As the global population ages, disability demographics are shifting.
Societal change and global health inequities have changed who is
likely to live to old age, who is likely to live with disability, and
the relationship between aging and disability in different
socio-cultural and geopolitical contexts. One thing is clear: aging is
a pressing issue across the Western world, and will become more so in
the years ahead. Yet scholarship that focuses on the disciplinary
nexus of disability studies and aging studies has not been considered
comprehensively. The Aging–Disability Nexus breaks new ground by
bringing gerontology and disability studies into dialogue with each
other. This thoughtful examination of competing narratives about aging
and disability employs a variety of empirical, conceptual, and
pedagogical approaches. Contributors explore the tensions that shape
how disability and aging are understood, experienced, and responded to
at both individual and systemic levels, while avoiding the common
tendency to conflate these overlapping elements and map them onto a
normative, faulty notion of the human life trajectory. This perceptive
work analyzes the distinction between aging with a disability and
aging into disability, and reveals how multiple identities,
socio-economic forces, culture, and community give form to our
experiences.
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ISBN
9780774863704
Publisert
2020
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
University of British Columbia Press
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok