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From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming a growing community of nomads: migrant labor...

This book is the first major study of the ways in which old age was perceived in Western culture and society. Beginning from ancient Palestine and Classical Greece, Minois traces the changing conceptions of the nature, value and burden of the old. He shows how, in ancient Greece, the cult of youth and beauty, on the one hand, and the reverence for the figure of the Homeric sage, on the other, created an ambivalent attitude towards the aged. This ambiquity appears again in the contrast betw...

The present and future of our society are shaped by an ever-increasing proportion of old and very old people. The Berlin Aging Study is one of the largest interdisciplinary efforts to explore old age and aging. Unique aspects of the Berlin Aging Study are the spectrum of scientific disciplines involved, the range of discipline-specific and interdisciplinary research topics, the focus on very old age (70 to over 100 years), and the empirical reference to a representative heterogenous urban popula...

What is the future of old age? How will families, services, and economies adapt to an older population? Such questions often provoke extreme and opposing answers: some see ageing populations as having the potential to undermine economic growth and prosperity; others see new and exciting ways of living in old age. The Futures of Old Age places these questions in the context of social and political change, and assesses what the various futures of old age might be. Prepared by the British Society...

Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan and Indonesia, this book is the first ethnography to research Indonesian care workers’ relationships with the cared-for elderly, their Japanese colleagues, and their employers. Through the notion of intimacy, the book brings together sociological and anthropological scholarship on the body, migration, demographic change, and eldercare in a vivid account of societal transformation. Placed against the...

"America's strangest magazine" (Spin), The Duplex Planet began when Greenberger started publishing his unlikely conversations with the residents at the Duplex Nursing Home in Boston. Over 100 issues later, his magazine has inspired a poetry collection, a 5-vol. CD set, two documentaries, three plays, and this book. Illus.

Still the definitive book on the subject, this volume has been thoroughly revised to cover rapidly changing aspects of the economics of aging. It provides an in-depth examination of the nation's evolving private and public policies on retirement, pension, and health, including, for instance, the dramatic changes in employer-sponsored pensions. New attention is given to the retirement of baby boomers and the financial situation of older women, many of whom still live in poverty. Other topics adde...

Here is the first practical guide for the teaching of creative writing in senior centers and nursing homes. Through years of valuable experience, the authors have discovered what it takes to spark the creative energy of older writers, and in Writers Have No Age, they share their insights and practice guidelines to aid in the development of a course, a strategy, and a style for teaching older writers. The book includes a comprehensive manual including class plans, rational for programming, etc.

This controversial book argues that concepts such as ‘successful’ and ‘active’ ageing - ubiquitous terms in research, marketing and policy making concerned with older adults – are potentially dangerous paradigms that reflect and exacerbate inequalities in older populations. This author presents a new theory to make sense of the popularity of these ‘successful’ and ‘active’ ageing concepts. Readers are invited to view them through the prism of Model Ageing – a theory that throws light on the caus...

Combining retro photographs with witty captions and quotes, this little book is the perfect way to celebrate becoming Officially Old.

A book of portraits by photographer Ruth Toda-Nation of our most senior citizens at an independent living facility, captured in a beautiful English garden over the pandemic year. The photographs will be accompanied by interviews ruth carried out with the residents, as well as hand-written reflections by the residents. All profits will be donated to Rights For Residents, a charity supporting elderly folks in care facilities around the UK.

Im Zeichen der demografischen Entwicklung gewinnt bürgerliches Engagement, ins-besondere auch älterer Menschen, an Bedeutung. Angesichts sich abzeichnender Herausforderungen sind ihre Potentiale und Zeitressourcen gefragt. Sie erfreuen sich einer besseren Gesundheit, verfügen über eine höhere formale Bildung und mehr zu erwartende Lebensjahre als Generationen von älteren Menschen vor ihnen. Bürger-schaftliches Engagement ist nicht nur eine Ressource, die dem Gemeinwohl dient, für die älteren Bür...