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    The Past in the Present: Ageing and the Workhouse Inheritance

    by Hamish Robertson July 4, 2019
    by Hamish Robertson July 4, 2019

    The contemporary aged care sector and geriatric medicine look like a solution to the problem of ageing and that, I suggest, is part of what is wrong with contemporary attitudes and responses.

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    Public library programming in Canada: Constructing age and combating ageism

    by Kaitlin Wynia February 22, 2019
    by Kaitlin Wynia February 22, 2019

    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.

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    Taking a dubious route—At the nexus of ageing and disability policy by Håkan Jönson

    by Håkan Jönson June 22, 2018
    by Håkan Jönson June 22, 2018

    In Sweden, people under retirement age who need extensive support can be granted personal assistance, a highly individualized form of assistance that is , free of charge and designed to improve the chances of living like other members of society. What is important here is that such support can be extended into aging

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    Ageism: Why Cultural Competency of Aging Matters

    by Laura Keyes and Lisa Dicke April 27, 2018
    by Laura Keyes and Lisa Dicke April 27, 2018

    Ageism has direct implications on the lives of older adults. Efficient public policy and administration requires public officials to understand the changing demographics in the communities they serve. They should also be aware of the cultural biases in their societies and how these may affect policy outcomes.

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    “Incitement to Suicide” is More Widespread than People Think

    by Margaret Morganroth Gullette August 4, 2017
    by Margaret Morganroth Gullette August 4, 2017

    “Incitement” gets published in an oh-so-reasonable tone, not by teenagers but by important writers with total impunity when older people are the focus.

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    Improving with age – our perception of growing old needs some get up and go

    by Cassandra Phoenix October 12, 2016
    by Cassandra Phoenix October 12, 2016

    “Weak”, “sick”, “immobile”, “decrepit”, “lonely”, “depressed”. If the prospect of growing old brings thoughts like these to mind, you are not alone. It seems that many people – of all age groups – have a preconceived idea of what being old will be like. And it’s generally not good.

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    Older Adults and the Internet: Benefits of inclusion in an on-line world

    by Stephanie Hatzifilalithis September 15, 2016
    by Stephanie Hatzifilalithis September 15, 2016

    In our ever-growing digitalized society that depends increasingly on digital means for communication, being digitally illiterate constitutes a form of social exclusion.

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    Citizenship and Aging: Reflections from the NICE Knowledge Exchange Event

    by Heather McNeil July 20, 2016
    by Heather McNeil July 20, 2016

    The keynote address, “Citizens until the End of Their Lives” given by Dr. Malcolm Payne presented a theory of aging that emerged from a career in social work, connecting ideas of citizenship and aging. Dr. Payne’s theorization began with the idea that older people are citizens.

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    Beware the Politics of Scapegoating

    by Emmanuelle Tulle July 6, 2016
    by Emmanuelle Tulle July 6, 2016

    In the aftermath of the referendum, commentators have been grappling with the need to explain the result and inevitably the demographic profile of voters, and more specifically that of Leave voters, has been scrutinised.

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    Portrayals of Aging in Popular Catholic Magazines – by Dana Sawchuk

    by admin June 23, 2016
    by admin June 23, 2016

    Scholars interested in aging sometimes distinguish between the socially constructed categories of the “Third Age,” a fulfilling period in the life course in which older adults experience engaged and active lives in retirement, and the “Fourth Age,” a dreaded period characterized by the decline and disease of those who are “old old.”

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      End-of-life care in nursing homes: Allowing for self-determined…

      January 24, 2019

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      UK housing options in later life: The enigma…

      October 25, 2018

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      How can a critical approach to the demographics…

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      Pathways to Retirement in Flux for White-Collar Boomers

      May 11, 2018

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      What are we talking about? Constructions of loneliness…

      March 16, 2018

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      Paradoxically Thinking: Ageing with Disability, Disability with Ageing

      February 2, 2018

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      “The world seems to be designed against the…

      September 13, 2019

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      “Incitement to Suicide” is More Widespread than People…

      August 4, 2017

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      How the Creative Industries Can Positively Impact Ageing…

      June 9, 2017

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      Fierce with Reality: Literature on Aging

      February 24, 2017

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      Migration and aging: publications at the intersection between…

      January 19, 2017

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      Queer Gerontology

      January 4, 2017

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      Population ageing from a life-course perspective – by…

      November 18, 2016

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      Happy New Year!

      January 12, 2023

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      Reflections on CAG 2019: Navigating the tides of…

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      Dementia is changing. Social media arguments show us…

      October 10, 2019

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      Design and Social Innovation in an Ageing Society

      September 27, 2019

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      “The world seems to be designed against the…

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      Calling for (a more) Critical Dementia Studies –…

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      The Past in the Present: Ageing and the…

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      Masculinity and Aging in Home Support: The Challenge…

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