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New Challenges to Ageing in the Rural North - A Critical Interdisciplinary Perspective (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
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New Challenges to Ageing in the Rural North - A Critical Interdisciplinary Perspective (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: International Perspectives on Aging, 22
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This book provides an underexplored view of ageing, one that
conceives older people as valuable resources in their communities,
as active citizens with both voice, and an agency that includes the
capacity for resistance. It acknowledges that becoming old with
dignity means also paying attention to caring, good health services
and the possibility of good death. The book defines age and ageing
as multiple, culturally and historically constructed phenomena that
are only loosely connected to the years of one's life. In focusing
on the peripheral North located in the Nordic, Canadian and Russian
north, it highlights important questions and viewpoints that can be
found and adapted to other rural areas. The book answers the
following questions: What is the relevance of legislation and
international legal agreements in ensuring the rights of elderly
people under political and economic changes? What challenges do
geographic isolation, changing age structure, and cultural and
ecological transformations pose to possibilities for meeting older
people's needs for engagement in society as well as for their care?
As such this book will be of interest to all those working in
population aging.
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