From Legacies to Futures: The Lifeworlds of Older Adults in Europe (Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations)
Aging (social issues), General non-fiction
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
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.