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Cultures of Care in Aging (Paperback)
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Cultures of Care in Aging (Paperback)
Series: Advances in Cultural Psychology
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This book is about caring for elderly persons in the 21th century.
It shows that care has many facets and is influenced by many
factors. Central topics of this book thus include the relation
between the person depending on care and the care giver(s), the
impacts of caregiving on the family and the larger social context,
as well as socio-cultural and political aspects underlying the
growing need for and the practice of formal and informal care. It
is evident that care as a real-life phenomenon of our time needs
the co-operation ofmultiple disciplines to better understand,
describe, explain and modify phenomena of elder care. Such a need
for crossdisciplinary research is even more urgent given the
increasing population aging and the impending gaps between demand
and supply of care. The present book is dedicated to this approach
and provides a first substantive integration of knowledge from
geropsychology, other gerosciences, and cultural psychologies by a
multi-disciplinary cast of internationally renowned authors.
Cultural psychology emerged as a valuable partner of the
gerosciences by contributing essentially to a deeper understanding
of the relevant issues. Reading of this book provides the
reader-researcher or practitioner-with new insights of where the
problems of advancing age take our caring tasks in our 21st century
societies and it opens many new directions for further work in the
field. Finally and above all, this book is also a strong plea for
solidarity between generations in family and society in a rapidly
changing globalized world.
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