Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland - Jessica C. Robbins

Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland

Memory, Kinship, and Personhood
Buch | Hardcover
228 Seiten
2020
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-1397-7 (ISBN)
154,60 inkl. MwSt
Active aging programs that encourage older adults to practice health- promoting behaviors are proliferating worldwide. In Poland, the meanings and ideals of these programs have become caught up in the sociocultural and political-economic changes that have occurred during the lifetimes of the oldest generations—most visibly, the transition from socialism to capitalism. Yet practices of active aging resonate with older forms of activity in late life in ways that exceed these narratives of progress. Moreover, some older Poles come to live valued, meaningful lives in old age despite the threats to respect and dignity posed by illness and debility. Through intimate portrayals of a wide range of experiences of aging in Poland, Jessica C. Robbins shows that everyday practices of remembering and relatedness shape how older Poles come to be seen by themselves and by others as living worthy, valued lives.

 

JESSICA C. ROBBINS is an assistant professor at the Institute of Gerontology and Department of Anthropology at Wayne State University in Michigan.

List of illustrations

Preface

Introduction

1 Histories of Active Aging: Aktywność across Eras   

2 Aspiring to Activity: Transforming Aging through Education 

3 Beyond Activity: Sustaining Relations in Institutional Care

4 Remembering the Polish Nation: Connections across Third and Fourth Ages

5 Rethinking Memory: Everyday Rhythms of Dementia

6 Gardens of Memory: Reimagining Home and Nation

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

 

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 13 b-w images
Verlagsort New Brunswick NJ
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Geriatrie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-9788-1397-X / 197881397X
ISBN-13 978-1-9788-1397-7 / 9781978813977
Zustand Neuware
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