; activity; aging; anthropology; apparel; bikini; blog; doi; dress; forums; modesty; muslim; online; sports; swimming; swimwear; water; women
Professional Women and Elder Care in Contemporary Japan: Anxiety and the Move Toward Technocare by Aronsson, Anne (2022) - US$112 m) ‘Project for the development and promotion of the introduction of robot care devices’ run by AIST In other words, these women and their charges seemed to perceive care robots as “cold,” “mechanical,” and generally inferior to humans. Keywords: aging; anthropology; anxiety; aronsson; care; devices; elder; family; home; human; japan; japanese; nursing; press; robots; social; university; women; work
Designing Products for Older People’s Social and Emotional Needs: A Case Study by White, P.J. (2022) - Much research has been conducted on the physical ergonomic needs in product design for older people, overlooking an understanding of the ‘softer’ functionality that domestic products offer. Author Following the analysis, themes and insights were accumulated for consideration in the future redesign of domestic products for older people. Keywords: aging; anthropology; cooking; design; doi; health; heating; home; participants; people; products; research; study; vol; white
Imagining Possibilities: A Conversation with Dr. Aaron T. Seaman, President of AAGE by Jespersen, Brooke (2021) - I took to Zoom in August 2021 to interview Dr. Seaman, the current president of AAGE. Dr. Seaman is the Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, with a secondary appointment in the College of Public Health’s Department of Community and Behavioral Health, at the University of Iowa. Keywords: aging; anthropology; seaman
Fiestas, Saints and Spirituality: Collective Rituals as Community Eldercare in Andalusia by Place, Chloë (2022) - These deeply venerated local Virgin Mary saint statues are celebrated with annual fiestas (celebrations). Poster of Virgin Mary statue in front of Pueblo’s landscape, on the bedroom wall of a care home. Keywords: abuelos; aging; anthropology; care; community; dementia; fiestas; home; neighbourhood; people; photograph; pueblo; saints; statues; virgin
PORTFOLIO: Way(s) We Remember: Mexican Kinships, Intersubjective Storytelling, and Thinking and Feeling Through Comics by González, José Sherwood (2022) - Art Spiegelman’s Maus series is a seminal and striking reference when it comes to graphic novels, family stories, and the post-memory of traumatic events. My great-grandparents used to tell many stories to their grandchildren who shared these stories long after Chucho and Manuela were gone. Keywords: aa.2022.386; aging; anthropology; aunt; chucho; comics; doi; family; figure; film; gonzález; http://anthro-age.pitt.edu/; mexican; mexico; online; portfolio; process; sherwood; stories; tezcatlipoca; vol; way
Finding the Familiar in Rural America: How a Rural Lifestyle Helps Older Karen Adapt to Life in the United States by Gilhooly, Daniel; Gilhooly, Mayuri (2023) - Mayuri Gilhooly, Committee: IRB committee, Institute: Rockhurst University, approval number: 2020-17 – “Health perceptions and practices of Karen refugee families in rural Georgia”. In this article, we discuss how the experiences of one community of resettled Karen refugees seem to offer a counter-narrative to the “vulnerability trope” (King et al. 2017) that often dominates portrayals of older resettled refugees. Keywords: acculturation; aging; anthropology; burma; community; elders; family; gilhooly; journal; karen; living; participants; people; refugee; research; resettlement; sandville; study; urban
“Estar Tranquilo”: Using a Life-course Approach to Explore Perceptions of Well-being among Older Adults in Curicó, Chile by Salazar-Norambuena, Carola (2024) - “Estar Tranquilo”: Using a Life-course Approach to Explore Perceptions of Well-being among Older Adults in Curicó, Chile Carola Salazar-Norambuena csalazar@ucsc.cl Observatorio de Estudios de la Sociedad (OES-UCSC) This study assesses perceptions of well-being between two groups of older adults in Curicó, Chile. Keywords: adults; age; aging; anthropology; care; children; chile; club; course; eleam; family; groups; health; life; living; members; norambuena; online; participants; research; residents; salazar; social; women
Reconstructing Social Networks and Connections in Indigenous Tribes: An Analysis of Countermeasures to COVID-19 among Rural Tribes in Taiwan by Liu, Li-Chuan (2022) - These stations integrate eldercare, long-term care, after-school care and child care, and try to strengthen the care service and support systems for indigenous peoples and ensure that indigenous elders receive appropriate services and daily care (Council of Indigenous Peoples 2020, 2021). Changes to routine daily activities and schedule A major function of the ICH stations is to offer activities that can help indigenous elders maintain their physical fitness. Keywords: adults; aging; anthropology; care; county; covid-19; elders; health; liu; pandemic; providers; stations; taitung; taiwan; tribal; tribes
Striving to Belong: Everyday Enactments of Belonging among Older Adults in Greenland by Schlütter, Mette Mørup; Jensen, Tenna (2023) - Acknowledgements First and foremost, thanks to Karen Zeeb, Lars Jensen, Christian and other older adults from Uummannaq and other parts of Greenland for sharing their stories with us. Striving to Belong: Everyday Enactments of Belonging among Older Adults in Greenland Mette Mørup Schlütter Tenna Jensen mms@ph.au.dk tenj@sdu.dk Aarhus University University of Southern Denmark Ilisimatusarfik – University of Greenland Ilisimatusarfik – University of Greenland Keywords: acts; adults; age; aging; anthropology; belonging; christian; community; family; greenland; home; husband; jensen; karen; lars; life; people; schlütter; university; uummannaq
Aging in Non-Human Primate Society: What Relevance for Social Gerontology? by Gilleard, Chris (2023) - However as non-human primate societies are becoming gradually confined to areas and environments established through human agency and human institutions, it is possible to speculate that non-human primate old age will become more common if less natural and as a result, perhaps more akin to social aging in human societies. As research has become more attuned “to the high level of behavioral flexibility that many species exhibit” (Strier 2018b, 5), it becomes clear that non-human primate social behavior reflects a level of complexity that was scarcely grasped even a couple of decades ago. Keywords: adult; age; aging; anthropology; apes; behavior; dominance; evidence; gilleard; groups; human; issn; journal; life; monkeys; online; primates; societies; society; species; status; studies; vol
Grandparenting and Retirement: Re-thinking Roles, Reciprocity, and Responsibility in Milan and Yaoundé by Walton, Shireen; Awondo, Patrick (2023) - Many institutions of social care and wellbeing are physically based in the NoLo neighbourhood, including Auser, a prominent nationwide NGO dedicated to ageing, and local NGOs that focus on social participation and support. As discussed, with many people currently facing social and economic precarity through casual work and living in temporary and shared accommodation, important questions remain about how social care and welfare will develop along socially inclusive lines. Keywords: age; aging; anthropology; awondo; care; children; family; grandparenting; grandparents; italy; life; milan; online; participants; people; research; retirement; walton; work; yaoundé
Ageing and the Transportal Home by Garvey, Pauline; Wang, Xinyuan (2023) - Such homes are often termed ‘under-occupied. However, as we have seen in the Chinese and Irish examples, the route this takes intersects with local ideas and experiences in highly specific ways – which means that transportal home differs in each field site. Keywords: anthropology; digital; dublin; family; garvey; home; life; new; online; people; place; research; shanghai; smartphone; space; transportal; wang
Digital Dependency as a Burden: Impact of Active Aging for Tech Adoption in Brazil and Chile by Duque, Marília; Otaegui, Alfonso (2023) - “Individual and Shared Digital Repertoires – Older Adults Managing Digital Services.” Due to digitalization trends worldwide, mastering digital skills becomes another responsibility for older adults to remain independent. Keywords: adults; age; aging; anthropology; brazil; chile; dependency; digital; duque; new; online; otaegui; participants; paulo; skills; smartphone; students; support; são; technology; use; whatsapp; workshops
Life Purpose in the Age of the Smartphone: Reflections from Comparative Anthropology by Abed Rabho, Laila; de Vries, Maya; Miller, Daniel (2023) - We then argue that, in some regions, such as Palestine, the idea of life purpose is entirely subsumed within religion. This is followed by several cases where social reproduction seems to dominate life purpose, often based on securing the success of future generations. Keywords: aging; anthropology; field; life; life purpose; miller; people; press; purpose; rabho; religion; vries
Commentary: Visual/Multimodal Anthropology of Aging, Care and the Life Course: Notes on an Emergent Field by Pieta, Barbara; Sokolovsky, Jay (2023) - Navigating the Ethics of Visual/Multimodal Aging Research In recent years, there have been attempts to facilitate debates about the ethical challenges related to the use of visual methods in anthropology and more broadly in visual research (e.g., Clark 2013; Liebenberg 2018; Pauwels 2006; Perry and Marion 2010; Wiles et al. 2012). Keywords: Visual anthropology; Multimodality; Multimedia; Multisensoriality; More-than-textual publishing; Ethics; Care; Images Anthropology & Aging, Vol 44, No 1 (2023), pp. Keywords: aa.2023.426; adults; aging; anthropologist; anthropology; care; course; doi; ethnographic; figure; http://anthro-age.pitt.edu; images; life; media; multimodal; new; online; pieta; press; project; research; sokolovsky; university; vol
It Takes Another Kind of Village: How Older Husbands in Rural Spanish Communities Experience Caregiving by Chirinos, Carlos (2023) - Institutional forms of social care, such as day centers, are limited due to the lack of professionals specializing in the degenerative diseases typical of ageing. Keywords: Husband caregiving; Community care; Belonging; Ageing; Rural communities; Spain Anthropology & Aging, Vol 44, No 3 (2023), pp. Keywords: ageing; anthropology; belonging; care; carers; chirinos; community; daily; environment; experiences; family; home; husbands; life; local; miguel; people; place; term; toni; village
Questions of (non)Disclosure among People Living with Alzheimer’s Disease in Denmark by Lind Glavind, Ida Marie (2023) - What followed his diagnosis was a horrific fear of becoming an apathetic, atomized individual, detached from social life. Common to various strategies is an aim to avoid the strong associations with dementia as social death. Keywords: alzheimer; anthropology; death; dementia; diagnosis; disclosure; disease; egon; family; friends; life; living; participants; people; person; research
President's Message by Jervis, Lori (2012) - These include: • New designs and accessibility options, including greater fluidity with the AAGE website • Diversification of submission categories to include new media, pedagogy, interviews and dialogues • Expansion of the editorial board to accomodate more and diverse submissions • More issues dedicated to special topics in aging and anthropology • Public, searchable online access to selected content through our website • Increased graphics content, especially photographs of AAGE members These changes will be gradually phased in over the next two years. AAGE met twice this fall as usual, at the American Anthropological Association Meeting in Montreal, Quebec on November 19th, as well as at the Gerontological Society of America Meeting in Boston on November 20th, 2011. Keywords: aage; anthropology
Realizing Possibilities: A Conversation with Akaninyene A. Otu by Maripuu, Tiina (2023) - In the early days of his career as a medical doctor and researcher, Dr. Otu worked directly with patients and conducted health research into infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, HIV, dengue virus, and malaria. Given that my own research in palliative care involves an interdisciplinary approach, I am familiar with many of these complications and appreciate medical professionals such as Dr. Otu whose work is guided by the possibilities in anthropology's interdisciplinary approach. Keywords: aging; anthropology; nigeria; otu; research
What does Aging Mean? Repertoires and Embodied Sensoria in Person-Making by Coe, Cati (2023) - Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. Yet, my research in Ghana (Coe 2005, 2013, 2021) causes me to question her assertion: “when old people talk about themselves, they express a sense of self that is ageless” (Kaufman 1986, 7). Keywords: aging; anthropology; coe; life; press; self; university
The Ageless Self: A Relic or The Reliquary? by Luborsky, Mark (2023) - This ideal of independence and autonomy minimizes interdependence in social life as exemplified in the emergent normativity of the nuclear household as self-sufficient (Segalen 1986). Older individuals who experience migration potentially have multiple selves, ones grounded in the places they have left and the places they arrive. Keywords: aging; anthropology; culture; debate; issn; life; luborsky; making; meaning; online; self; university; vol
Bringing Ageing to Life: A Comparative Study of Age Categories by Hawkins, Charlotte; Haapio-Kirk, Laura (2023) - Older people are targeted by the younger generations, who accuse them of monopolising the material and symbolic resources in a country where leadership roles tend to be held by older people and where the majority of the population is young. Successful ageing narratives often align with industrialised age categories, which assign certain activities of economic production to particular life stages (Honwana 2012, 12): i.e., education and childhood: a time of dependence; work and adulthood: a time of independence; and retirement and rest in old age: increasingly characterised as a time of interdependent independence (Kavedžija 2019), as evident in both the Japan and Uganda ethnographies discussed here. Keywords: age; ageing; anthropology; care; categories; course; doi; family; generation; haapio; hawkins; japan; kirk; life; new; online; participants; people; population; press; research; retirement; uganda; work
Introduction: Care as Critique and Debating The Ageless Self by Verbruggen, Christine (2023) - Unlike the American cultural context, she finds that the Ghanaian cultural context does provide the resources for the articulation of aging selves: older Ghanian adults actively perform aging through attending to and making explicit their aging bodies as http://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ https://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/anthro-age/article/view/482/615 Debate | Verbruggen | Anthropology & Aging Having herself focused on the exacerbation of the ageless self in the “successful aging” paradigm as a ”cultural obsession” (Lamb 2017), like Cati Coe, Lamb reminds that the American context does not provide a space for aging selves. Keywords: aging; anthropology; debate; kaufman; life; meaning; self
The Woman with the Dog: Relationships between Pet Robots and Humans in a Danish Nursing Home for People with Dementia by Felding, Simone Anna; Rosenberg, Lena; Johansson, Karin; Teupen, Sonja; Roes, Martina (2024) - We show how pet robots are characterized by their fluidity and can go from being mechanical robots to living animals in a matter of seconds during interactions with nursing home residents. The cat and dog robots have sensors activated by touch and light and are able to bark, imitate a heartbeat, purr and meow through nonvisible speakers. Keywords: anthropology; care; cat; danish; dementia; dog; felding; fieldwork; home; nursing; nursing home; people; pet; residents; robots; social; staff; technologies
Narratives of Personhood and Caregiving in Ontario Long-Term Care Homes During COVID-19 by Badone, Ellen (2024) - Of these family caregivers, 13% were providing care for relatives living in care facilities, in many cases upwards of ten hours weekly (Long-Term Care Staffing Advisory Group 2020, 15-16; Hunter, Ward, and Purveen 2023). In 2018, throughout Canada, 4.5 million people reported providing care to parents or spouses. Keywords: 2020; anthropology; care; caregiver; caregiving; covid-19; family; homes; lockdown; mother; ontario; personhood; residents; term; term care
Introduction: Comparative Insights from the ASSA Project by Miller, Daniel (2023) - If, however, we move up to a still higher analytical level we could find that in these field sites grandparenting is understood as contractual as opposed to other field sites where it used as an expression of freedom (e.g., Miller 2022). After that, it might be possible to situate other field sites between these two, and thereby strengthen the arguments about the consequences of religiosity. Keywords: ageing; anthropology; assa; comparison; field; london; miller; people; press; project; sites; smartphone
Encounters Between Kindness and Digitalization: Stories of Older People in Latvia by Pokšāns, Artūrs; Mileiko, Ilze (2025) - Date Field site Profile Pseudonym Length (min.) 1 May 18, 2022 Rural field site Representative of the municipality Inese 47 2 May 18, 2022 Rural field site Representative of older people NGO Sibilla 77 3 May 18, 2022 Rural field site Librarian Teika 36 4 June 6, 2022 Rural field site Social worker Ingrīda 47 5 June 6, 2022 Rural field site Provide digital support for older people Ingra 53 6 May 20, 2022 Urban field site Representative of the municipality Selva 57 7 May 20, 2022 Urban field site Representative of older people NGO Lita 63 8 May 24, 2022 Urban field site Representative of older people NGO Ilvija 68 9 July 8, 2022 Urban field site Social worker Adele 52 Appendix 6: Co-Researcher Interviews No. Field site Participants Gender Length (min.) 1 Rural field site Co-researcher: Estere Interviewee: Using participatory action research (PAR) with older people as co-researchers, we explore how challenges arising from the digitalization of services are encountered by older adults living alone in Latvia, through the conceptual lens of kindness. Keywords: aging; anthropology; digital; digitalization; field; field site; interviewee; kindness; latvia; online; participants; people; researcher; services; site; site co; state; support; woman
Rethinking Intergenerational Living as the Ideal Form of Senior Care: Life Course Research with Immigrant Families in Toronto by Carson, Alexa (2024) - These crises have unique implications for immigrant families, whose higher propensity to cohabitate multi-generationally is often associated with the provision of family senior care (Burr and Mutchler 1999; Kobayashi and Funk 2010) and has been suggested as a partial solution to both housing and senior care dilemmas (Mussett 2022). Lavoie, Guberman, and Brotman 2010; Van Hook and Glick 2007).Understanding socioeconomic constraints and cultural perceptions of family senior care among immigrants is essential for building equitable, effective social policies. Keywords: age; aging; anthropology; canada; care; caregivers; carson; children; course; doi; families; family; health; housing; immigrant; income; journal; life; living; migration; research; senior; support; toronto; vol; years
From the Editor-in-Chief by Ghosh, Manonita (2024) - We will honor the legacy of the journal and outstanding work done by outgoing editors Dr. Tannistha Samanta and Dr. Amy Clotworthy to enrich our knowledge and understanding of aging and the life course. These forms of work often do not align with traditional academic publishing formats. Keywords: aging; anthropology; editor
Book Reviews by Briller, Sherri (2012) - Long’s focus on ethnography gives clear examples of ways caregivers are sometimes “borrowed” from “non-normative categories of kin,” as well as the tension generated within kin networks as the burdens of caregiving are shared and negotiated among family (p. 140). In this way, Long chapter shows most clearly the importance of the old anthropological category of kinship, even as it underlines how the conceptual content of the family and the desires and affects of individuals that produce families exceeds this category. Keywords: aging; anthropology; book; families; family; section; stocking
Technologized Intimacies and Posthuman Kinship Across the Life Course by Panchadhyayi, Sayendri (2024) - Today, innovations in care technology are geared towards fuelling intimate-affective relations, and mitigating isolation, dependencies, and vulnerabilities. However, whereas theoretically technology has made care accessible to all with disregard of specific physical, social, and kinship situations, the development of care technologies has similarly established care as a scarce resource, the division of which exacerbates existing socio-economic inequalities. Keywords: aging; anthropology; care; fertility; human; kinship; posthuman; reproduction; robots; strathern; technologies; technology
Doing Futures-Anthropology Research in Visions of Aging Technology by Gomez-Hernandez, Miguel (2024) - AgeTech henceforth ─ and therefore follow Marilyn Strathern’s (1995) suggestion to consider the interplay between futures, creativity, and present choices, while also exploring the benefits of studying AgeTech futures themselves. This eventually led me to design a series of comic-scenarios portraying AgeTech futures. Keywords: agetech; aging; anthropology; futures; pink
Rethinking Successful Aging from the Perspective of an Aging Japanese Statue of Jizō with Replaceable Heads by Fujiwara, Kuniko (2012) - Older adults not only remain productive members of their communities, but they are energetic innovators, self-promoters, and keen business-people. Key Words: Age stereotypes, Age norms, Vitality, Benevolence, Politeness, Deference, Respect, Avoidance, Communication satisfaction, Communication enjoyment, Middle-Age, Older adult, Mongolia Charles W. Choi, Ph.D. Communication Arts Department George Fox University D.Sc Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2012: 33 (3) 75 C. Choi, H. Giles & C. Hajek Young Adults’ Perceptions of Intergenerational Communication to this line of research by investigating how young adults perceive interactions across the lifespan, with middle- aged and older adults. Keywords: adults; age; aging; anthropology; avoidance; bridal; communication; community; data; elderly; family; giles; group; human; intergenerational; japan; japanese; jizō; kamikatsu; leaves; life; middle; mongolia; new; noren; norms; people; ph.d; quarterly; research; respect; satisfaction; self; sense; society; statue; stereotypes; target; temple; town; university; women; work; worshippers
Slowing Down Medicine: The Plural Worlds of Hospice Care by Lerer, Lilly (2015) - In this model, piles of dirty dishes and laundry sit beside pulmonary embolisms and hip fractures; both sets are acknowledged as injuries to the lifeworlds of hospice patients. Over time, I became familiar with the objects and vocabulary that fill the daily lives of hospice patients. Keywords: aa.2015.64; aging; anthropology; cancer; care; doi; home; hospice; illness; lerer; life; medical; mrs; nurse; online; patient; vol; world
Member/Group News by Perkinson, Margaret (2010) - To share vicariously in Maria’s award ceremony, see the YouTube clip: http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=Pg0vrEdD53w Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2010: 31 (1-2) 7 AAGE Member News Introducing President-Elect of AAGE, Dr. Lori L. Jervis (Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1998). Recent Publications: Jervis, L. L. (2001). Keywords: aging; anthropology; l. l.
Member/Group News by Perkinson, Margaret (2010) - Her past and current research interests include rural older women, direct care workers, communicating with and caring for people with dementia, and use of narrative approaches and photography. AAGE SPONSORED STUDENT AWARDS Keywords: aage; aging; anthropology; china; research
AAGE 2010 Guide to the Meetings by Sokolovsky, Jay (2010) - INTEREST GROUP EVENT: AAA Aging and Life Course Interest Group Meeting and Interlocutor Event, Friday, 12:15-1:30 (Salon 801), 8th floor, Sheraton. In addition, several AAA Aging and the Life Course Interest Group and AAGE members are giving papers and posters at this meeting. Keywords: a.m.; aage; aging; anthropology; community; countries; elders; group; health; kenya; life; new; p.m.; penny; research
Postmenopausal Health and Disease from the Perspective of Evolutionary Medicine by Froehle, Andrew W. (2013) - Anthropometric work among the Hadza demonstrates that average body fat percentage remains constant at about 19% in women from age 18-75 (Sherry and Marlowe 2007), in stark contrast to the increase in body fat with age in postmenopausal women from industrialized societies (Heymsfield et al. 1994). The medical deficiency disease model attributes elevated disease prevalence to the substantial and permanent reduction in circulating levels of the reproductive steroid hormone 17β-estradiol (henceforth referred to as simply estrogen) that occurs within the four years surrounding the final menstrual period (Randolph et al. 2011; Sowers et al. 2008). Keywords: age; aging; anthropology; disease; effects; estrogen; et al; evolution; factors; froehle; health; human; journal; levels; life; lifespan; menopause; metabolic; mortality; postmenopausal; reproductive; risk; women; years
Tokens of trauma: The ageing experience of Shoah survivors in a Jewish support centre. by Kasstan, Ben (2015) - how Jewish members of non-residential day centers reconcile past traumas with the present day. This was raised during a pair-interview which alluded to the experience of two women: I never felt that I had gone through anything they [camp survivors] had gone through. Keywords: aging; anthropology; bitachon; bread; center; doi; experience; jewish; kasstan; members; online; people; survivors; tokens; trauma; vol
Frail, Independent, involved? Care and the Category of the Elderly in Japan by Kavedzija, Iza (2015) - Their role as carers has them balancing the formality of interacting with “elderly people” and the familiar neighborly relations of spending time with “grannies.” Building on this recent work within the emerging anthropology of care, this article outlines the construction of the category of the elderly in Japan in the context of community care.1 While a number of scholars of Japan have made valuable contributions to the study of care, especially the care of older people, much of the research on older people has focused on the Kavedžija | Frail, Independent, Involved? Keywords: aa.2015.83; age; aging; anthropology; care; community; doi; issn; japan; need; neighborhood; online; people; san; services; support; vol; welfare
Personhood-Based Dementia Care: Using the Familial Caregiver as a Bridging Model for Professional Caregivers by Fetterolf, Michael Gabriel (2015) - Nearly 60% of nursing home caregivers in a study stated that they are understaffed, have too much to do at one time, and have too little time to spend with residents (Cocco, et al. 2003:82). By judging the actions of dementia residents as “aimless”, nursing home caregivers are denying the potential of extracting meaning from residents’ actions. Keywords: aging; alzheimer; anthropology; care; caregivers; caregiving; dementia; frank; healing; home; interaction; leroy; maria; nursing; personhood; residents; time
Back in the Saddle Again: Ethics, Visibility, and Aging on Screen by Vitols, Maruta Z.; Lynch, Caitrin (2015) - (Lynch 2012:66) Esther and many other older adults in the U.S. struggle to make sense of their changed social roles and personal experiences and desires in the context of widespread cultural assumptions that characterize youth as a time of activity and vitality and old age as a time of decline, decrepitude, and death. Abstract This paper engages with filmic portrayals of older adults in the U.S. in order to ask questions about the impacts of mass media on reproducing, critiquing, or interrogating mainstream values and assumptions about aging. Keywords: adults; age; aging; anthropology; dir; film; lynch; media; saddle; society; time; u.s
Connecting the anthropology of aging and occupational therapy/Occupational science: Interdisciplinary perspectives on patterns and meanings of daily occupation by Perkinson, Margaret A; Briller, Sherylyn (2015) - The central premise of the “Aging and Activity: Patterns and Meanings of Daily Occupation” session was as follows: “The concept of daily occupation is the focus of the practice profession of occupational therapy and its basic discipline of occupational science. Past Society for Medical Anthropology President Marcia Inhorn (2007) identified the intersection between anthropology and occupational therapy/occupational science (the scientific discipline that informs the application or practice of occupational therapy) as one of the ten most promising areas for future research, and that intersection represents one of the primary foci for the 2009 SMA conference, “Medical Anthropology at the Intersection: Celebrating 50 Years of Interdisciplinarity.” Keywords: aging; anthropology; occupational; science; therapy
An Anthropological Approach to an Occupational Intervention: The Exercise and Dementia Project by Perkinson, Margaret A. (2015) - Based on a multi-dimensional set of baseline assessments, an interdisciplinary team (occupational therapist, physical therapist, and medical anthropologist) developed and evaluated individualized physical activity programs for 30 persons with mild dementia and their primary family caregivers. Family exercise supervisors received instructions on the performance and safe supervision of the exercise program and exercised with their relatives three times a week for three months. Keywords: anthropology; dementia; exercise; occupational
Neglect of Older People in Humanitarian Response by Karunakara, Unni (2015) - An earlier version of this paper titled “Humanitarian assistance for older people: does it matter?” This focus on the very young is perhaps a natural reflex, yet we mustn't allow it to blind us to the needs of older people. Keywords: age; aging; anthropology; assistance; international; karunakara; needs; neglect; online; people; population; response
Review: The Upside of Aging: How Long Life is Changing the World of Health, Work, Innovation, Policy and Purpose by Grendell, Ruth (2015) - Global society leaders need to rethink the value of longevity and successful aging; as well as, prioritizing initiatives for the future of aging societies, the changing population demographics, and economic issues in health and illness. Challenges faced by global aging societies include identifying measures to meet the demographic changes of intergenerational communities, and multi-cultural populations. Keywords: aging; anthropology; health
Conceptual Frameworks and Practical Applications to Connect Generations in the Technoscape by Kaplan, Matthew; Sánchez, Mariano; Bradley, Leah (2015) - It is our hope that this preliminary effort to scan and contextualize the terrain of intergenerational programs that heavily utilize new technologies will be useful in generating additional interest, research and program innovation in this arena. To identify intergenerational technology programs to be included in the survey, project team members employed a threefold strategy during the first half of 2013: outreach through intergenerational list-servs (managed by local, national, and international membership organizations) and personal contact with intergenerational practitioners, a structured web search (via Google Search), and literature review (via Google Scholar, SCOPUS, and Web of Knowledge) for the period January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2012. Keywords: aging; anthropology; applications; bradley; communication; doi; frameworks; generations; kaplan; life; new; online; people; programs; relationships; survey; sánchez; technology; technoscape; use; vol

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Towards a Gerontoludic Manifesto by De Schutter, Bob; Vanden Abeele, Vero (2015) - Older adults are a large, currently still largely untapped market for innovative game research and development. The first theme refers to digital games framed as a way for older adults to improve certain skills. Keywords: adults; age; aging; decline; digital; games; gerontoludic; life; manifesto; play; players; playing; schutter
Population Aging as the Social Body in Representation and Real Life by Crampton, Alexandra (2013) - The dominant construct of old age in population aging discourse is one of individual loss and decline over Abstract This article uses three levels of body analysis as presented by Nancy Scheper- Hughes and Margaret Lock to compare old age as a construct in population aging discourse with research on lived experience of people aging in the United States and Ghana. The construction of old age within this discourse is then compared with ethnographic research that suggests this construct leaves out much of the lived experience familiar to anthropologists of aging. Keywords: adults; age; aging; bodies; body; construct; crampton; ghana; intervention; life; new; people; policy; population; research; social; university
The Uncertain Bodies and Spaces of Aging in Place by Penney, Lauren (2013) - Below, I examine the dynamic nature of aging place within the context of home health care. Based on an in depth ethnography, it examines the resources and work that go into aging in place amid uncertainty, and highlights how processes related to the integration of person and place are negotiated and contested between older adults, family members, and home health nurses. Keywords: aging; bodies; care; health; home; informants; life; new; nurses; patients; people; place; risk; sense; social; spaces
“Aging in Displacement: Urban Revitalization and Puerto Rican Elderhood in Chicago” by Rúa, Mérida M. (2023) - If, as this article suggests, displacement has characterized Chicago Puerto Ricans’ migration into elderhood, has this group remained attached and engaged in community life? Stories of Displacement and Settlement in Puerto Rican Chicago” Displacement, as the epigraph indicates, has marked the individual and collective lives of Puerto Ricans in Chicago, especially those who migrated in the 1950s and 1960s. Keywords: adults; aging; chicago; city; community; development; displacement; housing; life; logan; neighborhood; new; online; place; press; puerto; residents; rican; rúa; square; university; urban; york
Book Review: Do Not Live Without An Elder by Jayaraman, Nirmala (2023) - I would also argue that preserving stories, oral histories, and ethnographic interviews of elders within one’s culture is important for this very same reason. Do Not Live Without An Elder: The Subsistence Way of Life in Southwest Alaska (Bilingual Edition). Keywords: alaska; life; review
Activist Pensioners, a Contradiction in Terms? Argentina’s Jubilados by DuBois, Lindsay (2013) - The surprising thing is that he was not talking about a group of twenty-somethings standing on the street corner collecting signatures, but of older people, in their sixties, seventies and eighties. Notwithstanding the particularities of the Argentine case, examining the tensions entailed in the idea of activist pensioners illuminates not only the situation of activists but also the place of pensioners and older people more generally in similar societies. Keywords: activist; age; aging; aires; argentina; buenos; dubois; group; history; jubilados; life; movement; pensioners; people; social; state; terms
Préparer la Retraite: New Age-Inscriptions in West African Middle Classes by Alber, Erdmute (2018) - Mberu et al. (2013, 277) have discussed the hardship of Kenyan urban migrants returning to their rural homes in old age, despite older people’s expressed desire to return. Few people in Benin would easily call old age retirement, as is the case in Euro-American societies. Keywords: age; alber; benin; children; class; cotonou; course; households; life; living; middle; new; parakou; parents; people; retirement; work
Retiring Home? House Construction, Age Inscriptions, and the Building of Belonging among Mexican Migrants and their Families in Chicago and Rural Mexico by Pauli, Julia; Bedorf, Franziska (2018) - Based on long-term and multi-local ethnographic fieldwork in rural Mexico and urban Chicago since the 1990s, we analyze how remittance houses are tied and untied with their owners’ life courses in the later stages of life. Additionally, we want to add ‘kin-place’ as the spatial ordering of family transitions, i.e., specific places like remittance houses that family members are expected to build in order to fulfil their responsibilities. Keywords: age; aging; bedorf; care; chicago; family; felipe; houses; kin; life; mexican; mexico; migrants; migration; new; pauli; people; remittance
DIY Aging: Retirement Migration as a New Age-Script by Gambold, Liesl L. (2023) - Among international retirement migrants, many cited economic instability and fear as a primary impetus for their international relocation. Building on their description of the formulation of age-scripts, this article will demonstrate the way that age-scripts among international retirement migrants signal a ‘discursive organizing’ of the ‘unease’ they face in their retirement. Keywords: age; aging; diy; gambold; health; home; individual; international; life; mexico; migrants; new; online; retirees; retirement; vol
Idleness: Energizing the Danish Welfare State by Mikkelsen, Henrik Hvenegaard (2019) - Retirees have previously been expected to withdraw socially, however, in the last twenty years we have seen an increase in the state’s attempts to activate and rehabilitate elderly citizens. It was evident, however, that certain elderly citizens were unwilling to be “activated.” Keywords: aging; bartleby; citizens; danish; energy; health; john; life; men; passivity; social; state; welfare
Aging in Place: Changing Socio-ecology and the Power of Kinship on Smith Island, Maryland by Kopelent Rehak, Jana (2019) - Storytelling relates to Smith Island life in the broadest sense; stories are related to serious tasks, such as weather, work, social life, faith or death, but are used as well as to entertain. Paula Johnson (1992), in her book about Smith Island work boats, emphasized how the workboats were personalized by watermen and families. Keywords: aging; boat; boy; community; course; eddie; island; islanders; knowledge; life; place; smith; smith island; water; work
The “Good Life”: Third Age, Brand Modi and the cultural demise of old age in urban India by Samanta, Tannistha (2018) - tannistha@iitgn.ac.in Abstract In this piece, I outline the possibility of understanding old age through the lens of cultural gerontology highlighting the intersecting logics of age with consumption, leisure and identity. _CommentaryTannistha[4] The “Good Life”: Third Age, Brand Modi and the cultural demise of old age in urban India Tannistha Samanta, PhD Department of Humanities & Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, Keywords: age; aging; class; consumer; consumption; gilleard; india; life; modi; new; samanta; self; social
Going Beyond the Dwelling Challenging the Meaning of Home at the End of Life by Visser, Renske C. (2019) - Since home deaths are equated with ‘good deaths’, and hospital deaths with ‘bad deaths’ this may make it is difficult for people to voice alternative opinions concerning their desired place of death (Pollock 2015). Dying at home could potentially reduce the costs of care, as home deaths are significantly cheaper compared to hospital deaths (Higginson et al. 2013). Keywords: death; dying; end; home; life; people; place
Narrating Future Selves: Perspectives on Ageing from a Scottish Cohort Born in 1936 by Elliott, Jane; Carpentieri, JD (2020) - In order to demonstrate competence in later life and present as a ‘good old person,’ individuals in our study tended to talk in rational, un-emotional terms about the plans they had made for their death but were not comfortable discussing the losses they might experience in the next few years. As Higgs and Gilleard (2014) have argued, there is a sense in which the frailty which was historically associated with later life has been banished to the very end of life - a ‘Fourth age’ of decline and dependency, which should be postponed for as long as possible. Keywords: ageing; capability; carpentieri; david; eleanor; elliott; future; health; high; individuals; interview; life; low; medium; narrative; self; study
Book Review: Intimacy and Ageing: New Relationships in Later Life by Gangopadhyay, Jagriti (2020) - The book is a part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, and traces notions of intimacy among older adults against the backdrop of modernity. Chapter 2 argues that it is in the emergence of the Third Age, based on consumer culture – which nurtures self-development and flexibility in relationships among older adults – and supported by digital technologies – which provide information and access to alternate lifestyles – that the rise of later- life intimacy can be understood. Keywords: book; intimacy; life
Book Review: Creativity in Later Life: Beyond Late Style by Southam, Theresa (2020) - They don’t settle for any answer in particular, but rather demonstrate a broad spectrum of forms and meanings “late life creativity” can take. It would be interesting to see research on late life creativity that has been co-created by gerontologists and the arts and humanities, conducted within community, and in intergenerational contexts. Keywords: arts; creativity; humanities; life
Thinking About ‘Completed Life’ Euthanasia in the Netherlands from the Generative Perspective: A Reflexive Exploration by van der Geest, Sjaak; Satalkar, Priya (2021) - Medical professionals were mostly critical and saw the petitioners’ call for completed life euthanasia as an intrusion into their professional tasks and responsibilities. Legal experts concluded that extending the present euthanasia legislation to include completed life euthanasia would require drastic changes to the law. Keywords: aging; death; die; dutch; end; euthanasia; geest; generation; generativity; life; people; satalkar; van
Book Review: Cross-cultural Perspective on Personhood and the Life Course by Cattell, Maria G. (2020) - Maria G. Cattell The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago mgcattell@aol.com When Cathrine Degnen’s research on older persons in northern England led her to wonder if personhood is more secure at certain points in the life course than at others, she became “entirely captivated by the question of personhood” (1). Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Personhood and the Life Course. Keywords: course; degnen; life; personhood
Book Review: Negotiating Ageing: Cultural Adaptation to the Prospect of a Long Life by Tripathi, Ashwin (2020) - Biggs asks these questions at the intersection of premature answers developed in contemporary policies related to older adults in an expanding anti-aging industry, in older adults market segments, and in critical approaches to family relationships. This increased longevity, induced by medical advancements and improved health care, has in itself caused structural shifts: growing commodification of bodies, increased social inequality among older adults as well as many other socio-cultural, biological, and ideological changes. Keywords: adults; aging; book; life
Surgery-for-Life: Aging, Sexual Fitness and Self-Management in Brazil by Edmonds, Alexander (2014) - Unlike fully public hospitals where all medical services are free, it offers free reconstructive surgery, but charges a small fee to cosmetic surgery patients to cover costs of medical materials and anesthesia (surgeons receive no payment). In this article I draw on ethnographic fieldwork on plastic surgery to explore tensions in ideals and norms of aging in Brazil. Keywords: age; aging; body; brazil; course; edmonds; health; life; life course; means; middle; new; patients; plastic; plástica; self; surgeons; surgery; women
Book Review: Aging in Everyday Life: Materiality and Embodiments by Southam, Theresa (2020) - The chapters of Ageing in Everyday Life are highly readable, with authors bringing their research and academic knowledge to a potentially wide ranging audience, including older adults themselves. For Katz, older adults are in relationship with things Keywords: adults; aging; book; life
Of Public Spaces and Later-life Amity in Urban India: Gerontological Musings in Pandemic Times by Samanta, Tannistha (2020) - This form of social practice, as Chakrabarty argues, is predominantly male and youthful; a marker of urban upper-caste, middle class identity. This unremarked practice (of walking and informal social talk) holds rich and often neglected modern oral histories of everyday social life that an instrumental focus on chronological age will lose out on. Keywords: adda; age; aging; bourdieu; class; habitus; life; pandemic; public; spaces
“The Body Becomes Closed and Squeezed up in a Narrow Frame”: Loneliness and Fears of Isolation in the Lives of Older People in Rural Areas in Karelia During COVID-19. by Galkin, Konstantin (2020) - The ethnographic material on older bodies in Karelia presented in this article, clearly shows how the changes in habitual practices required by the COVID- 19 pandemic, result in a compressed body: a body locked-up in space, time, and the self. Conclusion These ethnographic cases consider the experiencing older body in Karelia, as it hampers and suffers to transition from one mode of isolation and impairment to another. Keywords: adults; aging; body; care; covid-19; isolation; life; living; marina; pandemic; people; sergey; village
Profiles of Ethiopian centenarians: A qualitative inquiry by Chane, Samson; Adamek, Margaret E. (2021) - Centenarians have unique health risks, needs, values, and life goals (Pin and Spini 2016) and yet, the factors contributing to longevity of centenarians in Global South nations have not been delineated (Giraldo 2009; Serra et al. 2011). Abstract As global aging advances, the number of centenarians (people aged 100 and over) worldwide is greatly increasing. Keywords: adamek; age; aging; census; centenarians; children; church; education; ethiopia; family; global; life; population; south; study; years
Book Review: Interrogating the Neoliberal Life Cycle: The Limits of Success by Gangopadhyay, Jagriti (2021) - In Chapter 3, Patrick Alexander draws from ethnographic research conducted in a public high school in the Bronx, New York City, to explore how the articulation of aspirations for adult life among boys at the end of secondary schooling is permeated with ideals of masculinity. The third section (Part III) is dedicated to certain determinants (gender and age) that risk correlating negatively with working lives and concomitant successes under the flag of neoliberalism. Keywords: book; chapter; life; review
Book Review: Social Division and Later Life: Difference, Diversity and Inequality by Tripathi, Ashwin (2021) - Ashwin Tripathi Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar ashwin.tripathi@iitgn.ac.in In Social Division and Later Life: Differences, Diversity and Inequality, Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs emphasize the increasing heterogeneity of a growing group of older adults, here looking through the lens of social divisions to interrogate the diversity of later lives. Additionally, the body, which has previously been largely ignored in social scientific work on aging, with health and frailness viewed as a natural outcome of social divisions (Gilleard and Higgs 2017), is now studied as both the site and the source of these divisions (v). Keywords: aging; gilleard; higgs; life
Aging, Gender and Sexuality in Brazilian Society by Debert, Guita Grin (2014) - Old age seems to give rise to a new phase in the course of one’s sex life; this assumption can be verified not only in the discursive reiteration of the prolongation of sexuality, but also in the description of the sexual problems faced by men and women in old age – as well as in the specific technologies produced as part of the solution. Older women are stimulated by these professionals to delink the practice of sex from their partner’s desires, and instead to focus on Abstract Drawing on the interplay between gender, aging, and sexuality, the aim of this article is twofold: (1) to show how Brazilian gerontologists treat gender differences and sexual activity in old age; (2) to analyze the ways discourses regarding the aging body and sexuality are perceived and evaluated by older women and men . Keywords: age; aging; body; brazilian; gender; gerontologists; life; love; male; new; sex; sexuality; women
Wilmoth, Janet & Ferraro, Kenneth, Eds. Gerontology Perspectives and Issues (4th ed.) by Grendell, Ruth N. (2014) - “The primary goal of life course research is to understand long-term patterns of stability and change as they unfold in social and historical contexts” The decrease in social partners can result in a variety of emotional responses to life events, and can determine a person’s sense of well-being. Keywords: age; aging; disease; life
Book Review: Making Meaningful Lives: Tales from an Aging Japan by Southam, Theresa (2022) - It is an intermixing of rich life stories, observations of the salons, and artful critiques of life story approaches and narrative identity. Making Meaningful Lives: Tales from an Aging Japan. Keywords: aging; care; kavedžija; life; lives
New Publications by Cattell, Maria (2012) - Honolulu: U Hawaii P. Khadr, Z. 2011 Differences in levels of social integration among older women and men in Egypt. McLaughlin, D., J. Adams, D. Vagenas, A. Dobson 2011 Factors which enhance or inhibit social support: A mixed- methods analysis of social networks in older women [Australia]. Keywords: a&s; age; aging; gerontology; health; life; press
2009 American Anthropological Association Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Session on Culture, Health and Aging in Native North American Communities by Warry, Wayne (2012) - There has been limited work in this area, and a clear need for it identified as the cohort of aging Aboriginal people in Canada grows. So today I am still involved in many things that are about sharing my life experiences, about helping our youth stay in school, about helping our young people parent well and drawing on the old ways, and about dealing with the hurt that is still there in the high suicide rates among our youth. ” Frameworks for understanding aging experiences for older Aboriginal people: Keywords: aboriginal; aging; american; care; communities; community; culture; dementia; elders; health; life; people; research; respect
Book Review: Sex and Diversity in Later Life: Critical Perspectives by Singh , Monika (2023) - Monika Singh Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi monikasi@iiitd.ac.in In Sex and Diversity in Later Life: Critical Perspectives, Trish Hafford-Letchfield, Paul Simpson, and Paul Reynolds bring together a wide range of critical issues concerning stereotypes on sexuality and aging as they play out in diverse aspects of later life. Bisexuality in Later Life,” Christopher Wells gives a systematic literature review to recognize complexities of bisexuality and sexual practices in later life, invoking the Foucauldian idea of ‘heterotopia’ and examines the causes of socio-cultural and institutionalised inclusion and exclusion of older bisexual intimacies from older lesbian and gay communities. Keywords: aging; chapter; life; sexuality
Book Review: Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene by Pinheiro, João Pedro Martinez (2023) - Her point is that posthumanist life writers should responsibly relate not only to those macroscopic and dry parts of the Earth wherein humans roam, but also to the small and underwater worlds that necessitate attention and care just as much. Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene. Keywords: anthropocene; book; human; life; posthumanist; review; writing
Who Wants to Have an Aged Self If to Age Is So Bad? Ageless and Aged Selves as Cultural Constructs by Lamb, Sarah (2023) - The concept encapsulates both the widespread U.S. desire for continuity, permanence, and stability of self as well as commonplace, deep fears about change, old age, and decline. I agree in part with Sharon Kaufman’s insightful finding, based on her ethnographic research in the late 1970s, that many older Americans identify as having an “ageless self” that operates as a positive source of meaning in older age. Keywords: ageless; aging; kaufman; life; self
Commentary: Aging Places: A Review Essay by McGovern, Justine (2024) - Ultimately, the text calls for further research about the experience of place from the perspective of persons living with dementia, whose voices continue to be notably absent from dementia scholarship. Organized around the theme of “placing dementia,” by which the authors mean to emplace and embody the lived experience of dementia, Richard Ward, Andrew Clark, and Lyn Phillipson’s Dementia and Place (2021) consists of a collection of essays by leading global scholars whose careers have notably pushed the boundaries in dementia studies and practice. Keywords: aging; dementia; experiences; home; life; living; persons; place; research
Book Review: Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland: When Life Becomes Craft by Patel , Shivangi (2023) - Examples of how technology and smartphones influence the health of older people are googling information regarding symptoms or treatment; using Whatsapp for organizing care for elderly parents; specialist apps such as Fitbit or step-counters; health insurance apps; wayfinding apps for locating clinics or health sites; and YouTube to look up exercises. In their analysis, they depart from the popular understanding that smartphones are a technology designed for the younger population but used by older adults to feel younger. Keywords: aging; authors; life; smartphones
The Collateral Damage of Policy Reform: Low-Income Women Retirees, State Feminism, and the Pension System in Sweden by Gustafsson, Anna (2024) - Consequently, today’s older women have become “collateral damage” (Bauman 2011) of securing a new form of pension system, and seemingly also neglected in the state’s promise of ensuring gender equality. The Swedish Pension System Policies, such as pension systems, are key organizing principles in society and important in creating and reproducing social and ideological values (Nyqvist 2011). Keywords: children; equality; gender; income; labour; life; pension; pension system; rut; social; state; sweden; swedish; system; time; women; work
Ruminations on Studying Late Life in Japan by Long, Susan Orpett (2012) - Of course until assigned to do so, they have not read studies of Japanese old people in nursing homes (Bethel 1992, Thang 2001, Wu 2004) or retirement communities (Kinoshita and Keifer 1992), or of strategies people adopt to find security in their coming old age (Hashimoto 1996, Jenike 2003, 2004, Lebra 1984, Traphagan 2000) or be remembered after death (Danely 2012, Kawano 2010, Suzuki 2000, Tsuji 2006). Social class may help shape the ways that Japanese old people see the world, but socioeconomic status does not prohibit their access to good, high-tech medical care or to nursing homes, The working class families who constituted the majority of our participants in the elder care study are just as likely to get treatment for medical problems as the wealthy. Keywords: aging; care; family; japan; japanese; life; long; people; press; study; university
Film Review: She Waves At Me by Wallace, Yvonne (2024) - The film doesn’t follow a narrative arc but is instead made up of fragments of daily life and conversations between Daniels and her three participants, who viewers rarely, if ever see. Daniels invites viewers to observe daily life at the Barbican with the same attention by which John wonders at the small life of a beetle. Keywords: aging; daniels; film; life
Book Review: Collaborative Happiness: Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities by Ionescu, Alin Constantin (2024) - The book hence offers a limited account of well-being in old age in community life. However, people living in intentional communities do not detach themselves from the societies to which they belong but build on existing material and social infrastructures to create something new, namely ways of dwelling and living collectively. Keywords: book; communities; kingfisher; life
Book Review: Migration, Diversity and Inequality in Later Life: Ageing at a Crossroad by Ram, Harchand (2024) - It provides valuable analytical insights as well as practical policy recommendations to improve the lives of aging migrants. Many aging migrants follow the motto to stop is to die, to work is to live (112), reflecting the desire to stay engaged and physically active even when aging. Keywords: aging; life; migrants; migration
Transitions and Time: Dissonance between Social and Political Aging in South Korea by Cho, Won Jee; Lewis, Denise (2012) - They chronologically, physically, and socially experienced the transition to old age at different times determined through “Hwan-Gap” (at age 60) and through current social policies that define entry into elderhood (at age 65). Knowledge about young-old persons’ dissonance between their identities and sociopolitical views of entry into elderhood is important for understanding their experiences during the five-year gap between sociocultural entry into old age at age 60 and entry into the nationally defined elderhood at age 65. Keywords: age; aging; changes; elderhood; experiences; gap; health; hwan; korea; life; society; south; time; transition; young
Book Review: A Poetic Language of Ageing by Erspamer, Alyssa (2025) - They all underline how aging for older adults does not need be a shameful and lonely stage of life. Following Orr, the contributing authors attest that poetry also goes beyond being a survival tactic for older adults. Keywords: aging; chapter; dementia; life; poetry
Book Review: Well-being over the Life Course: Incorporating Human-animal Interactions by Zaluchu, Fotarisman; Adriansyah, Vicky Rifai (2025) - It becomes evident in this chapter, that while existing evidence is scientifically robust, HAI research demands even more precise data to advance understanding. Despite this, the book provides a strong empirical and theoretical foundation for advancing HAI studies in diverse cultural and socioeconomic landscapes. Keywords: chapter; hai; human; life
Creating a Community of Resilience: New Meanings of Technologies for Greater Well-Being in a Depopulated Town by Suzuki, Nanami (2012) - Since the beginning of 1990s, this situation has been such a concern that areas speCiAl internAtionAl submission on Aging And mAteriAlity in JApAn Creating a Community of Resilience: New Meanings of Technologies for Greater Well-Being in a Depopulated Town Nanami Suzuki, Ph.D. National Museum of Ethnology National Institutes for the Humanitites Graduate School of Advanced Studies, Japan with more than 50% of the population aged 65 or older have been called “Genkai Shūraku” (region in limit situation) (Ōno 2005), expressing worries especially for older people lost or isolated. Older people who had previously thrived in the forestry and mandarin orange industries refused to believe that just going to the mountain, picking up leaves, and putting them in a box was “real work.” Keywords: adult; aging; community; information; japan; kamikatsu; kamikatsu town; leaves; life; new; people; suzuki; town; work
The Sense of Social Commitment and Well-being among Older Japanese Women: Focusing on the Reinterpretation and Exhibition of Bridal Noren by Taniguchi, Yoko (2012) - I conducted informal, “non-directed” interviews with two of the five women who took leadership in the activity of bridal noren exhibition. . These women’s activity reinterprets the given values of bridal noren (door curtain), a local object known for its beautiful sensuousness. Keywords: aging; bridal; exhibition; family; ikigai; japan; life; nanao; noren; people; sense; women
Book Reviews by Kovacich, Joann (2014) - Although present in the 1960s, nursing home care and maltreatment drastically emerged as a social problem and came to the forefront in the 1970s. As noted above, it may be possible to add that to the repertoire of CAE for older people that they can do by themselves or with some help. Keywords: aging; authors; book; care; chapters; health; life; nursing; panthers; people; research; time
Review: Vital Relations: Modernity and the Persistent Life of Kinship by Golomski, Casey (2015) - Their major argument is that conceptualizations of Euro-American modernity have long rested on presuppositions about pre-modern and modern societies where kinship is central to the former and erased, sidelined, or subsumed by more powerful social forms in the latter. Through historical processes of epistemological domaining, kinship was separated from politics, law, economics, science and religion. Keywords: aging; course; kinship; life; modernity
Just Kill Me When I’m 50: Impact of Gay American Culture on Young Gay Men’s Perceptions of Aging by Fredericksen, Rob Jay (2010) - There was a lack of desire to connect with older gay men. [Michael] Some [older gay men] are bitter that some young guys have more powers such as coming out in early age, have more rights than they did when they were our age. Keywords: age; aging; community; culture; felt; future; gay; life; male; men; resilience; sense; time
New Publications 2010 by Cattell, Maria (2010) - Park, N.S. 2009 The relationship of social engagement to psychological well-being of older adults in assisted living facilities. Boon, H. et al. 2010 Correlates of grief among older adults caring for children and grandchildren as a consequence of HIV and AIDS in South Africa. Keywords: age; aging; gerontology; health; jccg; life; research
New Publications 2010 by Cattell, Maria (2010) - Burns, V. 2010 Socially isolated older adults: Not so ‘at risk’ after all [Canada]. The real truth about aging: A survival guide for older adults and caregivers. Keywords: aging; eds; gerontology; health; jccg; life; new; research; springer
The 2010 AAA Aging and Life Course Interest Group Guide to Key Resources by Sokolovsky, Jay (2010) - New York: New York University Press. New York: University Press of America. Keywords: aging; eds; life; new; press; university; university press; york
Review: Growing Up Growing Old: Trajectories of Times and Lives by Brown, Diane L. (2015) - When this group approached their early 60’s they assumed work life was over and retreated to the golf courses of Arizona or Florida and became known as the snowbirds. Tam’s story is supported by the idea of the “Mannheimian concept” which basically says generations can become distinctive from other generations based on their “participation in life events” (p. 48). Keywords: age; life

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Ethnoculturally-profiled care: Dementia caregiving targeted towards Middle Eastern immigrants living in Sweden. by Antelius, Eleonor; Plejert, Charlotta (2023) - Microsoft Word - AnteliusfNOV.docx Ethnoculturally-‐‑profiled care Dementia caregiving targeted towards Middle Eastern immigrants living in Sweden Eleonor Antelius, Charlotta Plejert Linköping University Author contact: eleonor.antelius@liu.se, charlotta.plejert@liu.se Abstract When social contexts have been taken into account in dementia studies, they have often been ascribed to the private surroundings of the person living with dementia, giving the illusion of dementia ‘occurring in a vacuum’. Keywords: ageing; antelius; backgrounds; care; culture; dementia; disease; eastern; middle; people; persons; research; study; sweden
“What Doraemon, the Earless Blue Robot Cat from the 22nd Century, Can Teach Us About How Japan’s Elderly and Their Human Caregivers Might Live with Emotional Care Robots.” by Marshall, Robert C. (2016) - “Japan’s Soft Power: Doraemon Goes Overseas.” Microsoft Word - MarshallfNOV.docx “What Doraemon, the Earless Blue Robot Cat from the 22nd Century, Can Teach Us About How Japan’s Elderly and Their Human Caregivers Might Live with Emotional Care Robots.” Keywords: aging; care; character; children; doraemon; family; japan; japanese; marshall; mothers; nobita; press; robot; technology; vol; way; women
The Familial Dyad between Aged Patients and Filipina Caregivers in Israel: Eldercare, Bodily-based Practices, and the Jewish Family by Mazus, Keren (2013) - Keywords: bodily-based practices, eldercare, Filipina caregivers, empathy, family, dyad Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2013: 34 (3) 127 Keren Mazuz The Family Dyad between Aged Patients and Filipina Caregivers in Israel I argue that the family-like relationship creates a familial dyad between the Filipina caregiver and the Israeli patient based on bodily-based of care practices. The research was based mostly on observation and participant-observation at the homes of thirty Israeli patients cared for by Filipina caregivers in a town located in the southern region of the country. Keywords: care; caregivers; dyad; family; filipina; israel; jina; patient; practices; sima
The Social Context of Collective Physical Training among Chinese Elderly: An Anthropological Case Study in a Park in Beijing by Park, Yeori (2017) - The Chinese traditionally emphasize the concept of yangsheng, which refers to mental and physical self- discipline; elderly participants think they can maintain their health without the help of medical experts. For this study, senior citizens aged 60 or above who participated in collective physical training in a park in Beijing were observed for five months. Keywords: age; aging; care; china; chinese; elderly; government; group; park; participants; people; training
Review: Midford, Paul, Saito, Yayoi, Campbell, John Creighton and Edvardsen, Unni. (Editors). Eldercare Policies in Japan and Scandinavia: Aging Societies East and West. by Lau, Janice Y C (2016) - The perspectives of gender and social changes are taken into consideration within their discussions of the “negotiation of new ways of care” (p.116) in Japan and direction to both “de-‐‑familiarization and re-‐‑familiarization” in Norway (p.146). “Mechanism for ensuring quality of care” is the final theme of the volume. Keywords: aging; care; japan
Review: Kazer, Meredith Wallace and Murphy, Kathy. Nursing Case Studies on Improving Health-Related Quality of Life in Older Adults. by Lewis-Pierre, LaToya (2016) - The case study describes promoting quality of care in a residential living facility. The case study effectively described the circumstances surrounding the resident’s admission to the long-‐‑term care facility and the relevant areas for health care providers to provide care. Keywords: care; health
Book Review: Reluctant Intimacies: Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands by Danely, Jason (2017) - By grounding these concepts in ethnographic descriptions, Świtek moves us beyond a simple notion of workplace discrimination, showing instead the ways candidates sought ways to accommodate Japanese ways of life and even find friendship. Beata Świtek’s ethnography of the first cohort of Indonesian care work trainees brought to Japan under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) helps us peel away the many layers of representation that circulate in debates about aging, immigration and care by taking the us into the rooms of the nursing homes where encounters between trainees, Japanese staff members, and residents bring “national imaginations and public discourses (4) to the level of personal relationships and everyday practices used in constructing, recognising and denying the viability of certain kinds of person (4). Keywords: care; japan; japanese; świtek
Imagining Institutional Care, Practicing Domestic Care: Inscriptions around Aging in Southern Ghana by Coe, Cati (2023) - My research on changes in old age care was prompted by my visit to the town and district capital of Akropong in the Eastern Region in June 2013, after a four-year absence. These alterodox age-inscriptions urged acceptance of children’s financial and emotional limitations and expressed openness to alternative arrangements, including hiring a domestic servant to care for an aging person and articulating an interest in old age homes as a solution to the problems older adults face. Keywords: adults; age; age homes; aging; akropong; care; children; church; coe; facilities; ghana; homes; new; people; presbyterian; state
Complexities of elder livelihoods: Changing age-inscriptions and stable norms in three villages in rural West Africa by Häberlein, Tabea (2018) - The intergenerational contract seems to be a dominant social norm of senior care all over the world, in which older adults are cared for reciprocally by those for whom they have cared. Yet in three villages in northern Benin and northern Togo, this intergenerational norm seems to be breached, with older adults living alone and in poverty. Keywords: adults; africa; age; aging; alber; asséré; care; children; häberlein; migration; parents; people; relatives; research; support; tchitchakou; villages
Book Review: Ageing in the Contexts of Migration by Dalstrom, Matthew (2017) - For instance, in chapter two, Perek- Biatas and Slany discuss how higher wages and the limited amount of elder care staff in Germany, has resulted in an influx of Polish elder care workers. For example, chapter 11 begins with a literature review of migrant care worker policies, jobs, and working conditions. Keywords: aging; care; migration
Book Review: Sexuality & Dementia: Compassionate and Practical Strategies for Dealing with Unexpected or Inappropriate Behaviors. by Lau, Janice Y C (2018) - Chapter 9 proposes some practical steps to support nursing care staff in managing sexual inappropriateness in long- term care dementia residents, as well as a detailed summary of treatments across various domains of medical knowledge and therapies, which are useful tools to prepare someone for advancement of their professional practice. It then discusses issues and challenges confronting families, nursing home staff and primary care doctors in dealing with unexpected sexual behaviors, and ways to support both patients and the people around them, both medically and psychosocially in the subsequent chapters. Keywords: care; sexuality; wornell
Book Review: Ageing in Sub-Saharan Africa: Spaces and Practices of Care by Golomski, Casey (2019) - She highlights older adult care recipients’ self- described maladies and movements into different sites deemed ‘home’, so caregivers can address their physical and emotional needs. Peter Van Eeuwijk (Chapter 3) explores elder-to-elder care, as an unconventional, but accepted care practice in Tanzania and documents a range of mostly urban caregiving sites like clubs, associational and self-help groups, NGOs, and nursing environments. Keywords: adults; care; chapter; practices
Mobile Midwesterners: The Impact of Migration on Aging, Health, and Community by Dalstrom, Matthew (2013) - For instance, at the weekly park meetings held in the Hall, retirees had the opportunity to share announcements with fellow park residents and solicit volunteers for a variety of activities such as quilting, trips to Mexico, and intra-park competitions (horse shoes, scuffle board, etc.). Moreover, the mentors encouraged people to participate in the park activities as emphasized in the welcome packet: All…residents are encouraged to contribute their energy and skills to park activities. Keywords: aging; care; community; dalstrom; health; lrgv; medical; mexico; midwest; midwesterners; migration; park; people; residents; retirement; texans; winter
Book Review: Care Across Distance: Ethnographic Explorations of Ageing and Migration by Yarris, Kristin Elizabeth (2019) - In this review, then, I focus on five threads from across the book’s chapters that can contribute to a more “glocal” (Appadurai 1996) theorization of care across experiences of migration and ageing: heterogeneity and malleability of care networks, care as a moral and biopolitical issue respectively and failures of state policies to meet social challenges on the convergence of ageing, migration and care. Other chapters focus more on the biopolitical dimensions of care. Keywords: ageing; book; care; migration
Book Review: Inequalities of Aging: Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care by Carrillo, Erika (2019) - She argues that, while home care workers safeguard older adults’ independence, these care exchanges systematically generate inequalities and limitations for paid home care workers. By engaging similarly with the intricacies of the lives of older adults, paid home care workers, and home care agencies in Chicago, Buch sheds new light on care exchanges in elderly home care. Keywords: buch; care; home; workers
Gender Imbalance, Marriage Squeeze and Multiple Biological Clocks: Exploring Challenges to the Intergenerational Contract in North India by Mishra, Paro; Kaur, Ravinder (2021) - Though cases like this were very rare, these ethnographic vignettes show that elderly unmarried sons may not contribute to parental care if they feel that parents had breached their side of the contract guided by personal desires, motives, or reckless behaviour. Under patrilineal family systems, daughters-in-law are expected to provide old age care for the elderly parents of their husbands (Allendorf 2017; Bhat and Dhruvarajan 2001; Dharmalingam 1994; Dey 2016; Kaur 2008; Shah 1999). Keywords: aging; care; families; family; gender; haryana; household; india; kaur; law; marriage; men; mishra; parents; sex; sons; women
Let Him Hold You: Spiritual and Social Support in a Catholic Convent Infirmary by Corwin, Anna I (2012) - Keywords: Aging, Care, Prayer, Wellbeing, social support, Catholicism 121 Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2012: 33 (4) Anna Corwin Let Him Hold You Sisters of the Heart convent to show what social and linguistic tools elderly nuns use to integrate the divine into their everyday interactions and how these interactions render all health-care interactions in the infirmary sacred. When she is invited in, Sr. Irma removes the shoes and socks from the sisters’ feet; she encourages them to relax; and she massages their feet as they recline in an easy chair or on the bed. Keywords: care; convent; divine; infirmary; interactions; irma; jesus; nuns; sisters; support
Book Review: Crossborder Care: Lessons from Central Europe by Yan, Zhe (2020) - They hold that care workers should be seen as active, purposeful agents, positively constructing their own life projects. This argument derives from current analyses of migrant care work, that commonly focus on global care chains and care regimes, neither of which give prominence to the agency of care workers. Keywords: book; care; workers
Book Review: Designing Cultures of Care by Zimmer, Richard (2020) - Other spaces must be designed for periodic closures and distancing (Chang 2020). The COVID-19 pandemic, because of its uncertainties in terms of intensity, surges, mutations, and asymptomatic people, raises serious design questions. Keywords: aging; care; design; people; review
COVID-19 and the Kin Contract: Navigating the Family and the State During the Pandemic by Hughes Rinker, Cortney; Bataille, M. Aspen; Figueroa Ortiz, Loumarie (2020) - The “kin contract” brings to light the relationships among multiple interlocking domains of life during the pandemic—finances, politics, family, and culture – that are mediated daily and are an integral part of family life. There is ample reason to believe that the role of grandparents in family life has, in the current situation, become more important than ever before. Keywords: care; contract; covid-19; family; grandchildren; grandparents; kin; pandemic
Paying Down the Care Deficit: The Health Consequences for Grandmothers Caring for Grandchildren in a Mexican Migrant Community of Origin by Scott, Mary Alice (2012) - The consequences of care work substitution for grandmothers include the production and exacerbation of chronic illness, an issue that underscores the need to deconstruct and work against not only the naturalization of care work as women’s work, but also the ways in which such naturalization burdens particular women in specific global contexts. Rather than an individual, mutually beneficial relationship between anthropologist and research participant, Sara’s suggestion points to one Abstract While significant research addresses global chains of care work from the perspective of female migrant workers engaged in low-paid, unstable domestic labor in “receiving” communities, little research has focused on those who substitute for migrant workers to provide care in communities of origin. Keywords: alicia; care; care work; family; grandchildren; grandmothers; health; illness; jesica; labor; migrant; migration; patricia; research; women; work
Recognizing Older Individuals: An Essay on Critical Gerontology, Robin Hood, and the COVID-19 Crisis by Leibing, Annette (2020) - The journalist not only challenges the governance of older peoples’ lives in Quebec (as does the first scandal), the prescriptions found by the Minister, clowns and seals for older people – for many considered good practices in elder care (e.g., Warren and Spitzer 2011) – get now inversed. All scholars in aging studies – critical or not – agree on one point: the COVID-19 crisis laid bare structural and interpersonal factors of neglect which have been going on for a long time; and with that, catapulted older people out of their partial invisibility as has rarely happened before. Keywords: aging; care; covid-19; critique; dementia; homes; leibing; nursing; online; people; québec
Book Review: Creative Care: A Revolutionary Approach to Dementia and Elder Care by Ciofi, Joy (2021) - The positive tone and inspirational stories shared in this book contrast sharply with many of the medicalized, market-based realities of dementia care in the United States and elsewhere. At its heart, creative care is not really about painting or singing, although those things certainly happen. Keywords: basting; book; care; dementia
Book Review: Caring for the People of the Clouds: Aging and Dementia in Oaxaca by Engel, Cíntia (2021) - As forgetfulness might be viewed as the decay of social values such as supporting the family and the community, caregivers can be held personally accountable for the worsening of dementia symptoms in older adults and at the same time for the general decay of social cohesion. Based on interviews with family caregivers and analysis of local newspapers, street art, and public campaigns on aging, Yahalom argues that older adults in Oaxaca are traditionally admired and respected for being carriers of cultural knowledge. Keywords: aging; care; caregivers; dementia; yahalom
Book Review: Elderly Care, Intergenerational Relationships and Social Change in Rural China by Ma, Mengxing (2021) - For instance, adult children may face the conflict between staying at home to care for older parents and doing migrant work to make money. Furthermore, the overall tone of Chapter 7, which describes “caring for ageing parents in the migration era” (133) is very positive and optimistic about the ways adult children successfully adapt to a changing labor market and adjust their ways of caring for older parents according to new possibilities and demands. Keywords: book; care; china
Film Review: Mother by Wong, Karen Lok Yi (2021) - While the movie contains many voices, one of the most pertinent and direct ones is that of Pomm, a Thai woman who worked as a caregiver in Baan Kamlangchay at the time of filming, and to whom Bilsen “hands over the camera” (Chalfen and Rich 2007, 53) to document her life as it unfolds along multiple practices of care. As Pomm, together with Bilsen, reminds: in a capitalist economy, privilege for some often means the consolidation of existing disadvantages for others. Keywords: care; elisabeth; film; pomm
“Cinderella Men”: Husband- and Son- Caregivers for Elders with Dementia in Shanghai by Zhang, Yan (2021) - Swinkels and colleagues (2019) also found that secondary stressors related to caregiving (such as relational/financial issues and problems combining different tasks) can lead to wife caregivers experiencing greater challenges than husband caregivers. The stories of husband caregivers seemed to be affected by the one-child policy since 12 husband caregivers had only one child. Keywords: adult; care; caregivers; caregiving; family; gender; home; husband; men; mother; parents; shanghai; son; wife; women
Book Review: Rituals of Care: Karmic Politics in an Aging Thailand by Vincent-Forbes, Katrina (2021) - By framing care as a ritual, it conveys the everyday mundane rituals included in care and the importance of embodied care practice. In Rituals of Care, anthropologist and ethnographic filmmaker Felicity Aulino examines care practices predominantly in Northern Thailand. Keywords: aulino; care; university
Book Review: The New American Servitude: Political Belonging Among African Immigrant Home Care Workers by Krajecki, Lisa; Paxton, B. A.; Glaser, Alana Lee (2021) - For example, she describes several instances when her Ghanaian interlocutors, underemployed as home healthcare workers, are unable to materially benefit from the advanced degrees and academic credentials that they brought with them to the United States—a vexing and familiar issue facing immigrant workers across the country. Chapters one through three describe the racism that African immigrant home care workers experience and how these work positions complicate their political belonging. Keywords: care; coe; home; workers
Book Review: Growing Old in a New China: Transitions in Elder Care by Li, Shuting (2021) - Today, filial care that adult children should conduct can be substituted by various forms of care, such as community care, self-care, spousal care, and institutional care. Despite the fact that family care is still central to filial piety, today, demand for institutional care is increasing rapidly. Keywords: care; china; elder; keimig
Book Review: Linked Lives: Elder Care, Migration and Kinship in Sri Lanka by Kretser, Irina (2021) - For example, empty houses indicate a violation of the social reproduction of the family and of regular practices of elderly care. As Chapter 5 clearly demonstrates, the house, care for older adults, the continuity of family life, and migration are closely linked; whereas due to ‘ultimogeniture’—a common pattern of inheritance of property in Naeaegama—the youngest son traditionally inherits the house and takes up the duty of caring for the elderly in it, migration now involves selling the house, migrating to bigger cities or other countries, and outsourcing elderly care to professionals or other family members. Keywords: book; care; family; gamburd
Jurkowski, Elaine T. Implementing Culture Change in Long-Term Care: Benchmarks and Strategies for Management and Practice by Shield, Renée Rose (2014) - In Part II, Jurkowski describes strategies and benchmarks of culture change practices in detail, itemizing the different domains that are typically targeted: care practices, environmental improvements, family/community practices, leadership practices, workplace practices and outcome practices. While this volume is a useful handbook to help implement culture change practices in US long-term care, anthropologists will find certain considerations lacking. Keywords: care; change; culture; nursing; practices
Book Review: Changes in Care: Aging, Migration, and Social Class in West Africa by Torno, Swetlana (2022) - The changes in age and care inscriptions in both sites are mainly driven by migration to urban centres or abroad in search for work or higher education, increasing labour demands on women, and the consolidation of a middle- class with distinct life-styles. This market consists of home care agencies and a small number of nursing homes, which cater to the needs of the growing urban middle-class and international migrants, who are able to pay for these services. Keywords: aging; book; care; coe; university
Stafford, Phillip, B. ed. Gray Areas: Ethnographic Encounters with Nursing Home Culture by Wagner, Jennifer A. (2014) - At first I was shocked at the culture presented in the chapters on acute care in nursing homes and thought to myself that books such as this are why negative stereotypes of nursing homes continue to exist. I found the perceptions about acute care in nursing homes by doctors and other professionals all too reminiscent of how we used to think and work. Keywords: book; care
What Older Prisoners Teach Us About Care and Justice in An Aging World by Danely, Jason (2022) - What Older Prisoners Teach Us About Care and Justice in An Aging World Jason Danely jdanely@brookes.ac.uk Oxford Brookes University Abstract Over the last two decades, there has been a rapid rise in the proportion of older adults in prisons across the world. Keywords: Older Prisoners; Incarceration; Confinement; Justice; Ethnography Anthropology & Aging, Vol 43, No 1 (2022), pp. Keywords: age; aging; care; humblet; individuals; justice; maschi; people; prison; prisoners; research
Book Review: Ways of Home Making in Care for Later Life by Yuenki Lai, Francisca (2022) - Jacobsen argues that the aging experience is shaped by culture; therefore the meaning of home and public policy on home care should take full consideration of social factors, such as gender and social status, as they shape the needs and preferences of different older women and men. Loretta Baldassar, Raelene Wilding, and Shane Worrell (Chapter 3) articulate the concepts of “local home making,” “community home making,” and “digital home making” to analyse the different ways the Karen and Italian older migrants in Australia sustain their ideals of home when some of their kin members are living overseas. Keywords: book; care; home; making
Book Review: The Global Smartphone: Beyond a Youth Technology by Mishra, Paro (2022) - The authors remind that these discourses are operating across scales, from the macro level (e.g., in the media, state policies, market) to the everyday micro level (amongst smartphone users) and as such shape people’s ambivalent and contradictory understandings of smartphones as both harmful and useful. The authors note that this opportunism is also experienced differently by smartphone users across various field sites. Keywords: aging; authors; book; care; chapter; people; smartphone
Book Review: Eldercare Issues in China and India by Tripathi, Ashwin (2023) - In Section 3, “Institutionalised and Formal Eldercare,” Fei Peng, Mang He and Nuermaimaijiang Kulaixi (Chapter 6) explore the stigmatization of older Chinese adults through nimbyism, or the “Not in my Backyard” (NIMBY) effect. Discussing this phenomenon through an understanding of sudden health shock, the authors elaborate on the everyday experiences of Chinese older adults and how they carry out a multistage process of social adaptation after their loss. Keywords: aging; care; chapter; china; india
Book Reviews by Briller, Sherri (2012) - Organizational researchers would have focused on those factors that allowed the variation in unit care to continue, thereby shedding light on broader nursing home goals, decision making, and internal conflict. These lyrics from the opening song in ten more good years, performed by Sorenson & Mechlowicz, speak to the often misunderstood experiences of gay elders in America—a segment of our population whom social science scholars often call “invisible”. Keywords: care; elders; gay; home; nursing
Book Review: Robots Won't Save Japan: An Ethnography of Eldercare Automation by Marshall, Robert C. (2023) - A major difficulty to which I will return below is the constructed opposition of care robots versus foreign care workers, a future of one or the other. To date, only about 10% of Japan’s eldercare institutions have introduced care robots at all, and in these few places less than half the care staff have found them useful. Keywords: care; eldercare; japan; robots; wright
Book Review: Fragile Resonance: Caring for Older Family Members in Japan and England by Eilat, Shvat (2023) - The fifth chapter, Counter-Worlds of Care, brings together evidence of what opens the carers' experiences into other possibilities to think about their situation and what haunts the worlds of care in which they dwell. In the last chapter, The Politics of Care, Danely shows how care is influenced by political changes— austerity policies and conditions of market failure in care, for example. Keywords: care; carers; danely; resonance
Book Review: At Home in a Nursing Home: An Ethnography of Movement and Care in Australia by Chirinos, Carlos (2023) - The second part, “Care,” discusses the disjuncture between how care is given by care workers and experienced by nursing home residents through actions such as showering, giving a massage, or eating. As the author points out, care workers must create a close relationship with cognitively impaired people to allow these residents “to prepare themselves for eating” (273). Keywords: care; home; zhang
Note from the Field: Women’s Shared Experiences of Care Work between Melbourne, Australia, and Athens, Greece by Ince, Katrina (2025) - Many families chose home care over institutional care throughout the pandemic, partly due to increased mortality associated with the virus in assisted-living settings. Another interlocutor at a nearby hair salon, Hera, agreed that home care is a struggle. Keywords: athens; care; family; greece; hestia; home; mother; work
Institutional Care for our Elders: A Conversation with Dr. Ellen Badone by Conty, Sheridan (2024) - Dr. Badone and I share this interest and discussed it in relation to another shared interest: the study of aging and elder care systems in Ontario. When we sat down for our interview, Dr. Badone explained to me that although she might have originally described herself as a folklorist, she now identifies her work as being part of the realm of medical anthropology. Keywords: aging; badone; care; ltc
Book Review: Care Poverty: When Older People’s Needs Remain Unmet. by Panchadhyayi, Sayendri (2024) - Dovetailing with his previous work, this monograph deftly shows how social inequalities escalate to care poverty. Incorporation of care poverty “could introduce a more societal approach and thus help research focus its attention on social inequalities, long-term care policies, and their manifold connections with the lack of adequate care” (202). Keywords: care; kröger; needs; poverty; review; unmet
Book Review: Care Technologies for Ageing Societies: An International Comparison by Menon, Rhea Jaikumar (2024) - The book contributes significantly to understanding these critical issues and gaps between care policy and practice and how they impact the utilization of care technologies in aging societies. Through an international comparative analysis of policy frameworks, national data, primary research, and secondary literature, this book examines the convergences and divergences in the role of care technologies within national policy and care services provision between countries facing similar demographic challenges. Keywords: book; care; policy; technologies; technology
Film Review: Circuits of Care: Ageing and Japan’s Robot Revolution by Ta, Tang X. (2024) - In an interview, political scientist Naonori Kodate from University College Dublin explains that labor force shortages and government incentives are propelling this pace of robot development. Testimonies by users of companion robots immediately speak to the potential of these technologies to improve quality of life. Keywords: care; film; japan; review; university
Book Review: The Global Old Age Care Industry: Tapping into Migrants for Tackling the Old Age Care Crisis. by Davis, Boyd H. (2024) - This edited volume highlights the roles played by migrant care workers across European and East Asian countries and demonstrates “the increasing complexity and entanglements of migration and old-age care at the global level” (3). The ways migrant care workers are deployed varies by a country’s policies and subsequent regulations for care labor. Keywords: care; ham; review; workers
Book Review: Calling Family: Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational Care Collectives by Gamburd, Michele (2024) - Ahlin introduces the concept of “care collectives” to describe assemblages of people and technologies, such as phones and webcams, which allow migrant Christian nurses to provide care at a distance for their aging parents. Ahlin deftly scrutinizes and critiques the stereotypes of selfish migrants and abandoned elders by explaining how, through care collectives, migrant children offer seva from a distance. Keywords: ahlin; book; care; collectives
A Terminal Patient’s Hopes for Connections Transcending Time by Kondo-Arita, Megumi (2012) - Background of the case study The case study presented here involved 14 interviews with a 69-year-old patient whom I shall call “Kikyo,” dying of rectal cancer which had metastasized to her lungs. Kikyo had already lost her parents and husband, but had a married son and two married daughters. Keywords: cancer; care; death; dying; family; japanese; kikyo; patient; terminal; time
Book Review: Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, Care by De Togni, Giulia (2024) - This approach raises important questions about what good quality care entails and what it means to provide such care across different societies. Jordan argues for a re-evaluation of Franck’s contributions to visual gerontology, noting how her photography reshapes societal perceptions of older adults by stressing the active role they can exercise in society. Keywords: aging; care; illness; sako
Enabling Dwelling: Caregiving and Familiar Object Interactions amidst Cognitive Decline in Rural South Africa by Brear, Michelle; Nkovana, Themby; Manderson, Lenore (2025) - Conclusion Facilitating familiar object interactions is an act of care. Adult diapers and other objects become points of social conflict known as “contested territories” (Clarke et al. 2010). Keywords: care; decline; dementia; health; home; identity; interactions; nonisa; objects; people; rhandzu; rhulani; water; women; xisthembiso
Navigating Mediated Kinship and Care in Our Aging Futures by Sheahan, Jacob (2024) - Engaging in care kinship requires active engagement in everyday tasks alongside maintenance or improvement on a longer timescale. Collaborating with designers and older participants, ‘Care Futures’ told eight short stories that depicted a scenario of aging and care, of which the design team wrote four, and four more were generated using ChatGPT (Liu et al. 2023). Keywords: aging; care; futures; kinship; place; relations; sheahan
Digital Kinship: The Future Calling by Patel, Shivangi (2024) - When discussing transnational care with my 62 year old male respondent Deepjot, who was living in Delhi, India, he promptly stated that his son, who had moved to Canada with their daughter-in-law, was providing care to him through daily phone calls. The findings of and experiences shared during that research have prompted me to respond positively to such questions of digital care. Keywords: aging; care; families; family; india; kinship; living; migration; new; technology
Book Review: Cultures of Ageing and Ageism in India by Borpujari, Priyanka (2025) - No 1 (2025) ISSN 2374-2267 (online) DOI 10.5195/aa.2025.572 http://anthro-age.pitt.edu 79 rural India, or of those who are active online (Borpujari 2024)—they also touch upon the layered texture of care work as something beyond work as I experience it sitting beside my feisty and temporarily ailing mother. The study of aging thus includes reflection on India’s queer aged practices, and the possibility of care networks developed through affective bonds rather than blood ties. Keywords: aging; book; care; india; review
Book Review: Voices of Long-Term Care Workers: Elder Care in the Time of Covid-19 and Beyond by Pang, Celeste (2025) - As the authors outline, the pandemic highlighted long-standing issues related to human infrastructure and exposed the labor conditions of care workers. Other studies conducted in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic emphasize similar structural issues, including negative impacts of systemic underfunding, chronic staff shortages, and lack of resources on patient and worker care and safety (e.g., Badone 2021; Estabrooks 2023; Titley et. al. 2022). Keywords: book; care; covid-19; term; workers
Giving and Receiving Care: An Evolving and Enduring Relation by Kao, Philip Y (2010) - Family caregivers struggle in different ways, but are just as hard-pressed for time especially when their loved ones suffer from dementia related conditions (e.g. Alzheimer’s) that demand care and attention constantly. Several support group associations for family caregivers seeking respite have gained increasing popularity over the years as well. Keywords: aging; care; caregivers; caregiving; family; home; support
Aging, Relatedness, and Social Abandonment in Highland Peru by Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. (2015) - However, transnational migrants also rely on child circulation in order to meet important social responsibilities as grown children of aging parents, because they have brought into the household a related child who will accompany and care for the elder. The reasons for abandonment are not surprising, and they are similar to the reasons I collected for child abandonment in previous research. Keywords: aging; asilo; asunción; care; children; peru; research
Respecting the Aging Self: Communication in the Nursing Home by Tinney, Jean (2015) - This emphasis on staff continuity as a means of enhancing resident care was a recurring theme. “Know your resident”: continuity of staffing Most staff believed that knowing residents well was the key to understanding them and anticipating their needs, and this was an important care issue. Keywords: aging; care; communication; home; needs; nursing; person; residents; respect; self; staff; time
Embedding engineers in elderly care homes when researching new technologies for care by Baldewijns, Greet; Croonenborghs, Tom; Vanrumste, Bart (2015) - The first use-case therefore aims to test drive different fall detection technologies both present on the commercial market as well as systems which are currently under investigation in different research centers. 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 Year N u m b e r o f p u b lic a tio n s Baldewijns, Crooneborghs & Vanrumste | Embedding Engineers in Elderly Care Homes When Researching New Technologies for Care Anthropology & Aging Vol 36, No 2 (2015) ISSN 2374-2267 (online) DOI 10.5195/ aa.2015.98 http://anthro-age.pitt.edu 137 137 Firstly, there are a very limited number of studies concerning the needs of different stakeholders with regards to elder care technology. Keywords: care; collaboration; engineers; healthcare; project; research; stakeholders; technologies; technology

People

Agencements of Reanimation: Facilitating an Active Old Age through Danish Co-Creation Initiatives by Lassen, Aske Juul (2019) - The redistribution of agency within the welfare state is often criticized for being merely a way of saving public funding, but while many (often aging) volunteers engage in the care of frail, older citizens, the endeavor to reanimate old age through co-creation also requires municipal employees and funds to organize volunteers and their efforts. As ideals of active citizenship go hand in hand with the endeavor to activate older people and reanimate old age, co-creation has become an explicit ambition in healthy aging policies ((Scheele, Vrangbæk, and Kriegbaum 2019; Voorberg, Bekkers, and Tummers 2015). Keywords: age; aging; choir; citizens; copd; creation; cwa; health; initiatives; municipalities; municipality; people; reanimation; way
No Peace in the House: Witchcraft Accusations as an “Old Woman’s Problem” in Ghana by Crampton, Alexandra (2013) - At the same time older women are far more likely to be attacked by witchcraft accusations in verbal abuse, as in the man who would get drunk and call his mother a witch. On the other hand, older women marginalized within family systems are vulnerable to attack and even abuse. Keywords: accusations; aging; camps; elder; family; gambaga; ghana; house; intervention; peace; people; problem; research; rights; witchcraft; witches; women; work
Modernization, Aging and Coresidence of Older Persons: the Sri Lankan Experience by de Silva, Amarasiri; Welgama, W.M.J. (2014) - Abstract This paper examines the effects of the modernization on the living arrangements of elderly people in six selected communities representing urban, semi-urban, estate, rural, colonized settlement and fishing villages in Sri Lanka. The paper concludes that the modernization of the economy and society has exacerbated an intergenerational rift leading to an intensification of tensions between elderly people and other family members, despite the fact that the percentage of older people living with their children remains high. Keywords: aging; children; communities; community; coresidence; daughter; family; house; lanka; living; modernization; parents; people; persons; population; sri; sri lanka; traditional; vol; work
PORTFOLIO: Academics as Allies and Accomplices: Practices for Decolonized Solidarity by Southam, Theresa (2021) - The same accounts for non-Indigenous people learning about Indigenous peoples solely through reading their works: this approach can lead to inaccurate interpretations of Indigenous ways of knowing, and the mere reading will never involve learning if it is not embedded in an ongoing relational practice. Recent identification by non-Indigenous people of mass graves for these children (Indigenous people always knew the graves were there) attest to the fact that these were not schools but places of cultural genocide (van den Akker 2021). Keywords: allyship; college; doi; fenton; indigenous; learning; online; paul; people; portfolio; racism; solidarity; southam; teachings; vol; ways
Ageing in Space: Remaking Community for Older Adults by Ågotnes, Gudmund; Charlesworth, Sara; MacDonald, Martha (2022) - In this paper, we explore the needs of older adults for social interaction by investigating how local and everyday communities are produced by service organisations and experienced by their patrons. We approach the social needs of older adults through the lens of ‘community,’ both as a concept and as a lived experience. Keywords: adults; ageing; aip; belonging; centre; city; coffee; communities; community; hand; interaction; organisations; patrons; people; place; policy; social; space; store; ågotnes
Book Review: Communication for Successful Aging: Empowering Individuals Across the Lifespan by Seaman, Aaron (2022) - Chapter 4 tightens the lens around age identities to center on “The Ingredients of Intergenerational Communication.” A communication-centric approach directs attention to how such identities become salient and their meanings negotiated through conversation and other communications, such as birthday cards (and, by extension, the birthday industry writ large) with tropes of Over the Hill and the like. Keywords: age; aging; authors; communication; people
The Effects of Social-Withdrawal Characteristics Among Older Academics: An Indonesian Case Study by Ramadhan, Adityo Pratikno; Sibly, Suzyrman (2023) - This research report aims to explore the impact that these social-withdrawal characteristics among older people may have on data collection and policy-formulation processes in public universities in Indonesia. The number of older people in Indonesia continued to rise in 2020, with 26 million individuals comprising 9.92% of the population (Sari et al. 2020). Keywords: academics; aging; education; indonesia; online; people; research; staff; study; university; withdrawal
Horticultural Therapy: A Sustainable and Inclusive Approach to Supporting Older People in Brazil by de Almeida Barbosa Franco, Jacqueline; Augusto Có de Seabra , Quintino; Humberto da Silva, Bruno; Alves Teixeira, Adriano; Aparecida Gomes Battistelle, Rosane; Stolte Bezerra, Barbara (2025) - The project sought active participation from Vila Vicentina residents, such as contributing with ideas for the garden’s design, decision-making, garden activities, and improving the community life within the •Describing and monitoring actions, including training older residents in horticulture practices and ensuring ongoing maintenance of the garden. This report explores how horticultural initiatives at Vila Vicentina can enhance the well-being of older residents while contributing to the broader societal goals of sustainability and social equity, as outlined by the SDGs. Keywords: activities; aging; community; garden; horticultural; people; project; residents; vegetable; vicentina; vila; year
Book Review: Ageing with Smartphones in Uganda Togetherness in The Dotcom Age by Hassan, Masha (2024) - ISSN 2374-2267 (online) DOI 10.5195/aa.2024.533 http://anthro-age.pitt.edu 118 In Chapter seven, Hawkins discusses her observations of how people articulated ‘goodness’ in everyday language Older people would often praise those who exhibited a ‘good heart,’ emphasizing values such as generosity, respect, and cooperation. Technologies such as mobile and smartphones are signified as “dotcom tools” and the “dotcom generation” (5) are what older people in Lusozi call the younger generation who are exposed to global information and social media. Keywords: book; hawkins; people; uganda
Review: With a Little Help from our Friends: Creating Community as we Grow Older by Zimmer, Richard (2015) - These are the questions Beth Baker addresses for those of us getting older and those who study and/or work with older people. She suggests future policy directions for the United States in these areas, including changes in zoning laws that make it easier and financially possible to build a variety of housing formats for older people. Keywords: baker; people; university

Age

The Unwanted Help? Enslaved African Americans and their Aging White Masters by Kao, Philip Y. (2016) - Fett, Sharla M. “Consciousness and Calling: African American Midwives at Work in the Antebellum South.” “A Cultural and Economic History of Old Age in America,” Mayo Clinic Proc. 78(7) (Jul 2003): 914-21. Keywords: african; age; aging; americans; caregiving; masters; slave; university; white; work
Introduction to the group submission: “Silver Linings: Older People Defying Expectations” by DuBois, Lindsay; Gambold, Liesl (2013) - Gambold´s study of older women who retire abroad to Mexico and France shows how these women use international retirement as a way to live old age differently. These papers aspire to focus our attention on the ways in which older people depart from the socially defined roles of later life. Keywords: age; aging
Book Review: The Global Age-Friendly Community Movement: A Critical Appraisal by Cohen, Jeremy (2019) - Thematized into five sections, this volume’s twelve chapters cover a broad range of topics, such as equity and sustainability, the building of age-friendly neighborhoods, cross-generational collaboration, aging in rural communities, and well-being in old age. Tine Buffel and Chris Phillipson (Chapter 1) address some of the research and policy issues that come with attempts to build age-friendly communities, and Sharon Baggett (Chapter 2) examines a pilot project in Indiana, which sought to develop age and ability-friendly community initiatives. Keywords: age; aging; chapter; communities; community
For Whom Does the Clock Tick?: Male Repro-Temporality in Fertility Campaigns, Scientific Literature, and Commercial Accounts by Kroløkke, Charlotte (2021) - In particular, according to Pasqualotto, Borges, and Pasqualotto (2008, 198), the offspring of men aged 40 and above are “5.75 times more likely to have autism spectrum disorder (ASD) than were the offspring of men younger than 30 years, after controlling for year of birth, socioeconomic status and maternal age, also older men were at higher risk of fathering a child with schizophrenia. As noted by sociology of law Alan Hunt (1998, 588) in reference to the anti-masturbation campaigns: “It is a distinctively class discourse; it is young men of the upper and middle classes that arouse concern.” Keywords: age; aging; campaign; cells; clock; commercial; dadi; fertility; freezing; kroløkke; male; man; men; new; reproductive; sperm; temporality; ways
Food Roots & Today’s Pantry: The Multiple Meanings of “Thrifty Know-How” among Older African American Women by Lambert-Pennington, Katherine; Pender, Lyndsey (2023) - The result is often a reductionist perspective on food resources that leaves unexplored the ways that life experiences and individual agency intertwine with other factors to shape food practices and preferences (Wolfe, Frongillo, and Valois 2003; Jones et al. 2013). ISSN 2374-2267 (online) DOI 10.5195/aa.2020.265 http://anthro-age.pitt.edu 97 Methods This paper draws on a study of seniors’ food resources and food security that was conducted during a qualitative program evaluation of a health and wellness curriculum offered in four senior centers in Memphis, TN from 2015-2016. Keywords: african; age; aging; american; eating; food; food security; health; household; income; participants; pennington; practices; resources; security; seniors; time; ways; women
All In This Game Together: A Conversation Between Aging Researchers about Research on Aging by Bryanton, Olive; Carlin, Leslie (2020) - Both Leslie and Olive regard ourselves as older adult researchers whose subject is older adults. Olive Bryanton: I guess I’ve always been an activist, and primarily an advocate for older adults. Keywords: age; aging; bryanton; carlin; olive
Rethinking the Assessment of Daily “Difficulties”: From Functional Bodies to Functional Communities by Costley, Alex (2012) - When Maria Vesperi (1998) explored the ways in which older adults became defined as a social problem in an economically challenged urban neighborhood in Florida, she also argued that we need to Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2012: 33 (4) 160 Alex Costly Rethinking Aging and Daily “Difficulties” move past examining what it is like to be old and examine what it feels like to be regarded as old, where old age is not a discrete physical state, but a cultural “concretization” of abstract and often unexamined assumptions and everyday social interactions (1985: 22) -- Introduction from “Culture as Disability” (McDermott and Varenne 1995: 5) Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2012: 33 (4) 158 Alex Costly Rethinking Aging and Daily “Difficulties” encounters where “as subject, I describe; as object, I am described” (1993: 53). Keywords: activities; age; aging; alex; assessment; difficulties; disability; health; living; new; physical; press; ways; york
Book Review: The Aging-Disability Nexus by Wallace, Yvonne (2021) - Dementia has been identified as a particularly productive space to interrogate the fraught relationship between disability and aging: dementia is considered a disease of old age, but simultaneously as “an experience that is not a normal part of aging” (Silva, Cascio, and Racine 2020, 31) that can also befall people under 65, who are given the culturally specific diagnosis ‘early onset dementia.’ This analytical endeavour helps counter ageist and ableist assumptions about people aging into disability as well as about people with disabilities who age. Keywords: age; aging; dementia; disability; review
Book Review: The Right to an Age-Friendly City: Redistribution, Recognition, and Senior Citizen Rights in Urban Space by Wallace, Yvonne (2022) - The author finds in AFC policy and local governance what Newman in 2014 deemed a “landscape of antagonism” (quoted in Joy 2020, 14): policy actors, whether institutional or individual within AFC policy hold disparate ideas and challenge opposing political approaches (14). Yet researchers have argued that the impact of AFC policy on the lives of seniors has been limited (Buffel and Phillipson 2016). Keywords: age; joy; policy
Book Review: Age as Disease: Anti-Aging Technologies, Sites and Practices by Tripathi, Ashwin (2022) - Chapter 1 expands on the biomedical model of age(ing) which configures older bodies as “deficit…as a form of disease-state” (3). Chapter 3 discusses “gerontological hygiene” as an important principle in the perpetuation of a neo- eugenic paradigm that disenfranchises older bodies and renders them as frail and diseased. Keywords: age; aging; book; fletcher
Which Self is 'Ageless'? by Danely, Jason (2023) - “Old age isn’t a state of mind. I apologized to everyone and managed to continue, carefully avoiding any words like ‘senior’ that might connote ‘old age.’ Keywords: age; aging; center; japan; self; university
Young Adults’ Perceptions of Intergenerational Communication: Mongolian and American Data by Choi, Charles W.; Giles, Howard; Hajek, Christopher (2012) - Older adult targets. Older adult targets. Keywords: adults; age; avoidance; communication; giles; group; intergenerational; middle; mongolia; respect; satisfaction; stereotypes
Lessons for Successful Aging: A Centenarian's Lifestyle in a Mexican Community of Aging by Barry, José Azoh (2015) - Enjoys Table 1: Physical Activity of Don Longevo WHO REGULAR ACTIVITY MOVEMENTS/EFFORTS Two women Kitchen helpers Warming tortilla, sweetening, and serving coffee Don Longevo was born in 1900, more exactly on June 24, and has a relevant document to prove it: his birth certificate. Keywords: activity; age; aging; case; centenarian; data; don; health; home; lifestyle; longevo; mexico; nursing; residents; study; years

Book

Review: Aging, Corporeality and Embodiment (Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs) by Begueria, Arantza (2015) - The authors argue that many older people are performing those chosen lifestyles through activities such as active sex in later life (chapter 7), the use of cosmetics, clothing and fashion to promote a youthful look and enhance beauty (chapter 8), the practise of body work and fitness to stay healthy and fit (chapter 9) and the use of self-care techniques related to aspirational medicine and cosmetic surgery (chapter 10). The third section of the book turns from embodied identities to embodied practises. Keywords: aging; body; book
Review: Aging in Rural Places: Policies, Programs, and Professional Practice (K.M. Hash, E.T. Jurkowski, J.A. Krout, eds.) by Pham, T Thao (2015) - Aging in Rural Places contains 13 chapters, organized into five parts: introduction, health and human service needs of rural older adults, providing health and human services to rural older adults, competent practice in rural areas, and conclusion and future directions. Ironically, the lack of research on rural older Americans mirrors the scant resources and services available to the population. Keywords: aging; book
Review: Growing Old in Cameroon: Gender, Vulnerability, and Social Capital. Charles Che Fonchingong. by Cattell, Maria G. (2016) - Finally, Chapter 10 discusses social policy implications of the research and makes policy recommendations such as government allowances for older persons who do not qualify for pensions on the basis of employment and improved health care delivery. Chapters 3 and 4 deal with two meanings of social security: formal pensions and informal family-‐‑ and village-‐‑based arrangements or ʺsocial protection. Keywords: book; chapter; research
Review: Powell, J.L. Global aging, China and Urbanization. by Lindenberg, M.J. (2016) - In this context, he discusses two main discourses: the neoliberal economic discourse and the social discourse around aging in China, while relating these to larger (global) trends. Powell argues that one of the key issues is that in North-‐‑American and European contexts aging is often referred to as a biomedical idiom in which deterioration, decline and decay are primary epistemes. Keywords: aging; book
Review: Dolan, Josephine and Estella Tincknell, eds. Aging Femininities: Troubling Representations. by Mukhopadhyay, Carol C. (2016) - But such places are becoming ʺtherapeuticʺ sites, where ʺhealth therapiesʺ are consumption practices necessary for a ʺhealthy lifestyleʺ, especially for aging women .ʺ Framed as ʺtreatsʺ and ʺpleasurableʺ, the beauty salon ʺcomplicatesʺ the ʺcontainmentʺ perspective since women exert ʺagencyʺ and experience pleasure. ISBN-‐‑13: 978-‐‑1-‐‑4438-‐‑3883-‐‑2 , ISBN-‐‑10: 1-‐‑4438-‐‑3883-‐‑7 , Price: £39.99 Dr. Carol C. Mukhopadhyay Professor Emerita, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, USA carol.mukhopadhyay@sjsu.edu, webpage: www.sjsu.edu/people/carol.mukhopadhyay Media, cultural and feminist studies, according to editors Dolan and Tincknell, have failed to address cultural representations of aging women. Keywords: aging; book; representations; women
Book Review: Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China: Two Generations, One Decision by Ikels, Charlotte (2017) - However, adult children and elders themselves had difficulty accepting the idea that elders with children could now live in such a government- run facility. One of the most interesting findings from this study is that the adult caregiving children, themselves – thanks to China’s only recently modified one child policy - largely parents of single children, are much more accepting of the on- going evolution in elder care. Keywords: book; decision; review
Book Review:Spirituality, Religion and Aging: Illuminations for Therapeutic Practice by Zimmer, Richard (2018) - As for spiritual practices, those one ...those practices one performs to move into sacred space whether this space is visible, invisible, or has other spiritual practices (2018:206.) In addition, she provides case studies and raises ethical concerns for clinicians to help them raise and address client concerns. Keywords: book; religion
Book Review: Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer by Howell, Britteny M. (2019) - In these first chapters, Ehrenreich asks the reader to question everything they know about preventative screenings, which is uncomfortable at times. I had to truly question what I thought I knew about preventative screenings and their effectiveness throughout the book, which details the history of medical “science” and shows that much of it is not based on science at all. Keywords: aging; book; ehrenreich; review
Book Review: Retirement and its Discontents: Why we Won't Stop Working Even If we Can. by Huang, Claudia (2019) - With a greying population rapidly becoming a global phenomenon, many countries around the world are forced to revisit retirement policies that were crafted when life expectancies did not so much exceed the age of retirement from work. Claudia Huang California State University, Long Beach In Retirement and its Discontents, author Michelle Pannor Silver makes sure to clarify at the outset what the book’s objective is not: it is not meant to capture a comprehensive view of how Americans experience retirement in the twenty-first century. Keywords: aging; book; retirement; silver
Book Reviews by Briller, Sherylyn (2013) - To frame this discussion, Goldsmith reflects on what baby boomers have contributed to this society in a wide-range of important areas such as civil rights and environmental issues. Goldsmith uses fictional characters as examples to show how baby boomers are different from past generations, and highlight intragroup variation among the baby boomers too. Keywords: aging; baby; book; boomers; chapter; design; goldsmith; manderson; sanford; social; universal
Book Review: Resilience and Ageing: Creativity, Culture and Community by Carlin, Leslie (2020) - Fang et al. captured the experiences of older adults from Western Canada, moving into a new, purpose-built housing complex, hereby using participatory methods and a transdisciplinary approach to understand community resilience. These activities (e.g. making textiles), did not only aim at creating objects, but also at generating social resilience. Keywords: book; resilience
Book Review: Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life by Howell, Britteny M. (2020) - She recalls that midway through her first year of medical school, weary of chemistry and biology courses, she started contemplating a switch to graduate school in medical anthropology or policy because it “provided glimpses of a worldview absent from my medical textbooks and the lectures I attended” (3). In chapter 5, Aronson points out that the current standards of medical education emphasize algorithms, statistics, normativity, and standardized protocols that work to exclude older adults and many others who fail to comply to such a narrowly-defined medical conceptualization of ‘normal’ (63). Keywords: aging; aronson; book; medicine; review
Book Review: Ending Ageism or How Not to Shoot Old People by Guest, Aaron (2020) - I would recommend that those in the visual arts (Chapter 2), law (Chapter 5), higher education (Chapter 3), and gerontological fields (Chapters 5 and 6) consider adopting chapters and sections of the book. The book is divided into three sections: Introductions (Preface and Chapter 1), five Special Sessions (Chapters 2-6), and Conclusions/Redress (Chapters 7-8). Keywords: ageism; book; chapter
Book Review: Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work by Chirinos, Carlos (2020) - This book not only focuses on academic issues related to transnational aging and care work, but also highlights the political importance of older women (the main protagonists of this book) as workers, both on the labor market (as producers, e.g., paid work) and in the informal domestic sphere (as reproducers, e.g., unpaid work). Dossa and Coe borrow Stack and Burton’s (1993) definition of “kin work” as “the labor and tasks that a family needs to accomplish to survive from generation to generation” (9). Keywords: aging; book; kin; work
Book Review: Queer Aging in North American Fiction by Pang, Celeste (2020) - Here Hess examines the predominance of the heteronormative timeline in representations of lesbian aging, and situates the narrativization of gay aging in the cultural climate of the Cold War era. Hess states that a chronological approach, despite its linearity, “serves well to provide a historical framework for the presently emerging visibility of queer aging” (10). Keywords: aging; book; hess; queer; representations
Book Review: Older Women Who Work: Resilience, Choice, and Change by Bratun, Urša (2021) - Throughout this volume, we are again reminded that ‘growing’ old is an ongoing process that allows and invites working women to find ways to continue making valuable contributions and to derive meaning from their unique situations. Older Women Who Work: Resilience, Choice, and Change makes an important contribution to the discourse and research on working women from a women’s perspective. Keywords: aging; book; review; women; work
Book Review: Intergenerational Contact Zones: Place-based Strategies for Promoting Social Inclusion and Belonging by Joy, Meghan (2021) - The editors, each immersed in the practice and theory of intergenerational place-making, conceptualize ICZs in the introduction to the volume, urging readers already convinced of the importance of intergenerational programs to think more fully about how the settings in which these programs occur both deepen and sustain intergenerational encounters. ISSN 2374-2267 (online) DOI 10.5195/aa.2021.345 http://anthro-age.pitt.edu 169 Support System is most insightful here, highlighting intricate ways in which national and municipal policy has jointly promoted intergenerational community in urban space. Keywords: book; chapter; iczs; joy; review
Book Review: The Cultural Context of Aging: Worldwide Perspectives, 4th Edition by Oxlund, Bjarke (2021) - Jenny-Anne Bishop and Sue Westwood (Chapter 8) take a closer look at transgender aging, while Joel Michael Reynolds (Chapter 50) writes about disability and aging. With the third edition published in 2009, the number of chapters grew to 45, out of which ten were published in a Web Book format thereby taking advantage of the availability of online publishing. Keywords: aging; book; chapters; edition
Book Review: Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland: Memory, Kinship and Personhood by Shay, Kimberly (2021) - Chapter 6, “Gardens of Memory: Reimagining Home and Nation,” considers ways that sociality and moral personhood are maintained by older Poles, outside the constraints of the formal structures of the third and fourth age dichotomies. Robbins here demonstrates that the ideas of home, family, and remembrances of the Polish nation are an overarching framework through which older Poles across all of the ethnographic sites in the book reproduce ideas of national belonging and maintain their sense of moral personhood. Keywords: aging; book; personhood; poland
Book Review: Indigenous Peoples and Dementia: New Understandings of Memory Loss and Memory Care. by Howell, Britteny M. (2021) - This is likely also due to the nature of the book’s topic; Indigenous dementia spans many different cultural groups across several nations with very different policy-making structures and different ways of remembering. The first section covers the prevalence, causes, and discourse around memory loss and memory care among Indigenous peoples. Keywords: book; dementia; loss; memory; peoples
Book Review: Waiting on Retirement: Aging and Economic Insecurity in Low-Wage Work by de Kramer, Neri (2021) - The subsequent three chapters chronicle the financial challenges of three generations of restaurant workers as they age, told in their own words and contextualized with a treasure trove of historic, economic, and policy facts. Because the restaurant industry is rife with age and sex discrimination, job insecurity significantly increases for restaurant workers of around this age, women in particular. Keywords: aging; book; restaurant; retirement; workers
Pelto, Pertti J. Applied Ethnography: Guidelines for Field Research by Ward, Paul G. (2014) - Participant observation, often considered the foundation of ethnographic research, is discussed noting criticisms of the unstructured nature of this data collection technique. ISSN 2374-2267 (online) DOI 10.5195/ aa.2014.37 http://anthro-age.pitt.edu 79 writing up ethnographic research. Keywords: book; data; research
Book Review: Empowering the Elderly? How ‘Help to Self-Help’ Health Interventions Shape Ageing and Eldercare in Denmark by Ahlness, Ellen (2022) - ISSN 2374-2267 (online) DOI 10.5195/aa.2022.389 http://anthro-age.pitt.edu 71 between citizens and health professionals. After the first two stand-alone chapters, the book is organized into three sections, with each section focusing on a different facet of 1-on-1 encounters between health professionals and older adults in Denmark: “Labor: activity related to the biological process of the human body”; “Work: activity related to the artificial world of structures and objects”; and “Action: activity related to the human condition of plurality.” Keywords: aging; book; clotworthy; health; help; review
Book Review: Culture, Context and Ageing of Older Indians: Narratives from India and Beyond by Chowkhani, Ketaki (2022) - She demonstrates how Indian older adults maintain agency over their lives, like the members of the business communities in Gujarat (Chapter 2) and the elite couples in urban Delhi (Chapter 4). This publication is timely and relevant within aging studies and examines how the ‘successful aging model’ is adopted in various ways, through the eldercare homes, to business families in Gujarat, to elite couples in Delhi, and widowed older adults in Kolkata. Keywords: adults; aging; book; gangopadhyay
Parkes, Colin Murray, and Holly G. Prigerson. Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life by Keilman, Linda J. (2014) - Some of the new developments in the study of grief and bereavement included in this edition are findings related to: magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and mapping of neuroanatomical grief, cellular chemistry and physiological technologies for studying living cells of grieving individuals, finding meaning and purpose after recovery from a significant loss, attachment theory implications, resilience, transitions, recovery, and effective interventions. Price $59.80 (Hardcover) Linda J. Keilman, DNP, GNP-BC It can probably be said that most human beings experience loss at least once in their lifetime, to be possibly followed by grief and/or bereavement. Keywords: bereavement; book; grief
Book Review: Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life by Shea, Jeanne L. (2022) - The research for this book involved eight years of longitudinal fieldwork with older adult Taiwanese immigrants conducted between 2009 and 2017 in both the US and Taiwan. Allowing for an analysis from differing perspectives, the sample included not only Taiwanese immigrants who were still in the US, but also Taiwanese immigrants to the US who had subsequently returned to Taiwan. Keywords: aging; book; taiwan; time
Book Review: Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy: Care and community in Milan and Beyond. by Kretser, Irina (2023) - While throughout the book aging is inevitably interwoven with digital space and smartphones, each chapter of the book reveals different angles from which aging is conceptualized and experienced in Italian society. While at first glance, these activities do not necessarily require digital space, Walton points out that WhatsApp groups facilitate a certain continuation of the relationships formed in these community spaces, which develop in the online setting in other ways than in the offline one, where some individuals might feel shy or inhibited, for instance about speaking Italian, and may be less sociable than in the online environment, in which they may use the forms and practices they like to express emotion and affection and to build and maintain relationships. Keywords: aging; book; chapter; walton
Book Review: Being Single in India: Stories of Gender, Exclusion, and Possibility by Chowkhani, Ketaki (2023) - Sarah Lamb started her ethnographic journey into the lives of single women in India. Examining the question of social identity and belonging, Lamb notes how single women are in limbo because of their existence outside kinship structures. Keywords: book; india; lamb; women
Book Review: Being Dead Otherwise by Marshall, Robert C. (2023) - “The dead in an era without family (ｲｴ亡き時代の死者) (ie naki jidai no shisha)” (18), are very largely the elderly found long after they have died lonely deaths unclaimed and uncared for by any family member, but also increasing numbers of foresightful singletons who know they can expect no support at the end of life from family members. Throughout these chapters, the author tries to answer the following questions: what happens to those people who die disconnected from family (Chapters 1 and 2); how are death and its prospect handled where there is no expectation of family to make these arrangements (Chapter 3 and 4); and how is ritual – the one constant requirement for the eternality of a life within or without a family – refashioned against the backdrop of these socio-demographic changes (Chapter 5 and 6). Keywords: book; dead; family; japan; japanese
Book Review: Troubling Inheritances: Memory, Music and Aging by Singh, Shreyasi (2024) - Based on a study in Liverpool, Sara Cohen, Lisa Shaw and Jacqueline Waldock (Chapter six) document the unique ways in which age and aging are performed, lived and understood through music, and music inheritance (130). Shreyasi Singh Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi shreyasisingh1@gmail.com The volume Troubling Inheritances: Music, Memory, and Aging, edited by Sara Cohen, Line Grenier, and Ros Jennings, presents a compelling exploration of the intricate relationships between music, memory, and aging. Keywords: aging; book; memories; memory; music
Book Review: Foreign Countries of Old Age: East and Southeast European Perspectives on Aging by Domashev, Nikolai (2025) - In chapters ten and eleven, Professor of Russian Language and Literature, Rafaela Božić and Professor of Slavic Literacy, Tatjana Petzer analyze aging in the context of technology. The ethnographic text delineates a dichotomy existing back then between two categories of individuals: those who are regarded as ’old’ yet capable of active engagement in social life, and those who are deemed ‘too old’ and thus unable to work or care for themselves, consequently becoming a constant burden to their families. Keywords: aging; book; chapter; family; review
Book Review: Anthropological Perspectives on Aging by Tripathi, Ashwin (2025) - Contributing towards a more holistic approach towards aging, Cortney Rinker in Chapter Eleven incorporates the role of religion, particularly, Islam, in defining aging bodies in the US, while also including experiences of family caregivers of people with serious illness(s) and of end-of-life care. In Chapter Ten, Jing Wang criticizes the ideas of successful aging but instead of dismissing the concept entirely, she reorients it to include decline and death as meaningful and necessary aspects of the aging process. Keywords: aging; book; chapter; review
Book Review: Retirement Migration and Precarity in Later Life by Coe, Cati (2025) - The book’s main argument is that retirement migrants experience multiple dimensions of precarity, in contrast to the prevailing view that retirement migrants are a privileged group of migrants moving from the Global North to the Global South for pleasure and leisure, like tourists. Precarity has been noticed in the scholarship on retirement migrants, particularly among women, for example, the work of Liesl Gambold (2013). Keywords: book; migrants; migration; retirement
Book Reviews by Briller, Sherri (2012) - Chapters also feature student friendly sections such as chapter summaries and key terms. While Kawano’s overviews of historical transformation are consistently elegant (Chapters One, Two, and Five), the ethnography— in Chapter Three, on the day-to-day organization of GFPS, and in Chapter Four, on ash scattering ceremonies—is unfortunately sometimes rather thin. Keywords: aging; book; chapter; dementia; home; kawano

Family

Book Review: Understanding Families over Time: Research and Policy by Zimmer, Richard (2019) - Throughout the book, it is clear that economic policy affects family structure and disrupts adjustment patterns. Their conclusions and methodologies are also useful for students of family structure and policy in other countries. Keywords: changes; family; policy; review
Review: Holland, Janet and Rosalind Edwards, eds. Understanding Families over Time: Research and Policy. by Zimmer, Richard (2016) - This volume is part of a series issued by Palgrave MacMillan that examines changes in all aspects of family and personal life in the UK. Lower class young men, especially ones who started families early, however, found their lives interrupted, postponed, and diverted by the Recession of 2008 and the Cameron Administration'ʹs austerity policies. Keywords: changes; family; policy
Book Review: Family Caregiving in Aging Populations by Smith, Valerie J (2020) - This may mean they can more easily call upon other relatives for assistance, but not necessarily that more caregivers are available. Hill’s focus on family caregiving (or informal care), rather than on institutional care (or formal care), very well encapsulates today’s situation for older adults facing one or more health problems. Keywords: caregivers; caregiving; family; hill
Role of Cultural Capital and Cultural Reproduction on Youth Development in India: A Generational Perspective by Ganjoo, Simran; Verma, Sunil K. (2021) - Thematic analysis revealed that the older adults in this study perceive that youths are not completely engaged in positive youth development and need to contribute more towards their civic societies. Keywords: Cultural capital; cultural reproduction; positive youth development; India Anthropology & Aging, Vol 42, No 2 (2021), pp. 137-149 ISSN 2374-2267(online) DOI 10.5195/aa.2021.326 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Keywords: adults; development; engagement; family; generation; india; reproduction; role; society; study; values; youth; youth development
Book Review: Welcome to Wherever We Are: A Memoir of Family, Caregiving, and Redemption by Barmon, Christina (2022) - In this memoir, Cohan blurs the lines between academic research on family caregiving and family violence, and her own personal story. The following quote describes how these different positions inform her work: As a sociologist interested in family violence and gender, I knew I had the capacity to see the following, among other things: how family secrets are maintained, how caregiving is gendered, and the myriad ways that individual issues we wrestle with in our private homes are actually connected to the larger issues of family as a social institution and to other social structures. Keywords: caregiving; cohan; family; father
Growing Old in the City: Challenges of Access to and Control of Urban Houses among Older Women in Low-income Suburbs of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe by Hungwe, Chipo (2024) - Abstract This study addresses the struggles for housing among older women, including the meaning attached to ownership and control of urban houses among low-income households. It analyses the extent to which older women in low-income suburbs of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, can age-in-place. Keywords: africa; ageing; areas; bulawayo; children; control; family; house; housing; hungwe; income; ownership; place; urban; women; zimbabwe
Film Review: Ben Jij Bij Mij/Are You With Me by Swinnen, Aagje (2023) - When Joke starts to forget the stanzas, she hums the tune of the song and family members help her fill in the words. It features Joke van den Broek, a 92-year-old former schoolteacher and van Ghesel Grothe’s grandmother, over a period of three years in which she moves from her family home to a long-term care facility because of Alzheimer’s disease. Keywords: dementia; documentary; family; joke; story
Toward a Contextually Valid Measure of Social Support Among Middle-Aged and Older African Americans in a Southern Urban Community by Lehman, Dawn Bodo (2010) - Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2010: 31 (1-2) 14 Features Toward a Contextually Valid Measure of Social Support Among Middle-Aged and Older African Americans in a Southern Urban Community Dawn Bodo Lehman, Ph.D. Director of Education Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging 1603 Orrington Suite 1800 Evanston, IL 60201 dlehman@MatherLifeWays.com Abstract A gap in the literature on social support among middle-aged and older African Americans and limitations in scales measuring social support among this group indicate a need for a new measure of social support that is sensitive to the cultural context in which this population lives. The literature indicates that social support is a multidimensional, fluid phenomenon, i.e., it has many dimensions and each dimension may have significance for individuals and communities at different periods in time and in different geographical locations. Keywords: african; american; church; community; family; new; participants; research; scale; social; study; support

Health

The Myth of Average: Active Senior Citizens in the Aomori Prefecture in Japan by Miyahara, Motohide (2022) - I eagerly accepted the invitation and told him that I would send him written information on the research project and a consent form by post. Methods of Data Gathering, Recording, Analysis, and Representation To ensure focused observation and interaction with selective informants for short-term ethnography (Pink and Morgan 2013), I was careful not to be intrusive by following Mr. Spark’s guidance at the indoor golf hall and conducting non-participant observation of golf players first until I felt the players were ready for my participant observation. ISSN 2374-2267 (online) DOI 10.5195/aa.2022.408 http://anthro-age.pitt.edu indeed why the older adults in this generation refrain from participating in group physical activities, a collaborative support system for individualized purposeful physical pursuits should be developed. Keywords: activity; aomori; ball; citizens; golf; group; hall; health; miyahara; players; research; spark; university
Giving meaning to health:Daily occupations among elderly South Africans by Schatz, Enid (2015) - References: American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA). Although a significant amount of research highlights meaningful activity as a factor for maintaining health and well- being in developed countries, very little empirical work has explored this issue in developing country settings. Keywords: health; occupational; research; therapy

Home

Longing Glances: Photographs from the series "Far from Home" by Young, Bes (2015) - Pokka Pokka is onomatopoeia in Japanese meaning warmth, often used for warmth of heart. Each resident in Pokka Pokka Keywords: aging; home; pokka; staff
Surveillance Entanglements: Digital Data Flows and Ageing Bodies in Motion in the Danish Welfare State by Schwennesen, Nete (2019) - Applying the frame of vital materialism, we can likewise think of digital rehabilitation as constituted through temporal assemblages of human (bodies, professionals) and non-human actors (smartphones, sensors, exercise programs, algorithms, digital interfaces, imaginaries of aging bodies, visions of automatization and cost-efficiency) that are interlinked by the goal of moving and transforming bodies in order to rebuild their functionality. In relation to the theme of energy in this special issue, it provides a fruitful analytical lens with which to explore how energy and force are produced in digital physical rehabilitation programs in Denmark, and the active involvement of non-human agencies in the constitution of bodily movement. Keywords: aging; assemblage; bodies; body; data; digital; home; movement; patients; rehabilitation; technology; time; training
Book Review: Transnational Migration and Home in Older Age by Wolter, Nele (2019) - In the section’s last chapter, Katie Walsh (Chapter 11) sheds light on the life of expatriates growing into old age and constituting ‘home’ after a life of working abroad. Life style migration, as another strategy on the convergence of ageing and mobility, is taken up by Stefan Kordel (Chapter 7) and Kate Botterill (Chapter 8), who write about North European lifestyle migrants that search for a new and ‘idealised home’ in Spain and Thailand respectively. Keywords: ageing; chapter; home; migration
Respect, Gratitude, and Closure: A Trip of Honor and Remembrance by Castronovo, Lynette M.; Dalstrom, Matthew; Messer, Brandie (2022) - To this day, many Vietnam Veterans have yet to talk about their Vietnam experiences with anyone; this prohibition of discussing traumatic events both in Vietnam and upon returning home may have limited the desire to revisit war memories (1985). While Veterans may have had a personal welcome home by friends and family, many Vietnam Veterans never felt welcomed home by their country. Keywords: aging; experience; gratitude; home; homecoming; memorials; trip; veterans; vetsroll; vietnam; war
Social and Spatial Aspects of Loneliness: Challenges to Belong and Acquiring a Sense of Home in a Senior Housing Facility in Denmark by Steno, Anne Mia (2023) - For Grethe, as for many other residents, loneliness became more pronounced after moving in. Such moments have created a sense of community and belonging that many residents have spoken about long afterward. Keywords: facility; feeling; home; housing; loneliness; new; residents; room; sense; space; staff; william

Adults

Response 1 to "Towards a Gerontoludic Manifesto" by Lynch, Caitrin; Vitols, Maruta (2015) - Third, video games offer older adults an opportunity for community. Massive Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs), in particular, supply a virtual space for older adults to engage in communal activities, including but not limited to chatting, flirting, forming friendships, and exploring different identities through role playing. Keywords: adults; aging; games; manifesto
Response 2 to "Towards a Gerontoludic Manifesto" by Rubinstein, Robert L.; Brazda, Michael (2015) - Despite the fact that one–fourth of older adults may utilize electronic games, it is difficult for older adults to “out” themselves as gamers. Another point made by this paper is that the gaming industry finds older adults somehow toxic and does not develop games or market specifically to them, reflecting widespread cultural values that stigmatize and denigrate older adults. Keywords: adults; games
Review: What Older Americans Think: Interest Groups and Aging Policy (Christine L. Day) by Wagner, Jennifer A. (2015) - The first two chapters provide a historical overview of the social movements that brought older adults into the political interest group arena such as the beginning of Medicare and Social Security, as well as interest groups such as the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) and the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). The purpose of this book is to provide a now historical account of the political rise of older adults as a special interest group and what makes them so unique and powerful. Keywords: adults; interest
AFTERWORD. Situating Time, Futurity, and Aging in the Pandemic by Taylor, Janelle S. (2020) - With important exceptions (such as Itzel and Ricardo, and others similarly “busy” pursuing their visions of successful aging), many older adults experience time as involving a great deal of waiting. Lockdowns imposed in an effort to stop the spread of the virus have forced millions of all ages to share the experience that has long been common among older adults, of being homebound with limited mobility. Keywords: adults; aging; experience; time
Book Review: Late-Life Homelessness: Experiences of Disadvantage and Unequal Aging by Glasser, Irene (2024) - I have observed that when aging in place surveys of older adults occur, the researchers rarely think of entering homeless shelters, transitional housing for the formerly unhoused, or community meal sites for people living in poverty, despite the high proportion of older adults within these settings. As a homelessness researcher and ally of unhoused populations, I often ask myself: ‘where are the specialized gerontological services for older adults within this homelessness milieu? Keywords: adults; aging; homelessness
An Anthropological Perspective on "Occupation": A Study of Older Adults' Motivations for Learning and Using Computer Technology by Harrod, Molly (2015) - Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2009: 30 (2) 29 Features An anthropological perspective on “occupation”: A study of older adults’ motivations for learning and using computer technology Molly Harrod, PhD Post-doctoral Fellow, Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence Daily occupations consist of activities that provide some type of capital, be it social, cultural, or symbolic (Bourdieu, 1977) to the individuals involved. This study looked at such socially and culturally constructed motivations in addition to the hopes and fears older adults may face when they are learning and engaging in new activities. Keywords: adults; computer; occupational

Women

Book Review: How Men Age: What Evolution Reveals about Male Health and Mortality by Zimmer, Richard (2019) - Older men who survive risky behaviors, despite losing bodily strength, have developed more skills that allow them to survive and succeed. He notes, for example, the lack of research on gay populations, both male and female, and raises the intriguing question as to whether pair bonding among gay men would affect their mortality in the same way as it does with straight men (127 e.s.). Keywords: bribiescas; men; women

Work

Curriculum Vitae: A photographic essay of elderly urban workers from Peru by Ramos Bonilla, Gabriela; Tirado Ratto, Erika Jaclyn (2018) - The proportion of men with a retirement pension is almost the double (49.2%) than that of women (26.9%), while more than half the total of older adults continue working. The “successful and active aging” analytical framework has been used by some of these research to highlight the capacity of older adults in contributing to their families, and societies, through work. Keywords: aging; ramos; vol; work; working
Winter Fires by Godley, Mik; Matarasso, François (2013) - After this, Mik’s approach was exploratory, even experimental, as he tried different ways of capturing something of the sitter without the usual opportunity to meet them. 30 PORTFOLIO WINTER FIRES Art and Agency in Old Age Portraits by Mik Godley From the book by François Matarasso 31 PORTFOLIO 32 33 PORTFOLIO PORTFOLIO 34 35 Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2013: 34 (1) Keywords: mik; work

Review

Book Review: Aging in World History by Ikels, Charlotte (2017) - Charlotte Ikels Case Western Reserve University (Professor of Anthropology Emerita) This work is the latest publication in Routledge’s Themes in World History series. Charlotte Ikels Case Western Reserve University (Professor of Anthropology Emerita) Anthropology & Aging, Vol 38, No 2 (2017), pp. Keywords: aging; review; troyansky
Book Review: Macroeconomic Aspects of Aging and Retirement of College and University teachers. Indo-French perspecctives. by Grendell, Ruth N. (2018) - Although a variety of retirement plans and pension systems were created in developed countries several years ago, little attention has been given to retirement assistance in India, Africa, and other developing nations. World-wide, many older adults are not actively involved in their retirement planning and express they prefer to age with security and dignity and to continue to participate in their societies as citizens with full rites. Keywords: retirement; review
Film Review: Cracked: A New Light on Dementia by Chivers, Sally (2020) - Characters with dementia frequently come across as isolated, except http://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ Film review | Chivers | Anthropology & Aging Vol 41 Cracked’s inventive theatre devices allow a ‘show don’t tell’ evocation of pivotal themes that run through dementia experiences, as can often be found in good ethnography. Keywords: aging; dementia; review
Book Review: Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Sexualities: Multidisciplinary International Perspectives. by Samanta, Tannistha (2020) - Yet, it adds significantly to the understanding of the way sexual lives of institutionalized older adults remain embedded in highly regulatory regimes that perceive sexual behaviors “as potentially problematic or even pathological” (165). Elizabeth Barry (Chapter 5) uses Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway to think imaginatively about menopause and later life sexuality. Keywords: aging; chapter; gerontology; review; volume
Book Review: Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession: Global Perspectives by Frank, Jacquelyn B. (2020) - These issues are then again discussed throughout the four sections of the volume, that address different aspects of successful aging, with each of these four sections including stand-out chapters that are particularly thought-provoking. Taylor’s research critically analyzes commonly held notions of “personhood” which challenge the value of “agelessness and permanent personhood” that is central to many definitions of successful aging. Keywords: aging; elders; review
Book Review: The Cambridge Handbook of Kinship by Kretser, Irina (2020) - The body becomes a domain where the ‘social’ and the ‘biological’ merge, as it embodies, reflects, and materializes kinship relations. The book consists of six parts and opens with three cases, focusing on issues of assistant reproductive technologies, of kinship and citizenship and of adoption and private rehoming of a child, thus immediately immersing the reader in the complexities of modern kinship and pointing out to some of the themes that will be dealt with in the rest of the volume. Keywords: biological; cambridge; chapter; kinship; review
Book Review: Beyond Filial Piety: Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies by Diodati, Francesco (2021) - Shea, Moore, and Zhang discern important continuities with the findings in Ikels’s volume about the ways in which, in this geographical area, demographic change and welfare transformations continue to affect care practices and support for the aged as well as challenge the understandings of filial piety and obligations toward old age within communities, families, and individuals (2). As the editors state in the introduction, traditional Confucian ideas of filial piety that prescribe adult children to fulfill their obligations to respect, obey and care for their elderly parents have become increasingly more difficult to put into practice, given the unprecedented acceleration of population aging in East Asian societies (1). Keywords: aging; caregiving; east; piety; review
Book Review: Preventing Dementia? Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age by Vana, Noa (2022) - In fact, Bell argues that the most astonishing part of the preventive turn in dementia discourse and research is not its possible effectiveness in relation to dementia prevention— The Lancet Report (Livingston et al. 2017) that prompted the publication of this edited volume claims that one-third of dementia cases might be preventable if nine risk factors were better managed—but rather, the fact that the whole discussion around prevention started so late when compared to other health conditions. Inspired by Niklas Luhmann and Bruno Latour who consider risks as preventable social phenomena (Luhmann 2005) that require a long and tedious “chain of translations” (Latour 1999), Leanza writes about the “improbability of dementia prevention” (94). Keywords: aging; chapter; dementia; new; prevention; review

Chapter

Review: Sprott, Richard L. (Volume Editor), Antonucci, Toni C. (Series Editor). Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics: Genetics. by Kesterke, Matt J. (2016) - Chapter 3 begins to look at environmental factors related to longevity, focusing on the role of oxygen. The chapter authors rightfully call for further research and standardization on the topic, and this call is mirrored in Chapter 4, which reviews the intersection of dietary changes, gene mutations, and medical intervention and their effect on longevity. Keywords: aging; chapter; longevity
Sugar, Judith, Rieksa, Robert, Holstege, Henry, & Farber, Michael. Introduction to Aging: A Positive, Interdisciplinary Approach by Lewis, Denise C. (2014) - The authors also situate the information with a strong historical context as they describe the evolution of aging and perceptions of older people from colonial times and the industrial age. Anthropology & Aging Anthropology & Aging, Vol 35, No 1 (2014), pp. Keywords: aging; chapter; textbook
Book Review: Gender and Age/Aging in Popular Culture: Representations in Film, Music, Literature, and Social Media by De Sutter, Femke (2024) - For example, older adults are used as central point for mockery and anger in Brazilian politics, while older women are not liable for Bolsonaro’s victory in 2018. The volume covers a broad array of subjects, ranging from aging masculinity in film (Chapter 1 and 2) to older women in music (Chapter 5 and 6). Keywords: aging; chapter; culture; film; gender

Participants

Portfolio: Ode to Odenabe: Intergenerational Storytelling and the Art of Making. by Chazan, May (2023) - Ultimately, this project is creating a collection of counter- narratives about aging and aging futures; in doing so, it is a response to calls from prominent scholars in the field.14 By centring lesser-told stories of queer, trans, Indigenous, racialized, and/or disabled aging, we capture diverse experiences of later life and multiple ways of envisioning the future at all ages and stages. It wasn’t until I was a parent in my 40s, engaging in intergenerational storytelling research in Nogojiwanong, that I began to http://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ Anthropology & Aging Keywords: aging; chazan; doi; futures; making; odenabe; online; participants; research; stories

Japan

Demographic Challenges for the 21st Century: Population Ageing and the Immigration “Problem” in Japan by Takenaka, Ayumi (2012) - Although Japan may have lost the economic might and awe of the 1980s, there is one area in which it still has a lead: population ageing. Today, Japan is ageing faster than any other nation, with the world’s highest proportion of adults over 65 (23%), followed by Italy and Germany (20.4%), and one of the lowest ratios of children under 15 (13%). Keywords: ageing; foreign; immigration; japan; ministry; policy; population; students

From Being to Ontogenetic Becoming: Commentary on Analytics of the Aging Body by Ricart, Ender (2013) - When applying the three bodies or cyborg analytic to the study of aging bodies the body will be ontologized as a coming into relation of two otherwise disparate entities such as the social and individual, mind and body, human and machine, nature and culture. When applying the cyborg model of analysis to the study of aging bodies and assistive technologies there is a tendency to regard such technologies as supplement Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2013: 34 (3) 55 Ender Ricart From Being to Ontogenetic Becoming or bodily prosthesis, incorporated into the aging body itself, blurring supposed boundaries between human and machine to form an age-specific cyborg. Keywords: aging; bodies; body; cyborg; individual; model; new; social; society; technology

Body

The Aging Body by Danely, Jason (2013) - Ricart brings a critical perspective to some of the fundamental paradigms of the body in anthropology, and suggests ways in which chronotopes of aging might help us to expand and develop the field even more. The temporality marked by the aging body may be linked to changes in attitudes and self- perceptions, as in James Hillman’s vivid description from his bestseller The Force of Character and the Lasting Life (1999): Keywords: aging; body

Technology

Technology a Co-Actor in Kinning and ‘Desirable’ Aging? by Kamala Naganathan , Gomathy (2024) - As the ethnographic case demonstrates, successful aging with technology goes beyond use of assistive technology for physical health. Further, the gardeners used digital technologies such as Facebook and YouTube to learn to grow exotic varieties beyond the seeds supplied by the government. Keywords: aging; gardening; india; kinship; technology

Death

Let Your Last Footprint be a Green One by Rumble, Hannah Jane (2016) - Greening Death: Reclaiming burial practices and restoring our tie to the Earth. Natural Burial: Landscape, Practice and Experience. Keywords: burial; death; footprint

Film

Film Review: Manu by Wong, Karen Lok Yi (2020) - Manu. Manu. Keywords: emmanuelle; film; manu
Film Review: Half Elf by Erspamer, Alyssa (2024) - In a written reflection on his film, Magnussón (2021) reveals that Trausti suffered from dementia towards his last years, including during the making of the film. As Trausti approaches his 100th year and his thus increasingly inevitable demise, his desire to be connected with elves intensifies, as he seeks to be recognised as a “Grand Elf,” or at least re-baptised as “Half-Elf.” Keywords: elf; film; magnussón; trausti
Film Review: Death of the One Who Knows by Zaluchu, Fotarisman; Adriansyah, Vicky Rifai (2024) - As time progressed and Lumbaa grew older, there came new generations with new understandings. In the film, viewers witness Lumbaa holding on to the belief that contemporary life is always connected with ancestors. Keywords: ancestors; film; lumbaa

Men

Wentzell, Emily A. Maturing Masculinities: Aging, Chronic Illness, and Viagra in Mexico by Lamb, Sarah (2014) - Few men or doctors attributed their ED to biology alone (even those 11 percent of men in the study using medical ED treatment) but rather were likely to understand erectile difficulty holistically, drawing on composite understandings of health and sexuality that incorporated biomedical, humoral, and emotion-based perspectives. Price $84.95 (hardback), $23.95 (paperback) Sarah Lamb, PhD Maturing Masculinities explores the ways men in Mexico faced with aging, chronic illness, and decreased erectile function incorporate these experiences into their conceptions of themselves as men. Keywords: aging; men; wentzell

Disease

Review: Aging Bones: A Short History of Osetoporosis (Gerald N. Grob) by Kesterke, Matthew (2015) - The final two chapters of the book seamlessly tie the multiple threads together to present an exhaustive and cohesive account of how the myriad of approaches to osteoporosis research attained their current position. This book, part of John Hopkins’ series ‘Biographies of Disease’, traces the origins, attitudes, diagnosis, and treatments of osteoporosis from clinical and cultural viewpoints. Keywords: aging; disease; osteoporosis

Authors

Response by Kao, Philip (2015) - Rather, attention to representations of old age and aging in films exposes stereotypes regarding the elderly and unrealistic attitudes towards the aging process more generally. The authors argue that films, as instruments of mass media, often deny, invalidate and depoliticize the experience of aging, dignity in the human condition, and subjectivities in the making. Keywords: aging; authors; saddle

Project

Fascinating Wisdom: "The Solon Senior Project" by Takács, Judy (2013) - What if every pucker and fold were celebrated and every fi ne line that appeared along the path to old age welcomed with the glee of having leaped the next hurdle? What if we as a culture saw the physical markings of old age as a badge of courage awarded to one who has gained the precious wisdom that comes from a life thoroughly lived? Keywords: project; senior; wisdom

Gerontology

Book Review: Adult-Gerontology Practice Guidelines by Jayaraman, Nirmala (2023) - Jill C. Cash and Cheryl A. Glass, both nurse practitioners, offer a comprehensive review book and set of guidelines to inform future healthcare professionals and current practitioners about the nuanced changes in wellness and illness experienced by older adults (Cash and Glass 2015). Microsoft Word - Jayaramanx.docx Book Review Review of Cash, Jill C., and Cheryl A. Glass (Editors). Keywords: cash; gerontology; glass; guidelines

Migrants

Book Review: Chinese Senior Migrants and the Globalization of Retirement. by Yan , Zhe (2024) - While in Chinese Senior Migrants and the Globalization of Retirement, Newendorp demonstrates the agency and remarkable resilience of this generation of Chinese senior migrants, I think the picture presented in the book is overly optimistic given the social and economic precarity that comes with aging for many older Americans, if they have the chance to retire at all. The performance of cultural identity and the development of community ties instill a resilience in older Chinese migrants in the face of the challenges that come with living at the social and economic margins of American society. Keywords: author; chinese; migrants

Aage

From the Editor by Jones, Kim (2010) - Our table at the AAA is a great place to check out books and past issues of this journal, get tee-shirts, and chat with AAGE members and authors of AAGE-sponsored books. It is equally rewarding to find new members early in their careers who demonstrate passion and a desire to serve the discipline. Keywords: aage; aging

Games

Reply to Responses by De Schutter, Bob; Vanden Abeele, Vero (2015) - For example, De Schutter & Vanden Abeele (2008, 2010) addresses ‘connectedness’ and “contribution” as themes for digital games aimed at older players. Reply to responses Bob De Schutter1 & Vero Vanden Abeele2 1 Miami University contact: b@bobdeschutter.be 2 KU Leuven, e-Media Lab, Belgium contact: vero.vandenabeele@kuleuven.be Abstract Responses to commentary, “Toward a gerontoludic manifesto,” by Bob De Schutter and Vero Vanden Abeele in Anthropology & Aging Vol36, no.2, the special issue on “Aging the Technoscape,” followed by a reply by the commentary authors. Keywords: games; vanden

Media

Review: Aging, Media, and Culture (C. Lee Harrington, Denise D. Bielby and R. Bardo, eds.) by Grendell, Ruth (2015) - Although there is no mention of using the text as a potential resource in the classroom, the content could be an excellent platform for group discussions and recommendations for innovative methods for research, interventions and development of policies on aging issues. In addition, the text would be a valuable resource for studying the lives of future aging generations that are greatly influenced by the media and virtual realities. Keywords: aging; media; university

Disability

Book Review: Disability and Ageing: Towards a Critical Perspective by Wallace, Yvonne (2022) - Leahy notes, as have others (Grenier, Griffin, and McGrath 2020) that the structuring of disability policy and programs separates disabled individuals from peer groups. Disability and Ageing: Keywords: aging; disability; leahy

Individual

Review: Aging, the Individual, and Society, 10th Edition (Susan M. Hillier and Georgia M. Barrow) by Reed, Rachel Sona (2015) - College BookstoreWholesale $182.50, Student List Price $245.95 Rachel Sona Reed, MA Freelance Writer and Editor The Instructor’s Edition of Aging, the Individual, and Society provides a comprehensive introduction to the multidisciplinary field of aging studies, particularly for college students interested in pursuing Gerontology. College BookstoreWholesale $182.50, Student List Price $245.95 Rachel Sona Reed, MA Freelance Writer and Editor http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://www.library.pitt.edu/ http://www.pitt.edu/ http://www.library.pitt.edu/articles/digpubtype/index.html http://www.upress.pitt.edu/upressIndex.aspx Anthropology & Aging Keywords: aging; individual; text

Dance

Argentine Tango: social dance health ‘to’ you by Skinner, Jonathan (2014) - Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2014: 34 (4) 260 Argentine Tango social dance health ‘to’ you Text and Photographs by Jonathan Skinner Portfolio Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2014: 34 (4) 261 Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2014: 34 (4) 262 Argentine Tango: social dance health ‘to’ you These three photos evoke the plaint of life. In this case, social dance transports us to Argentina in the 1940s. Keywords: aging; dance; tango

Cancer

Book Reviews by Briller, Sherylyn (2010) - Abel and Subramanian make clear that there is an urgent need for post operative and post chemotherapy aftercare therapies for women otherwise “cured” of breast cancer. When Abel, a historian of medicine and public health, met Subramanian, a medical sociologist and a women’s studies scholar whose own mother had died of breast cancer, they began to converse about breast cancer, its treatments and side effects. Keywords: abel; animals; breast; cancer

Play

Theater review: The Other by Carlin, Leslie (2020) - In fact, within the confines of the play’s reality, Kathleen quite literally poses the query to her own, younger self in a surreal situation that finds the two women – older Kathleen, younger Kathleen – in conversation on a park bench one mild autumn day. Older Kathleen eventually convinces the younger woman to accept her for who she claims to be: her own future self. Keywords: kathleen; moodie; play

Seniors

Book Review: Older Tourist Behavior and Marketing Tools by Boroch, Robert (2018) - Marketing to Older Tourists: The Supply-Side Perspective. Analysis of qualitative data enabled the context to be expanded so as to: ‘(a) […] provide an original perspective of older tourists’ characteristics from a supply-side point of view; (b) […] offer useful insights into companies’ marketing strategies and practices regarding older tourists; (c) Keywords: seniors; tourist; vigolo

Aaq

From the Editor by Danely, Jason (2012) - When AAQ recieved a unique submission looking at intergenerational communication in Mongolia and America, I decided to extend the special issue on Aging in East Asia to Part II. Suzuki’s ethnographic work on decorative leaf industry in the town of Kamikatsu and Taniguchi’s study of decorative traditional textiles both show how older adults’ have been able to leverage practical knowledge, experience, and labor in ways that have expanded their skills, created opportunities for new forms of intergenerational communication, and brought about changes not only in wealth, but also in local infrastructure and the social capital of the community. Keywords: aaq; aging

And$

Review: Prendergast, David and Garattini, Chiara. (editors). Aging and the Digital Life Course. by Grendell, Ruth N. (2016) - within$ the$ later$ life$ course”.$$The$collection$of$studies$explores$a$wide$range$of$topics$including$social$media,$robotics,$chronic$ disease$selfHcare$management,$caregiving,$gaming,$migration$and$data$inheritance.$ $The$guiding$themes$ were:$“People$want$to$focus$on$what$they$can$do,$not$what$they$cannot;$Aging$in$$place$means$more$than$ staying$at$home;$Health$perception$is$not$an$objective$quality;$People$often$make$the$progression$of$aging$ by$watershed$events;$Healthy$aging$is$inextricably$linked$to$social$participation;$and$Health$care$networks$ are$large$and$increasingly$complex”.$$ The$chapters$are$grouped$under$three$sections$that$designate$topics$on$(1)$Connections,$Networks$ and$Interactions;$(2)$Health$and$Wellbeing;$and$(3)$Life$Course$Transitions.$$The$emphasis$of$chapters$in$ section$one$is$on$the$use$of$technologies$for$maintaining$social$contact$with$family$and$friends.$$The$findings$ indicated$ that$ engagement$ in$ the$use$of$ complex$ technology$by$older$adults$depends$upon$ the$ context$ where$learning$takes$place.$Unless$people$had$previous$contact$with$computers$in$the$workplace$prior$to$ retirement,$only$basic$technology$was$used.$$Informal$peerHpeer$learning$and$games$are$more$effective$than$ formal$classes$in$building$confidence$in$using$the$devices.$$Barriers$to$using$computers,$tablets$and$smart$ phones$were$unsatisfactory$past$experiences$and$dissatisfaction$with$inadequate$technical$support.$$Costs$ for$purchasing$and$maintaining$the$equipment$were$also$cited.$ The$ chapters$ related$ to$ health$ and$ wellbeing$ centered$ on$ maintaining$ social$ connections$ and$ remaining$ independent.$ $ Technical$ devices$ that$ aid$ people$ with$ behavioral$ change$ and$ selfHcare$ management$ of$ chronic$ diseases$ and$ telehealth$ monitoring$ are$ currently$ focused$ on$ longHdistance$ physiological$monitoring.$$Attention$to$the$psychological$and$social$factors$is$needed$to$avoid$the$‘Iceberg$ Effect’$that$fails$to$develop$an$effective$relationship$when$the$technologies$are$viewed$as$‘companions’$in$ the$selfHmanagement$process.$$$ The$chapters$related$to$Life$Course$Transitions$provide$ information$on$a$global$ trend$of$moving$ away$from$familiar$settings$to$other$more$economical$areas$and$countries;$the$development$of$digital$social$ networks;$motivation$ and$engagement$ in$digital$ Keywords: and$; the$

Harrington

Review: Meyer, Madonna Harrington. Grandmothers at Work: Juggling Families and Jobs. by Reed, Rachel Sona (2016) - But by illuminating a distinct stage of some women’s life cycle, Meyer creates an opportunity for other scholars to delve deeper into the complex personal and social effects of managing multiple, conflicting roles. Microsoft Word - ReedBRfDEC.docx Book Review Meyer, Madonna Harrington. Keywords: harrington; meyer

Disaster

Review: Greenberg, Michael, R. Protecting Seniors against Environmental Disasters: From Hazards and Vulnerability to Prevention and Resilience. by Wagner, Jennifer A. (2016) - Greenberg provides a summary of data on disasters and relief efforts from 1950-‐‑1979. Greenberg cites Renya and Brainerd’s decision making model in determining older adults’ reactions to disaster and predictions for their action in a crisis. Keywords: disaster; greenberg

Contemporary

Book Review: Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction by Bravo, Arthur Ivan (2022) - As Armengol explicates in his introduction to the volume, remedying the dearth of scholarship on aging masculinities entails more than merely considering the discrepancy between this ever-growing demographic and the relative lack of scholarly attention directed at it. The second part of the volume focuses on the representation of aging masculinity specifically in popular fiction. Keywords: aging; contemporary; fiction; masculinity; volume

Asia

From the Editor by Danely, Jason (2012) - Wonjee Cho and Denise C. Lewis’s article on South Korean aging points out the articulations and dissonances between embodied subjective feelings of aging, cultural beliefs about temporality and political categories of aging. While other countries around the world are experiencing population aging, they have done so at a much slower pace. Keywords: aging; asia

Grand

Grand Performances: Building Self and Social Ties through Theatrical Performance by de Montigny, Stephanie May (2015) - ISSN 2374-2267 (online) DOI 10.5195/aa.2015.82 http://anthro-age.pitt.edu 25 Such experiences and stories grow out of personal and intimate engagement with the Grand Opera House. For people who perform at the richly historic Grand Opera House of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, narratives attach to place (Basso 1996); they build memories and shape understandings of self and community. Keywords: grand; montigny; oshkosh

Epilogue

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