Ageing, Insight and Wisdom: Meaning and Practice Across the LifecourseThis book focuses on older people as makers of meaning and insight, highlighting the evolving values, priorities and ways of communicating that make later life fascinating. It explores what creating ‘meaning’ in later life really implies, for older people themselves, for how to conceptualise older people and for relationships between generations. The book offers a language for discussing major types of lifecourse meaning, not least those concerning ethical and temporal aspects of the ways people interpret their lifecourses, the ways older people form part of social and symbolic landscapes, and the types of wisdom they can offer. It will appeal to students of gerontology, sociological methodology, humanistic sociology, philosophy, psychology, and health promotion and medicine. |
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Ageing, Insight and Wisdom: Meaning and Practice Across the Lifecourse Ricca Edmondson Limited preview - 2015 |
Ageing, insight and wisdom: Meaning and practice across the lifecourse Edmondson, Ricca Limited preview - 2015 |
Ageing, insight and wisdom: Meaning and practice across the lifecourse Edmondson, Ricca Limited preview - 2015 |
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