To begin new relationships in later life is increasingly common in large parts of the Western world. This timely book addresses the gap in knowledge about late life repartnering and provides a comprehensive map of the changing landscape of late life intimacy.

Part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, the book examines the changing structural conditions of intimacy and ageing in late modernity. How do longer lives, changing norms and new technologies affect older people's relationship careers, their attitudes to repartnering and in the formation of new relationships? Which forms do these new unions take? What does a new intimate relationship offer older men and women and what are the consequences for social integration? What is the role and meaning of sex?

By introducing a gains-perspective the book challenges stereotypes of old age as a period of loss and decline. It also challenges the image of older people as conservative, and instead presents them as an avant-garde that often experiment with new ways of being together.

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Information

Publisher

Policy Press

Year

2017

ISBN

9781447326533

Edition

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Gerontology

Index

Social Sciences

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
Series editors’ preface
One: Introduction
Two: Intimacy and ageing in late modernity
Three: The changing landscape of intimacy in later life
Four: From marriage to alternative union forms
Five: A life of relationships
Six: Attitudes towards new romantic relationships
Seven: Initiation and development of new romantic relationships
Eight: A new partner as a resource for social support
Nine: Consequences for social network and support structures
Ten: Sex in an ideology of love
Eleven: Time as a structuring condition for new intimate relationships in later life
Twelve: Discussion
Methodological appendix
References
Notes
Back Cover