Times of Our Lives: Making Sense of Growing Up & Growing Old

Front Cover
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Inside Cover
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Advisory Board......Page 3
ISBN
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Table of Contents......Page 6
Introduction:  Harry Blatterer and Julia Glahn
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PART I CONCEPTUALISATIONS......Page 16
The Meaning of Age: Cultures Meets Biology: 
Jan Baars......Page 18
The Irrelevance of Chronological Age: 
Peter Caws and Julia Glahn......Page 30
Human Aging: A Social Collaborative Itinerary?:
Alexander J.J.A. Maas......Page 38
Re-Writing the Myth of Women and Aging: 
Barbara Flood......Page 48
PART II 
TRANSITIONS......Page 58
Contemporary Adulthood and the Devolving Life Course: 
Harry Blatterer......Page 60
Teen Brain Science and the Contemporary Storying ofPsychological (Im)Maturity:  Monica A. Payne......Page 70
Theorising Liminal Selfhood and its Consequences forChildhood, Youth and Adulthood: 
Rebecca Raby......Page 84
Blurred Transitions: Revisiting the Significance of Workand Parenthood for Young Adults in Italy: 
Valentina Cuzzocrea and Sveva Magaraggia......Page 94
The Light and Shadow of the Active and IndependentSenior: From Life History of Japanese Pre-elderly:  Eiji Gon......Page 106
PART III 
WELLBEING AND HEALTH......Page 116
The Positivity Effect in Old Age: Is it Real?: 
Christie Chung......Page 118
Longevity Meets Brain Wellness: 
Roger Anunsen......Page 130
Higher Education in Later Life: Cui Bono?: 
James H. Cook......Page 142
Storied Lives: An Exploration of Life Course NarrativeIdentities and the Factors Linked to Happiness in Later Life: 
Deirdre O’Donnell and Kathleen McTiernan......Page 160
Positive Life Models After Normative Retirement Age:Toward a Typology Construction: 
Miwako Kidahashi......Page 176
Intimacy among the Socially Dead: Examining Intimacyamong Institutionalised Elders with Mid toLate Stage Dementia: 
Johanna M. Wigg......Page 196
Practical Wisdom and Overall Life Satisfaction In Aging: 
Sheila Mason......Page 208
PART IV 
PRACTICES AND ETHICS......Page 222
Being Heard: Community ParticipationAcross the Life-Course: 
Peter Whitecross......Page 224
Making Sense of Aging: Multidisciplinary Course ModulesProvide Guide to Creating Age-Friendly Communities:
Judie C. Davies and Verena H. Menec......Page 234
Get Me To A Nunnery: A Reflection on Aging in TwoDifferent Cultural Contexts, the Nursing Home and theReligious Convent: 
Christina Maria Olohan......Page 250
A Time to Keep Silent and a Time to Speak:Past and Present in Group for the Elderly:
Judith Fadlon......Page 264
Sartorial Identity of Professional Woman Over Age 60: 
Claire Lacoste Kapstein......Page 274
Learning Through Consumption: Placing AgingThrough the Lifecourse: 
Juliana Mansvelt......Page 286
Middle Aged Immigrants in Israel: 
Pnina Dolberg & Julia Mirsky......Page 300
PART V 
GENERATIONS......Page 310
Together for Tomorrow: Building Community ThroughIntergenerational Dialogue and Action: 
James V. Gambone......Page 312
Growing Up and Growing Old: Negotiating theGenerational Shift in Midlife: 
Bethany Morgan......Page 322
Constructing Generations in Contemporary China:A Mannheimian Approach:
 Tam Chen Hee......Page 332
Like Fathers, Like Sons: The Boran-Gadaa Experience: 
Andrea Nicolas......Page 338
Fathers and Sons: Generation Gaps in the History ofImperial Russia: 
Nataliya Rodigina and Tatiana Saburova......Page 350
PART VI 
CONTEMPLATING LIFE, DEATH ANDIMMORTALITY......Page 358
Wisdom and Old Age: 
Giuliana Di Biase......Page 360
Last Works: The Late Life Creativity of Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse: 
John-Raphael Staude......Page 370
The Love Stories and Impact of HIV/AIDS: Generations ofGay Men in Urban Australia and New Zealand: 
Ian Flaherty......Page 380
World Without End: 
Ian Nichols......Page 394