Older adults and carers are themselves aware of the moralized discourses around aging, dying and caring, and that well-meaning attempts by others to invoke these discourses may have inadvertently generate isolation, sadness, even resentment.
Author
Laura Funk

Laura Funk
Dr. Laura Funk (@LauraFunkUofM) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Manitoba. Her research draws primarily on qualitative inquiry and interpretive and critical perspectives to understand paid and unpaid care work for older, chronically and terminally ill persons, within broader social, cultural and structural contexts. She is also the author of Sociological Perspectives on Aging (2015, Oxford University Press).