Shaping Ageing: Social Transformations and Enduring Meanings

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Introduction: ageing matters: a constructivist perspective
Part 1 Theories and narratives of ageing and old age
	1 The philosophic homework of later life: on narrative, wisdom, and the positive potential of growing old
	2 Gerontophobia: the cultural roots of the old-age anxiety in contemporary society
	3 Cougars and crones: maverick archetypes for older women
	4 Visual representations of older persons: current discourses and their historical roots
	5 ‘Positive ageing happens in the West’: ageing perceptions and active ageing policy implementation among Romanian general practitioners
Part 2 Ageing and old age in different spaces
	6 ‘It’s okay to color outside the lines’: living, ageing, and dying in a hospice ‘home’
	7 Ageing behind locked doors: growing older in secure mental healthcare and prison settings
	8 Providing elderly care in precarious settings: a case study in Lima, Peru
	9 Risks and promises of being old in social media
	10 Beauty in later life: voices from older Korean women in New Zealand
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