TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brooks,Abigail
AU  - Brooks,Abigail T.
AU  - Buch,Elana
AU  - Buch,Elana D.
AU  - Calasanti,Toni
AU  - Corwin,Anna
AU  - Corwin,Anna I.
AU  - Danely,Jason
AU  - Farquhar,Judith
AU  - Jespersen,Astrid Pernille
AU  - King,Neal
AU  - Lamb,Sarah
AU  - Lassen,Aske Juul
AU  - Leibing,Annette
AU  - Loe,Meika
AU  - McIntosh,Janet
AU  - Mcintosh,Janet
AU  - Pernille Jespersen,Astrid
AU  - Reynolds Whyte,Susan
AU  - Robbins-Ruszkowski,Jessica
AU  - Taylor,Janelle S.
AU  - Wentzell,Emily
AU  - Whyte,Susan Reynolds
AU  - Woody,Imani
AU  - Zhang,Qicheng
TI  - Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession: Global Perspectives 
T2  - Global Perspectives on Aging
SN  - 9780813585345
AV  - HQ1061 .S8449 2017
U1  - 305.26 
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Aging
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Older people
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Successful Aging as a Twenty-first- Century Obsession --; PART I. Gender, Sexuality, and the Allure of Anti-Aging --; 1. Successful Aging, Ageism, and the Maintenance of Age and Gender Relations --; 2. Opting In or Opting Out? North American Women Share Strategies for Aging Successfully with (and without) Cosmetic Intervention --; 3. Aging Out: Ageism, Heterosexism, and Racism among Aging African American Lesbians and Gay Men --; 4. Erectile Dysfunction as Successful Aging in Mexico --; PART II. Ideals of Independence, Interdependence, and Intimate Sociality in Later Life --; 5. Beyond Independence: Older Chicagoans Living Valued Lives --; 6. Growing Old with God: An Alternative Vision of Successful Aging among Catholic Nuns --; 7. Aspiring to Activity: Universities of the Third Age, Gardening, and Other Forms of Living in Postsocialist Poland --; 8. Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot? Friendship in the Face of Dementia --; PART III. National Policies and Everyday Practices: Individual and Collective Projects of Aging Well --; 9. Getting Old and Keeping Going: The Motivation Technologies of Active Aging in Denmark --; 10. Foolish Vitality: Humor, Risk, and Success in Japan --; 11. Nurturing Life in Contemporary Beijing --; 12. Depreciating Age, Disintegrating Ties: On Being Old in a Century of Declining Elderhood in Kenya --; PART IV. Medicine, Morality, and Self: Lessons from Life's Ends --; 13. Successful Selves? Heroic Tales of Alzheimer's Disease and Personhood in Brazil --; 14. Comfortable Aging: Lessons for Living from Eighty-five and Beyond --; 15. Ageless Aging or Meaningful Decline? Aspirations of Aging and Dying in the United States and India --; Epilogue: Successful Aging and Desired Interdependence --; Notes on Contributors --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - In recent decades, the North American public has pursued an inspirational vision of successful aging-striving through medical technique and individual effort to eradicate the declines, vulnerabilities, and dependencies previously commonly associated with old age. On the face of it, this bold new vision of successful, healthy, and active aging is highly appealing. But it also rests on a deep cultural discomfort with aging and being old. The contributors to Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession explore how the successful aging movement is playing out across five continents. Their chapters investigate a variety of people, including Catholic nuns in the United States; Hindu ashram dwellers; older American women seeking plastic surgery; aging African-American lesbians and gay men in the District of Columbia; Chicago home health care workers and their aging clients; Mexican men foregoing Viagra; dementia and Alzheimer sufferers in the United States and Brazil; and aging policies in Denmark, Poland, India, China, Japan, and Uganda. This book offers a fresh look at a major cultural and public health movement of our time, questioning what has become for many a taken-for-granted goal-aging in a way that almost denies aging itself.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813585369
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813585369
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