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From the Inside Looking Out - Competing Ideas About Growing Old (Paperback)
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From the Inside Looking Out - Competing Ideas About Growing Old (Paperback)
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In From The Inside Looking Out, Auger, Tedford-Litle and
Wallace-Allen seek to overcome the "us" and "them" dichotomy that
characterizes much of the literature on aging. By asking older
people to talk about their experiences and treating this
information as valuable, the authors have presented a tool that can
be used to begin such a process. This second edition documents the
lived experiences of older persons obtained from a series of focus
group discussions and interviews across Nova Scotia. Individuals
compare their realities of growing old with the often-theoretical
assumptions of gerontologists and specialists who claim knowledge
of the aging experience. In this field of study, there are few
instances where the voices of older persons are heard, other than
as consumers of various programs and services. Furthermore, the
voices of Indigenous and African-Canadians are typically unheard.
Topics covered include health care, life satisfaction, death and
dying, end of life decisions, cultural differences in the aging
process, spirituality and religion, ageism and discrimination, and
the critique of the many stereotypes of growing older.
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