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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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