Description
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to address the issue of ageing after a long life with disability. It breaks new ground through its particular life course perspective, examining what it means to age with a physical or mental disability.
Trade Review“This book is a significant contribution to the study of ageing and disability from a life course perspective. It provides a fascinating, theoretically well-informed treatise of how older people make sense of disability.” Professor Rafael Lindqvist, Uppsala University, Sweden
“This significant and original collection will change perspectives on the interplay between ageing and disability in ways that will be wholly beneficial to older people and policy making alike.” Joanna Bornat, Emeritus Professor, The Open University
Table of ContentsAgeing with disability – An introduction ~ Eva Jeppsson Grassman and Anna Whitaker; Time, age and the failing body. A long life with disability ~ Eva Jeppsson Grassman; Disability, identity and ageing ~ Lotta Holme; Is it possible to ‘age successfully’ with extensive physical impairments? ~ Annika Taghizadeh Larsson; Being one’s illness: on mental disability and ageing ~ Per Bülow and Tommy Svensson; In the shade of disability reforms and policy – parenthood, ageing and life-long care ~ Anna Whitaker; Ageing and care among disabled couples ~ Cristina Joy Torgé; Living and ageing with disability – summary and conclusion ~ Anna Whitaker and Eva Jeppsson Grassman.
