Critical Gerontology Comes of Age

Advances in Research and Theory for a New Century

Chris Wellin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781351806459
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychotherapy
• Index: Psychology

Critical Gerontology Comes of Age reflects on how baby boomers, caretakers, and health professionals are perceiving and adapting to historical, social, political, and cultural changes that call into question prior assumptions about aging and life progression. Through an exploration of earlier and later-life stages and the dynamic changes in intergenerational relations, chapter authors reexamine the research, methods, and scope of critical gerontology, a multidisciplinary field that speaks to the experiences of life in the 21 st century. Topics include Medicare, privatization of home care, incarceration, outreach to LGTBQ elders, migration, and chronic illness. Grounded in innovative research and case studies, this volume reflects multiple perspectives and is accessible to lay readers, advanced undergraduates and graduate students, and professionals in many fields.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• About the Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introductory Chapter: The Need for, and Fruits of, a Current Critical Gerontology
• 2 A First-Generation Critic Comes of Age Revisited: Reflections of a Critical Gerontologist
• 3 Critical Questions for Critical Gerontology (and Critical Gerontologists)
• 4 Qualifying the Aging Enterprise: Micro- and Meso-Level Studies in Human Service Organizations
• 5 Who Are You in Medicare and You? Examining This Second Person
• 6 Who Rules Home Care? The Impacts of Privatization on Profitability, Cost, and Quality
• 7 Challenges and Achievements Regarding Outreach to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Elders: Perspectives from Nursing
• 8 Paid Caregiving for Older Adults with Serious or Chronic Illness: Ethnographic Perspectives, Evidence, and Implications for Training
• 9 Silver Alert: Societal Aging, Dementia, and Framing a Social Problem
• 10 Aging in Places
• 11 Meanings of Age and Aging among Older, Incarcerated Women: Implications for Adaptation and Policy Reform
• 12 How Thinking about Children from a Global Perspective Can Fortify Social Gerontology
• 13 Lost in the “Big World”?: Korean College Students Coming of Age in the United States
• 14 Migration and Gendered Webs of Obligation: Caring for my Elderly Puerto Rican Mother in a Transnational Context
• Index