Aging A-Z

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Concepts Toward Emancipatory Gerontology

By Carroll L. Estes and with Nicholas B. DiCarlo

Series: Aging and Society

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Aging A-Z offers a provocative and intellectually charged introduction to emancipatory gerontology. It explores aging through multiple dimensions including power, politics, culture, economics, and communications. The book presents critical perspectives and links them to concepts such as identity, social networks, social movements, and inequalities. Highlighting the impact of intersectionality on aging, it also offers a bibliographic compendium crediting pioneering theorists and current research in social, behavioural, policy, and gene–environment sciences. The text emphasises theories of resistance to promote human rights and dignity for marginalised groups.
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This book is ideal for students, scholars, and practitioners in gerontology, social work, nursing, and related fields interested in critical theories of aging, social justice, and policy reform.

This provocative, intellectually charged treatise serves as a concise and critical introduction to social gerontology, examining multiple dimensions of persistent and hotly debated topics around age, aging, the life course, and the roles of power, politics, culture, economics, and communications.

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This provocative, intellectually charged treatise serves as a concise introduction to emancipatory gerontology, examining multiple dimensions of persistent and hotly debated topics around aging, the life course, the roles of power, politics and partisanship, culture, economics, and communications.

Critical perspectives are presented as definitions for reader understanding, with links to concepts of identity, knowledge construction, social networks, social movements, and inequalities. With today’s intensifying concentration of wealth and corporatisation, precarity is the fate for growing numbers of the world’s population. Intersectionality as an analytic concept offers a new appreciation of how social advantage and disadvantage accumulate, and how constructions of race, ethnicity, class, ability, and gender influence aging.

The book’s entries offer a bibliographic compendium, crediting the salience of early pioneering theorists and locating these within the cutting-edge of research (social, behavioural, policy, and gene–environment sciences) that currently advances our understandings of human development, trauma, and resilience. Accompanying these foundations are theories of resistance for advancing human rights and the dignity of marginalised populations.

Aging A-Z by Carroll L. Estes, with Nicholas B. DiCarlo, stands as an essential resource for those seeking to understand the complexities and nuances of aging in contemporary society.

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By Carroll L. Estes and with Nicholas B. DiCarlo

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Barbara Bowers in The Gerontologist describes Aging A-Z as monumental in scope, painstaking in detail, and accessible in style. She praises the book's mandate for theoretically informed action towards social justice and emancipation. The unique format guides readers in exploring key concepts and their practical implications, with specific relevance for nursing and social work disciplines.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781629584492

Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 23 April 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Left Coast Press Inc

Illustration: 11 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 453g

Pages: 396

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About the Author

Carroll L. Estes is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) where she founded the Institute for Health & Aging and chaired the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Nursing. Dr Estes is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and past President of three national organizations in aging: The Gerontological Society of America (GSA), the American Society on Aging and the Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE). Credited as a founding scholar of the "political economy of aging" and "critical gerontology," Estes has Distinguished Scholar Awards from the American Sociological Association, Pacific Sociological Association., American Public Health Association, American Society on Aging, GSA, and AGHE. Receiving UCSF’s highest honor, the UCSF Medal, Estes’ awards for public service and action include Sociologists for Women in Society, Justice in Aging, National Organization of Women, Gray Panthers, and honorary Fellowship in the American Academy of Nursing.

Nicholas B. DiCarlo, LCSW, writes about aging and social policy at the Institute for Health and Aging, UCSF. He has degrees in Media Studies and Film (B.A.s) from Vassar College and received his Masters of Social Work at Hunter College, specializing in global social work. Writing with Carroll Estes, his critical gerontological work has grown to reflect the ways in which the psychic and social are invariably bound. Nicholas has a private psychotherapy practice in Oakland where he brings this lens on aging, inequality, and generational trauma.

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