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From Legacies to Futures: The Lifeworlds of Older Adults in Europe

By (author) Katja Seidel, By (author) David Prendergast, By (author) A. Jamie Saris





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Older adults want to exercise a sense of control over their relationships, structures and surroundings as they navigate the later life course. Through detailed ethnographic case studies, this book examines the dynamic lifeworlds of a hundred and seven community-dwelling older adults in Europe before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the importance of agency, the frictions between self-perceptions of age and outside impositions and the need to deconstruct old age as a homogenising category. These insights challenge simple narratives of older persons as social burdens by highlighting the complex roles they fill in family, neighbourhood and communities.

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Publisher | Berghahn Books
Published date | 1 Apr 2025
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Format | Digital download and online
Pages | 216
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ISBN | 978-1-8053-9950-6
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BISAC | social science / anthropology / cultural


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