Pub Date : 2017-03-27DOI: 10.3384/IJAL.1652-8670.16-291
M. Bengtsson, Marita Flisbäck
In this article, we argue that we will reach a deepened understanding of what the retirement process means for individuals if existential meaning is the centre of attention. The data consist of qua ...
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Pub Date : 2017-03-27DOI: 10.3384/IJAL.1652-8670.16-305
A. Abellán, Julio Pérez, R. Pujol, G. Sundström, M. Jegermalm, B. Malmberg
We used national surveys to study how older persons’ changing household patterns influence the gender balance of caregiving in two countries with distinct household structures and cultures, Spain and Sweden. In both countries, men and women provide care equally often for their partner in couple-only households. This has become the most common household type among older persons in Spain and prevails altogether in Sweden. This challenges the traditional dominance of young or middle-aged women as primary caregivers in Spain. In Sweden, many caregivers are old themselves. We focus attention to partners as caregivers and the consequences of changing household structures for caregiving, which may be on the way to gender equality in both countries, with implications for families and for the public services.
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Pub Date : 2017-02-13DOI: 10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.16-290
C. Searing, Hannah Zeilig
Fine Lines is a study investigating the language used in adverts for female facial cosmetics (excluding makeup) in UK Vogue magazine. The study queries whether this has been affected by the introduction and rise in popularity of minimally invasive aesthetic procedures to alleviate the signs of facial ageing. The contemporary cultural landscape is explored: this includes the ubiquitous nature of advertising as well as the growth of the skincare market. Emergent thematic analysis of selected advertisements showed a change in the language used before the introduction of the aesthetic procedures (1992 and 1993) compared with later years (2006 and 2007). We have noted a decline in numbers of advertisements within some themes (nourishing in particular showed a marked fall in number of mentions) while others have shown increases (those offering protection against UV radiation and pollution increased by 50% in the later data set). The remaining thematic categories were relatively constant over the period of study, though the emphasis shifted within the themes over time. This article concludes by asserting that the language has changed, that the vocabulary has become more inventive and that skincare products appear to be marketed as complementary to cosmetic procedures. In addition, some of the products appear to be being marketed as luxury items, something to be bought because owning and using it gives you pleasure and bestows prestige on the owner.
Fine Lines是一项调查英国《Vogue》杂志女性面部化妆品（不包括化妆品）广告中使用语言的研究。这项研究质疑这是否受到了微创美容手术的引入和普及的影响，以缓解面部衰老的迹象。探索当代文化景观：这包括无处不在的广告性质以及护肤品市场的增长。对选定广告的紧急主题分析显示，与后来几年（2006年和2007年）相比，在引入美学程序之前（1992年和1993年）使用的语言发生了变化。我们注意到，一些主题的广告数量有所下降（尤其是营养广告，提及次数显著下降），而其他主题的广告则有所增加（在后来的数据集中，提供紫外线辐射和污染防护的广告增加了50%）。在研究期间，其余专题类别相对不变，尽管随着时间的推移，重点在专题内发生了变化。这篇文章的结论是，语言已经发生了变化，词汇变得更有创造性，护肤品似乎是作为化妆品程序的补充进行营销的。此外，一些产品似乎是作为奢侈品进行营销的，因为拥有和使用它会给你带来快乐，并给主人带来声望。
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Pub Date : 2016-11-28DOI: 10.3384/IJAL.1652-8670.11_1A
M. Mccall
Whitfield and Baker have done an outstanding job in bringing together an excellent group of scholars to both review and critique the current state of knowledge about aging among various ethnic minority groups in the United States. Despite its singular focus on the United States, it provides scholars and practitioners with up-to-date work, both quantitative and qualitative, in various fields of aging, as well as recommends much future work to be done. This comprehensive review covers four parts: Psychology of Minority Aging; Public Health/Biology of Minority Aging; Social Work and Minority Aging; and Sociology of Minority Aging. The 33 chapters, written by 69 authors, address a variety of topics ranging from stress and coping, to religion and spirituality, to genetics, to caregiving, to aging in place and public policy. The inclusion of both established and emerging scholars is a good model for approaches to this field. We need both experienced and new perspectives on the experiences of aging among minority groups. There are many strengths to this compendium. The intersectional approach is key, and the recommendation to disentangle the constructs of minority group, race, ethnicity and culture is critical to the field as these
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Pub Date : 2016-11-28DOI: 10.3384/IJAL.1652-8670.11_1B
S. Teo
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Pub Date : 2016-11-28DOI: 10.3384/IJAL.1652-8670.11_1C
D. Willis
What is wisdom? What does it mean to our lives and how might we understand its practice as we age? Is there something special, even numinous, about ageing that confers upon us a power with deep insights into family and society? It has been a given in most cultures that becoming an elder means possessing something others who are younger do not have, a fount of experience that enables us to make judgments, model action, and practice behaviors that demonstrate intelligence, perception, and acumen. Elders are treated with special respect and listened to carefully in many societies, feted grandly on 60, 88, and 100 birthdays. Yet there have been ominous developments during the 20 centurywhich have led to discounting these traditional ideas about wisdom. This change in how older people are treated in post-modern societies has also meant a challenge to the traditional beliefs and practices of ageing conferring wisdom, special insights, and powerful judgments. As the author of this important book Ricca Edmondson has noted, we have seen how ‘‘public discourses impoverish understanding of the last stages of life.’’ The power of meaning-making, respect for the roles of those in the latter stages of life,
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Pub Date : 2016-09-08DOI: 10.3384/IJAL.1652-8670.16302
E. Tolhurst
Critical evaluation is undertaken of social scientific conceptualisations of dementia in relation to ageing. In response to the societal tendency to associate dementia with old age, there is a growing body of literature that seeks to explicate the particular challenges faced by younger people with the condition. While recognition of the distinctive impacts presented by dementia at different ages is crucial, an age-related conceptual model that focuses on a lifecourse divide at age 65 is problematic: it promulgates a sense that younger people with dementia have ‘‘unique’’ experiences, while dementia for older people is typical. This also reflects a societal ageism, under which concerns are focused on those situated within ‘‘productive adulthood.’’ Moreover, a straightforward chronological marker cannot adequately represent a social world shaped by significant demographic changes. A more textured appreciation of ageing and dementia is required to help articulate how distinctive experiences emerge across the lifecourse.
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Pub Date : 2016-06-27DOI: 10.3384/IJAL.1652-8670.10_2E
M. Mccall
{"title":"Kathrin Komp & Stina Johansson (eds.) (2015). Population Ageing from a Lifecourse Perspective. Critical and International Approaches. Bristol: Policy Press, 258 pp. ISBN 978 1 44731 071 6 (hardcover)","authors":"M. Mccall","doi":"10.3384/IJAL.1652-8670.10_2E","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3384/IJAL.1652-8670.10_2E","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39906,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Ageing and Later Life","volume":"10 1","pages":"85-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69505266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-02-12DOI: 10.3384/IJAL.1652-8670.10_2B
D. Tadić
{"title":"Ulla Kriebernegg, Roberta Maierhofer, Barabara Ratzenböck (eds.) (2014). Alive and Kicking at All Ages: Cultural Constructions of Health and Life Course Identity. Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript Verlag, 324 pp. ISBN 978 3 8376 2582 0 (paperback)","authors":"D. Tadić","doi":"10.3384/IJAL.1652-8670.10_2B","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3384/IJAL.1652-8670.10_2B","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39906,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Ageing and Later Life","volume":"10 1","pages":"99-101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69505176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-02-11DOI: 10.3384/IJAL.1652-8670.10_2C
G. Sundström, M. Á. Tortosa
Vern L. Bengtson, with Norella M. Putney and Susan Harris (2015). Families and Faith: How Religion Is Passed Down across Generations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 267 pp. ISBN 978 0199 9486 59 (hardcover)
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