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Establishing a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue, this text engages with the typically disparate fields of social gerontology and disability studies. It investigates the experiences of two groups rarely considered together in research people ageing with long-term disability and people first experiencing disability with ageing.

Table of Contents
1. Introduction Part 1: The context for disablement in older age 2. Defining disability 3. Literature: ageing, disability and lifecourse 4. Public policies on ageing and disability Part 2: Empirical findings 5. Disabling bodies 6. Disabling or enabling contexts 7. Responding to challenges 8. Comparison: disability with ageing and ageing with disability 9. Conclusion Methodological annexe

Disability and Ageing

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      Publisher: Bristol University Press
      Publication Date: 10/01/2023
      ISBN13: 9781447357162, 978-1447357162
      ISBN10: 1447357167
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      Medical sociology Disability: social aspects

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Establishing a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue, this text engages with the typically disparate fields of social gerontology and disability studies. It investigates the experiences of two groups rarely considered together in research people ageing with long-term disability and people first experiencing disability with ageing.

      Table of Contents
      1. Introduction Part 1: The context for disablement in older age 2. Defining disability 3. Literature: ageing, disability and lifecourse 4. Public policies on ageing and disability Part 2: Empirical findings 5. Disabling bodies 6. Disabling or enabling contexts 7. Responding to challenges 8. Comparison: disability with ageing and ageing with disability 9. Conclusion Methodological annexe

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