Ageing in Everyday Life / Materialities and Embodiments
- 1st
- Policy Press, 2019
- 230
This pathbreaking book changes our understandings of contemporary ageing by providing innovative, theoretically-rich analyses of everyday life, meanings and material culture. Acknowledgements, Introduction, Materiabilities, Things and Possessions, Reinventing the Nursing Home: Metaphors That Design Cate, The Ever-Breaking Wave of Everyday Life: Animating Ageing Movement-Space, What's Exotic About the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel? Cinema and Everyday Life and the Materialization of Ageing, Between Ageing and Ageism: Portrayals of Online Dating in Later Life in Canadian Print Media, Embodiments, Closer to Touch: Sexuality and Embodiment and Masculinity in Older Men's Lives, Ageing Bodies and Driving and Change: Exploring Older Body-Drives Fit in the High-Tech Automobile, Dancing with Dementia: Citizenship and Embodiment and Everyday Life in the Context of Long-Term Care, Why Clothes Matter: The Role of Dress in the Everyday Lives of Older People, Our Fitbits and our (Ageing) Selves: Wearables and Self-Tracking and Ageing Embodiment, Afterword and Relational Entanglements: Ageing and Materialities and Embodiments, Index.