From Legacies to Futures: The Lifeworlds of Older Adults in Europe (Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations)

by Katja Seidel, David Prendergast, and A. Jamie Saris

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To older adults, a sense of control over relationships, structures and surroundings is key to living a meaningful life according to their own judgments. Through ninety-four ethnographic case studies of community dwelling older adults in Europe before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, this book provides insight into their lifeworlds in a historically situated and socio-culturally contextualized way. It highlights the importance of agency, friction between self-perceptions on age and outside impositions and the need to deconstruct old age as a homogenizing category of belonging.

  • ISBN10 1805399500
  • ISBN13 9781805399506
  • Publish Date 1 April 2025
  • Publish Status Forthcoming
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Berghahn Books