Older adults want to exercise a sense of control over their relationships, structures and surroundings as they navigate the later life course. Through detailed ethnographic case studies, this book examines the dynamic lifeworlds of a hundred and seven community-dwelling older adults in Europe before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the importance of agency, the frictions between self-perceptions of age and outside impositions and the need to deconstruct old age as a homogenising category. These insights challenge simple narratives of older persons as social burdens by highlighting the complex roles they fill in family, neighbourhood and communities.
- ISBN10 1805399500
- ISBN13 9781805399506
- Publish Date 1 April 2025
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Berghahn Books
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 216
- Language English
- URL http://berghahnbooks.com/title/SeidelFrom