Current Discussion

Across generations, their correspondence provided them with additional emotional benefits derived through letter writing.

Public library programming can also oppose ageism by prompting library staff to consider and question the conceptions and practices surrounding old age. Library staff described the tensions that exist around marketing programs for older adults.

Empirical work thus far suggests that both between and within individual variability in physical functional limitations and cognitive impairment appear to be more closely tied to race/gender/class-based opportunity structure and processes of cumulative advantage/disadvantage than to randomness.

In the last days of life, residents are most often not in a position to express their will, and nurses interpret minimal bodily signs as expressions.

Rethinking dementia and the arts through feminist material perspectives is to create situations in which the distinction between those with and those without a dementia become irrelevant, and where a connectivity can emerge through common aesthetic experiences.

The International Network for Critical Gerontology (INCG) was designed to create a meaningful communityof scholars that are curious and engaged in the active exchange of ideas and practices.

Familialism will continue because of resource limitations, uncertainties regarding responsibility, and the political status of the family.

At the crux of what all older adults need is a place to call home— where they can attach meaning and build a sense of place.

Raise the visibility of non-inclusive transport, the United Nations Human Rights Council would do well to consider establishing a special procedure related to mobility in the context of the antidiscrimination norm and the economic, social and cultural rights to which most of the world’s countries have committed themselves.

The private sector tends to commodify housing stock but also acts in favour of the profit motive and the person and their needs remain largely ignored.