Critical Gerontlogy

The increasingly diverse environments of an aging population call for innovative and dynamic responses to new challenges that older people will face.

Yet, based on my experience, and positionality as an artist and a social scientist, I would advocate that visual memos become a part of visual methods and an engaged critical reflexive practice.

The agreement between the community-based organization and the university/college often involves a memorandum of understanding, space in the community to provide the engagement, and a willingness for meaningful engagement.

No one wants to be alone, yet, for approximately 10% of older people, loneliness is a lived reality and has been acknowledged as a policy issue globally.

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

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.

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.

Although many of the articles are seemingly written with the best of intentions there is a risk that they further contribute to the portrayal of loneliness as a dangerous and/or inevitable part of later life.

How hairstylists respond to age norms, the aging body, as well as, social constructs about how women should style their hair.