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Later Life - Exploring Ageing through Literature (Hardcover)
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Later Life - Exploring Ageing through Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
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Later Life views older age as a valuable stage of life and argues
for the centrality of self-making to the quality of later life.
Aiming to enrich an understanding of ageing as the unfolding
process in which people try to negotiate vulnerabilities of their
bodies and manage mortality, it explores the conditions for
pursuing the search for knowledge of oneself in later life. This
new book, with the help of literary examples, presents factors both
supporting and hindering the quality of the experience of later
life. It demonstrates how wondering, courage and habit sustain the
self-making in older age. After illustrating that the process of
ageing also imposes ordeals, the book depicts remedies needed to
overcome boredom, bitterness and sadness, three torments caused by
the age-specific sense of time. It is essential reading not only
for academics and professionals in age studies, sociology of
ageing, gerontology and health care, but also for a general
audience. The book's focus on the experiences of later life will
appeal to the reader interested in understanding the complexities
of ageing and in enhancing the quality of later life, while its
reliance on literary illustrations will be appreciated by lovers of
literature.
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