Animal companionship and psycho-social well-being: Findings from a national study of community-dwelling aging Canadians [0.03%]
动物陪伴与心理社会福祉：一项关于加拿大社区老年人的全国性研究发现
Betty Jo Barrett,Amy Fitzgerald,Huda Al-Wahsh et al.
Betty Jo Barrett et al.
A growing body of evidence has provided support for the beneficial impact of human-animal interactions on a range of biological, social, and psychological outcomes for humans; however, less is conclusively known about the association betwee...
Towards care-full co-design with older adults: A feminist posthuman praxis [0.03%]
以女性主义后人类理论视角与老年人进行关怀取向的协同设计研究
Helen Manchester,Alice Willatt
Helen Manchester
Gerontechnology design is often rooted in deficit imaginaries of frail ageing bodies, with little consideration given to the sociomateriality of older adults' everyday lives, as shaped by complex social, political, historical and cultural f...
Ruth Gehrmann
Ruth Gehrmann
This article follows an increased interest in the octopus in both popular science and fiction. Octopuses have long held fascination and are commonly tied to processes of aging: Even though their life expectancy tends to be lower than that o...
Industry visions of technology for older adults: A futures anthropology perspective [0.03%]
面向老年群体的技术愿景——未来人类学视角
Miguel Gomez-Hernandez
Miguel Gomez-Hernandez
The negative portrayal of ageing as a human decline burdening society has prompted Ageing Technology industries (AgeTech) to foresee solutions rooted in the Ageing in Place paradigm. These ostensibly neutral future interventions are intertw...
Emily K Abel
Emily K Abel
Although hundreds of advice manuals for dementia carers have been published, most have serious limitations. They emphasize the various problems family members experience without noting the social and political context within which caring un...
Outdated and re-configured: Challenging linear conceptualizations of ageing through the case of revived obsolete technologies [0.03%]
过时与重构——通过复兴淘汰技术的案例来挑战线性的老龄化观念
Cristina Ghita
Cristina Ghita
Taking as a starting point the conventional view of ageing as a linear process beginning in a youthful and productive stage but gradually deteriorating, this paper shifts the usual anthropocentric focal point towards technological artifacts...
Dwellings occupied by mobility-limited older people emerge as strong control centers and more age-friendly places [0.03%]
行动不便的老年人居住的房屋成为控制中心和更适老的地方
Stephen M Golant
Stephen M Golant
The future will witness the substantial worldwide growth of older people with functional limitations or disabilities who have difficulties leaving their dwellings and traveling to their neighborhoods or other community destinations to reali...
Othering and agency erosion of older adults living in extreme poverty in Bangladesh [0.03%]
生活在极端贫困中的老年人的“他人化”及其能动性的丧失：基于孟加拉国的研究
Owasim Akram
Owasim Akram
Offering fresh perspectives on the lived experience of ageing in extreme poverty, this article delves into unpacking the relationally driven processes of social, institutional, and self-othering that contribute to agency erosion in older ad...
Visual and material representations of ageing, space and rhythms in everyday life [0.03%]
视觉与物质视角下的老龄化、空间及日常生活节奏
Wendy Martin,Katy Pilcher
Wendy Martin
A focus on the materiality within ageing studies brings into focus the material dimensions of space, rhythms and material objects in everyday life. The aim of this paper is to explore meanings around space in the context of the daily lives ...
Constance Dupuis
Constance Dupuis
What can caring for, and being cared for by, a garden teach us about aging well? This article is a narrative exploration of care, aging, and wellbeing in later life through conversations with an older woman and her garden in Toronto, Canada...