The cultural context of aging : worldwide perspectives / edited by Jay Sokolovsky.

CW717, CW758, CW768

Includes bibliographical references (p. [623]-716) and index.

[PART 1: A global vision of aging, culture and context] Global perspectives on the demography of aging / Kevin Kinsella -- Complaint discourse, aging and caregiving among the Ju/'hoansi of Botswana / Harriet G. Rosenberg -- Beyond the grandmother hypothesis : evolutionary models of human longevity / Michael Gurven and Hillard Kaplan -- From successful aging to conscious aging / Harry Moody -- Is killing necessarily murder? Moral questions surrounding assisted suicide and death / Anthony Glascock -- Menopause : a biocultural event / Yewoubdar Beyene -- Web book : "Culture and the meaning of a good old age" / by Christine L. Fry et al.

[PART 2: The life course and intergenerational ties in cultural and global context] Elders, ancients, ancestors and the modern life course / Maria G. Cattell and Steven M. Albert -- Images of aging : cultural representations of later life / Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth -- When old is new : cultural spaces and symbolic meaning in late life / Jennie Keith -- Global perspectives on widowhood and aging / Maria G. Cattell -- Web book: "Exchange and reciprocity among two generations of Japanese and American women" / by Hiroko Akiyama, Toni C. Antonucci and Ruth Campbell -- Web book : "Grandparenting styles : the contemporary Native American experience" / by Joan Weibel-Orlando.

[PART 3: Aging, globalization and societal transformation] Globalization and the risks of aging / Christine L. Fry -- The new realities of aging in contemporary China : coping with the decline in family care / Hong Zhang -- Aging proletariats in a twenty-first century indigenous Mexican community / Jay Sokolovsky -- Transforming the cultural scripts for aging and elder care in Japan / Brenda R. Jenike and John W. Traphagan -- Standing up for others : the AMIGOS volunteer model for working with elders in Peru / Dena Shenk and Joan Mahon -- Danish home care policy and the family : implications for the United States / Mary Stuart and Eigil Boll Hansen.

[PART 4: The ethnic dimension in aging: culture, context and creativity] Ethnic elders and the limits of family support in a globalizing world / Jay Sokolovsky -- Losing, using and crafting spaces for aging : Muslim Iranian American seniors in California's Santa Clara Valley / Mary Elaine Hegland and associates -- Aging in exile : family support and emotional well-being among older Cuban immigrants in the United States / Iveris L. Martinez -- Ethnic and cross-cultural perspectives on custodial grandparenting / Bert Hayslip Jr. -- African Americans growing older in Chicago : living in a time and place of change / Madelyn Iris -- Web book : "Age of wisdom : elderly black women in family and church" / by Jane W. Peterson -- Web book : "The social and cultural context of adaptive aging by southeast Asian elders" / by Barbara W.K. Yee -- Web book : "Dementia in cultural context : development and decline of a caregivers support group in a Latin population" / by Neil Henderson.

[PART 5: Families, communities and elderscapes: transforming cultural spaces for aging] The structural vulnerability of older people in a matrilineal society : the Minangkabau of West Sumatra, Indonesia / Edi Indrizal, Philip Kreager and Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill -- Growing older in world cities : benefits and burdens / Michael K. Gusmano -- Elder residences and outsourced sons : remaking aging in cosmopolitan India / Sarah Lamb -- Aging in the hood : creating and sustaining elder-friendly environments / Philip B. Stafford -- Elders, urban community greening and the rise of civic ecology / Jay Sokolovsky -- Spaces of age, snowbirds and the gerontology of mobility : the elderscapes of Charlotte County, Florida / Stephen Katz -- Web book : "Social support systems of rural older women : a comparison of the United States and Denmark" / by Dena Shenk and Kitter Christiansen -- Web book photo essay : "Where are the bones in their noses? Community aged in North American RV camps and in Papua New Guinea" / by Dorothy Counts and David Counts -- Web book : "An organization for the elderly, by the elderly : a senior center in the United States" / by Yohko Tsuji -- Web book : "One thousand points of blight : old, female and homeless in New York City" / by Jay Sokolovsky.

[PART 6: The quest for gerontopia: culture and health in late life] Exceptional longevity and the quest for healthy aging : insights from the Okinawa Centenarian Study / D. Craig Willcox ... [et al.] -- Eldertopia : a vision for old age in a new world / William Thomas -- La cura degli nostri cari anziani : family and community elder care roles in contemporary Italy / Joan Weibel-Orlando -- Battling a new epidemic : American Indian elders and diabetes / Linda Carson Henderson -- Brain failure, late life and culture in Japan / John W. Traphagan -- The global Florida : long-term care in postindustrial countries / Larry Polivka -- Beyond the institution : dementia care and the promise of the Green House Project / Athena McLean -- Between humans and ghosts : the decrepit elderly in a Polynesian society / Judith C. Barker.

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