Cultural Context of Aging Book Contents

THE CULTURAL CONTEXT OF AGING:WORLDWIDE PERSPECTIVES

2ND EDITION,1997. Jay Sokolovsky, editor. Greenwood Press.

BERGIN & GARVEY

Westport, Connecticut. London

 

I. Culture, Aging and Context

II. The Cultural Construction of Intergenerational Ties

III. Aging, Modernization and Societal Transformation

IV. The Ethnic Dimension in Aging: Culture, Context and Creativity

V. Networks and Community: Environments for Aging

VI. Health, Aging and Culture

 

CONTENTS

Preface

Starting Points: A Global, Cross-Cultural View of Aging

Jay Sokolovsky

Box I. The Evergreen Project: Ethnography of Aging in Action

I. Culture, Aging and Context go to top

Box 2. Older Women Create a Global Network

1. The Demography of an Aging World

Kevin Kinsella

2. Complaint Discourse, Aging and Caregiving among the Ju' hoansi of Botswana

Harriet G. Rosenberg

3. When Is Killing Acceptable: The Moral Dilemma Surrounding Assisted Suicide in America and Other Societies

Anthony P. Glascock

4. African Widows, Culture and Social Change: Case Studies from Kenya

Maria G. Cattell

5. Culture and the Meaning of a Good Old Age

Christine L Fry, Jeanette Dickerson-Putman, Patricia Draper, Charlotte Ikels, Jennie Keith, Anthony P. Glascock and Henry C. Harpending

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6. Grandparenting Styles: The Contemporary American Indian Experience

Joan Weibel-Orlando

7. Without Parents: Multigenerational Strategies for the Survival of Community

Maria D. Vesperi

8. Exchange and Reciprocity among Two Generations of Japanese

and American Women

Hiroko Akiyama, Toni C. Antonucci and Ruth Campbell

III. Aging, Modernization and Societal Transformation go to top

Box 3. Modern Ways Erode Mali's Tribal Traditions: When Values Collide

9. Aging, Family and Community Development in a Mexican Peasant Village

Jay Sokolovsky

10. Gender and Duty in Japan's Aged Society: The Experience of Family Caregivers

Brenda Robb Jenike

11. Transforming the "Middle Way": A Political Economy of Aging Policy in Sweden

Bruce M. Zelkovitz

IV. The Ethnic Dimension in Aging: Culture, Context and Creativity
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12. Bringing Culture Back Home: Aging, Ethnicity and Family Support

Jay Sokolovsky

13. Age of Wisdom: Elderly Black Women in Family and Church

Jane W. Peterson

14. The Social and Cultural Context of Adaptive Aging by Southeast Asian Elders

Barbara W.K. Yee

15. The Dynamics of Ethnic Identity and Bereavement Among Older Widowers

Mark R. Luborsky and Robert L. Rubinstein

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Box 4. Thailand's Senior Centers Rely on Tradition and Trends:

Nut Paste and Nutrition Advice

16. Social Support Systems of Rural Older Women: A Comparison of the United

States and Denmark

Dena Shenk and Kitter Christiansen

17. An Organization for the Elderly, by the Elderly: A Senior Center in the United States

Yohko Tsuji

18. History, Community Context and the Perception of Old Age in a Rural Irish Town

Jeanette Dickerson-Putman

19. Uncle Ed, Super Runner and the Fry Cook: Old Men on the Street

Jay Sokolovsky and Carl Cohen

20. One Thousand Points of Blight: Old, Female and Homeless in New York City

Jay Sokolovsky

VI. Health, Aging and Culture go to top

21. Between Humans and Ghosts: The Decrepit Elderly in a Polynesian Society

Judith C. Barker

22. Dementia in Cultural Context: Development and Decline of a Caregivers Support Group in a Latin Population

J. Neil Henderson

23. Aging, Disability and Ethnicity: An African-American Woman's Story

Monika Deppen-Wood, Mark Luborsky and Jessica Scheer

24. Long-Term Care and the Disabled Elderly in Urban China

Charlotte Ikels

25. Liminality in an American Nursing Home: The Endless Transition

Renee Rose Shield

26. Understanding Life Backwards

Joel Savishinsky

Bibliography

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