Evidence pertaining to continual violence throughout the life
cycle coupled with the experience of growing old in a life
permeated by intimate violence is scarce. And the focus is usually
on the victims usually, the older, battered women and seldom on
their aging partners or adult children who were part and parcel of
the violent dynamics in the family system. With the increase in
longevity and the older population s subsequent growth in size, the
number of elderly couples living and aging in long-lasting
conflictive relationships is on the rise.
The relatively intense preoccupation with elder abuse in the
gerontological literature in recent years has not specifically
addressed long-term intimate violence among the old adults and its
lasting consequences. Similarly, the literature on intimate
intergenerational relationships in old age has usually focused on
normative exchanges between partners and their extended family,
including their adult children. Therefore, conflictive
relationships, and particularly violent ones, have also fallen
outside the scope of this body of research. This volume describes
and analyzes the various perspectives of family members concerning
life, and particularly old age, in the shadow of long-term intimate
violence. It explores how people make sense out of living and aging
in violence, how interpersonal, familial and cross-generational
relationships are perceived and reconstructed and how we-ness is
achieved, if at all, in such families."
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