Praise for the first edition:
“This book is exemplary in amassing demographic, policy, and sociopsychological data from around the world… The content of the book is rich with current information seldom accumulated into one sourceI recommend this volume to gerontologists, aging studies undergraduate and graduate students… demographers, and global studies scholars.”
Dr. Carol A. Gosselink, PsycCritiques
Written by leading scholars, this esteemed text on global aging is distinguished by its unique perspective on universal similarities and sociocultural differences across nations. Fully revised, updated, and reorganized, the second edition presents comprehensive coverage of major topics in social gerontology and expands its treatment of health behavior, health care, families, caregiving, older workers, and retirement. It delivers new information on living environments, religious beliefs and practices; environmental threats; cross-cultural views of dementia; ageism in advertising; age-friendly communities; global immigration and cultural assimilation, and end-of-life caregiving.
The second edition also offers additional case studies, first-person narratives and focused essays to enhance core material and a greater number of non-Western contributors. The topical essays reflect changing mores and current issues affecting societies and the aging experience. Discussion questions conclude each chapter, and an Instructor’s Manual and PowerPoint slides are available to instructors. Print version of the book includes free, searchable, digital access to entire contents.
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New to the Second Edition:<li>Expanded content on health beliefs and health behavior, religious belief and practice, environmental threats, housing and living environments, physical security, consumer control of health care, family life, and more</li>
<li>Additional topics on global immigration and cultural assimilation, age portrayals in advertising, voluntarism, and the use of social media in caregiving</li>
<li>Abundant new and expanded essays</li>
<li>New case studies and first-person narratives</li>
<li>Many more non-Western contributors</li>
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Key Features:<li>Delivers comprehensive coverage of major topics in gerontology</li>
<li>Uses a unique comparative, cross-national perspective</li>
<li>Authored by world-renowned aging scholars</li>
<li>Includes case studies/essays/personal narratives to enliven core information</li>
<li>Provides the most comprehensive demographic data on aging around the world</li>
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Global Aging: Comparative Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course

Politics & Social Sciences

Kunkel PhD, Suzanne R.

de Medeiros PhD, Kate

Whittington PhD, Frank J.

Social Sciences

Springer Publishing Company

This book will no doubt support a growing number of us who see [narrative gerontology] as a field with much potential, within and outside of academia. -- Kathy D. Lohr, Ed.D., East Carolina University, Educational Gerontology What is meant by narrative? How can one elicit a narrative or analyze it in research? How can narrative work best be facilitated among older adults? This is the only text to provide comprehensive information about the applications of narrative approaches in community and long-term settings, writing in the virtual world, and such individual work as journaling or poetry. The book explores the theories of narratives across many disciplines, research practices and analytical strategies, and applications in work with older adults. It has been written by a prominent researcher of the narrative construction of self in old age, whose studies have been funded by the NIH, the Brookdale Foundation, and the Alzheimer's Association, among other related achievements. The book brings together a unique blend of interdisciplinary perspectives and practices not found in other books on life stories, autobiography, and/or narrative approaches to understanding one's experiences. Specifically, it focuses on the myriad theoretical underpinnings of narrative, provides a developmental history of narrative use in gerontology, and details various ways to use narratives in a variety of research settings. Each chapter includes step-by-step guides on who to analyze and report on, and how to write up narrative data. It also discusses ways to incorporate narratives in varied practice settings such as writing workshops in retirement communities, individual writing projects, and others. Key Features: <ul>
<li>Offers a "hands on" research tool that guides the reader from theory to research to practice </li> <li>Describes the theoretical underpinnings and practical applications of narrative with older adults </li> <li>Illustrates how narrative gerontology is fundamentally different in practice than narrative research with younger participants </li> <li>Addresses the breadth of available narrative methods and how to apply them in a research settings </li> <li>Designed for use in qualitative methods, service learning, and gerontological research courses. </li> </ul>

Narrative Gerontology in Research and Practice

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