The cultural context of aging : worldwide perspectives

 Content: Introduction : human maturity and global aging in cultural context / Jay Sokolovsky --
 A global vision of aging, culture and context / Jay Sokolovsky --
 Global perspectives on the demography of aging / Kevin Kinsella --
 Complaint discourse, aging and caregiving among the Ju/'hoansi of Botswana / Harriet G. Rosenberg --
 Beyond the grandmother hypothesis : evolutionary models of human longevity / Michael Gurven and Hillard Kaplan --
 From successful aging to conscious aging / Harry Moody --
 Is killing necessarily murder? Moral questions surrounding assisted suicide and death / Anthony Glascock --
 Menopause : a biocultural event / Yewoubdar Beyene --
 Web book : ''Culture and the meaning of a good old age'' / by Christine L. Fry et al. --
 The life-course and intergenerational ties in cultural and global context / Jay Sokolovsky --
 Elders, ancients, ancestors and the modern life course / Maria G. Cattell and Steven M. Albert --
 Images of aging : cultural representations of later life / Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth --
 When old is new : cultural spaces and symbolic meaning in late life / Jennie Keith --
 Global perspectives on widowhood and aging / Maria G. Cattell --
 Web book: ''Exchange and reciprocity among two generations of Japanese and American women'' / by Hiroko Akiyama, Toni C. Antonucci and Ruth Campbell --
 Web book : ''Grandparenting styles : the contemporary Native American experience'' / by Joan Weibel-Orlando --
 Aging, globalization and societal transformations / Jay Sokolovsky --
 Globalization and the risks of aging / Christine L. Fry --
 The new realities of aging in contemporary China : coping with the decline in family care / Hong Zhang --
 Aging proletariats in a twenty-first century indigenous Mexican community / Jay Sokolovsky --
 Transforming the cultural scripts for aging and elder care in Japan / Brenda R. Jenike and John W. Traphagan --
 Standing up for others : the AMIGOS volunteer model for working with elders in Peru / Dena Shenk and Joan Mahon --
 Danish home care policy and the family : implications for the United States / Mary Stuart and Eigil Boll Hansen --
 The ethnic dimension in aging : culture, context and creativity / Jay Sokolovsky --
 Ethnic elders and the limits of family support in a globalizing world / Jay Sokolovsky --
 Losing, using and crafting spaces for aging : Muslim Iranian American seniors in California's Santa Clara Valley / Mary Elaine Hegland and associates --
 Aging in exile : family support and emotional well-being among older Cuban immigrants in the United States / Iveris L. Martinez --
 Ethnic and cross-cultural perspectives on custodial grandparenting / Bert Hayslip Jr. --
 African Americans growing older in Chicago : living in a time and place of change / Madelyn Iris --
 Web book : ''Age of wisdom : elderly black women in family and church'' / by Jane W. Peterson --
 Web book : ''The social and cultural context of adaptive aging by southeast Asian elders'' / by Barbara W.K. Yee --
 Web book : ''Dementia in cultural context : development and decline of a caregivers support group in a Latin population'' / by Neil Henderson. Families, communities and elderscapes : transforming cultural spaces for aging / Jay Sokolovsky --
 The structural vulnerability of older people in a matrilineal society : the Minangkabau of West Sumatra, Indonesia / Edi Indrizal, Philip Kreager and Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill --
 Growing older in world cities : benefits and burdens / Michael K. Gusmano --
 Elder residences and outsourced sons : remaking aging in cosmopolitan India / Sarah Lamb --
 Aging in the hood : creating and sustaining elder-friendly environments / Philip B. Stafford --
 Elders, urban community greening and the rise of civic ecology / Jay Sokolovsky --
 Spaces of age, snowbirds and the gerontology of mobility : the elderscapes of Charlotte County, Florida / Stephen Katz --
 Web book : ''Social support systems of rural older women : a comparison of the United States and Denmark'' / by Dena Shenk and Kitter Christiansen --
 Web book photo essay : ''Where are the bones in their noses? Community aged in North American RV camps and in Papua New Guinea'' / by Dorothy Counts and David Counts --
 Web book : ''An organization for the elderly, by the elderly : a senior center in the United States'' / by Yohko Tsuji --
 Web book : ''One thousand points of blight : old, female and homeless in New York City'' / by Jay Sokolovsky --
 The quest for gerontopia : culture and health in late life / Jay Sokolovsky --
 Exceptional longevity and the quest for healthy aging : insights from the Okinawa Centenarian Study / D. Craig Willcox ... [et al.] --
 Eldertopia : a vision for old age in a new world / William Thomas --
 La cura degli nostri cari anziani : family and community elder care roles in contemporary Italy / Joan Weibel-Orlando --
 Battling a new epidemic : American Indian elders and diabetes / Linda Carson Henderson --
 Brain failure, late life and culture in Japan / John W. Traphagan --
 The global Florida : long-term care in postindustrial countries / Larry Polivka --
 Beyond the institution : dementia care and the promise of the Green House Project / Athena McLean --
 Between humans and ghosts : the decrepit elderly in a Polynesian society / Judith C. Barker.
 Abstract:             
              Explores various cultural issues worldwide that affect aging issues, from perception and valuation of the elderly to aspects including homelessness, care-giving, assisted suicide, psychological support and responses to those with dementia. This book includes special student resources, data from studies, and a bibliography of related readings.                 Read more...