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Valuing Older People - A Humanist Approach to Ageing (Book, New)
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Valuing Older People - A Humanist Approach to Ageing (Book, New)
Series: Ageing and the Lifecourse Series
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How can we understand older people as real human beings, value
their wisdom, and appreciate that their norms and principles both
matter in themselves and are affected by those of others? Using a
life-course approach, this book claims that the complexity and
potential creativity of later life demands a humanistic vision of
older people and ageing. This denies that older people are 'other'
than ourselves, stressing 'ties of recognition and concern' which
bind all human beings together.At the same time, it acknowledges
the specificities of different experiences of older age and the
diversity of meanings connected with them. It presents a range of
contexts and methodologies through which such meanings can be
understood. The book interprets ageing as a process of creating
meaning, carried out by older people but significant for those
around them, and influenced by the norms and values of their
societies. It then considers the impact of social norms on older
people's capacities to age in creative ways.What real obstacles are
there to older people's construction of meaningful lives, what is
going on when they feel they are ageing well? In former times, the
idea of a meaningful later life was associated with the idea of
wisdom; some of its contemporary dimensions are explored here. This
collection offers a lively and creative response to contemporary
challenges of ageing and how to understand it. It is aimed at
students, researchers, practitioners and policy-makers interested
in ageing.
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