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Book SynopsisThe Aging–Disability Nexus explores the complex and competing narratives we create about aging and disability, providing fresh perspectives on how these markers interact with each other and with other indicators of power and difference.
Trade ReviewThe Aging-Disability Nexus provides a comprehensive overview of current studies on the relationships between aging and disabilities[...]
* CHOICE Connect *
I really appreciated the breadth of topics, including experiences of dance among people with Parkinson’s; an arts-based initiative called Re•Vision, which seeks to disrupt normative narratives of aging and disability; and the stories of two women aging with and aging into cognitive disability. Furthermore, with few exceptions, most theoretical discussions are illustrated with compelling real world examples.
-- W. Ben Mortenson, associate professor, University of British Columbia * Occupational Therapy Now *
Table of ContentsIntroduction / Katie Aubrecht, Christine Kelly, and Carla Rice
Part 1: Conceptualizing the Nexus
1 Aging and Disability: The Paradoxical Positions of the Chronological Life Course / Amanda Grenier, Meridith Griffin, and Colleen McGrath
2 Spectres of Unproductive Life: The Aging–Disability–Dementia Complex / Lucy Burke
3 Cripping Care Advice: Austerity, Advice Literature, and the Troubled Link between Disability and Old Age / Sally Chivers
4 Dancing In and Out of Control: Challenging the Myth of Bodily Mastery through the Lens of Parkinson’s Disease / Monique Lanoix
Part 2: Politics of Care
5 Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Care Policy: Toward a Critical Ethics of Care Approach / Maggie FitzGerald
6 Directly Funded Home Care for Older Adults: Exploring the Legacies of Disability Activism / Christine Kelly
7 Age, Disability, and Encounters with Care: Older People’s Experiences of Home Care / Rachel Barken and Alan Santinele Martino
8 Power, Agency, Aging, and Cognitive Impairment: The Stories of Two Women / Margaret Oldfield and Nancy Hansen
9 Regulation of “Care” in Long-Term Care Homes in Ontario / Poland Lai
Part 3: Timescapes and Landscapes
10 Aging with and into Disability: Futurities of New Materialisms / Nadine Changfoot and Carla Rice
11 From Boomer to Zoomer: Aging with Vitality under Neoliberal Capitalism / Anne McGuire
12 Deconstructing Dependency and Development in Global Dementia Policy / Katie Aubrecht and Akwasi Boafo
13 Aging and Disability in the Time of AIDS: Reflections from Research with Older Women Caregivers in South Africa / May Chazan
14 Disability, Age, the British Countryside, and Social Exclusion / Nathan Kerrigan
Dialogue: Speaking from the Nexus
Thinking into Aging–Disability Nexuses: A Dialogue between Two Scholars / Ruth Bartlett and Alison Kafer
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