"Sexual activity for me is something else. It's the same as always: Sex aside and our love for each other." Changes in sexual activity in dementia from the view of spouse-carers' [0.03%]
痴呆患者性行为的变化——照顾者的观点分析
Marcela Moreira Lima Nogueira,Jose Pedro Simões Neto,Aud Johannessen et al.
Marcela Moreira Lima Nogueira et al.
The study aimed to explore the impact of Alzheimer's disease (AD) on spouse-carer's lives and the ways it affects their marital relationship and sexual activity. Data were obtained from qualitative interviews conducted with 11 spouse-carers...
Personal benefits of older adults engaging in a participatory action research (PAR) project [0.03%]
参与行动研究项目的老年人所获得的个人收益
Shkumbin Gashi,Heidi Kaspar,Martin Grosse Holtforth
Shkumbin Gashi
Participatory action research (PAR) is the process of conducting research with people rather than for them and is perceived as an empowering activity for older adults who participate in it. However, there is little evidence that outlines an...
"We never lived together either": Couples' housing (re-) arrangements in later life [0.03%]
"我们也从未共同生活过": 晚年夫妻的住房安排变迁
Julia Piel,Bernt-Peter Robra
Julia Piel
Social gerontology mainly addresses couples' housing arrangements in later life by focusing on partner's care, related adaptations in place, and changing role expectations within the couple relationship. Thereby, the resulting image does no...
Life-course transitions and exclusion from social relations in the lives of older men and women [0.03%]
生命周期转折与老年人社会关系排斥感之间的关联：一项性别视角的研究
Anna Urbaniak,Kieran Walsh,Lucie Galčanová Batista et al.
Anna Urbaniak et al.
There is increasing interest across European contexts in promoting active social lives in older age, and counteracting pathways and outcomes related to social isolation and loneliness for men and women in later life. This is evidenced withi...
A phenomenological, intersectional understanding of coping with ageism and racism among older adults [0.03%]
应对老年歧视和种族主义的实证主义、交叉性理解
Andrew T Steward,Yating Zhu,Carson M De Fries et al.
Andrew T Steward et al.
The aim of this qualitative, phenomenological study was to understand how older adults cope with experiences of ageism and racism through an intersectional lens. Twenty adults 60+ residing in the U.S. Mountain West who identified as Black, ...
Grit Höppner
Grit Höppner
In this paper, I develop features of a material gerontology which are summarised in the concept of "distributed age(ing);" that is, age(ing) that is distributed across and co-constituted through meanings, roles, and identities, as well as h...
Ira Raja
Ira Raja
Through close readings of three Indian short stories, this essay seeks to show how cherished possessions, such as a bed, a blanket and books, are not stable repositories of past memories but a means of materializing intergenerational relati...
Tannistha Samanta
Tannistha Samanta
This commentary explores how the material-nonmaterial transactions around reproduction among women raise paradoxical questions of reproductive autonomy and commercialization of reproduction. Drawing from medical anthropological studies on h...
Vera Gallistl,Anna Wanka
Vera Gallistl
Material gerontology poses the question of how aging processes are co-constituted in relation to different forms of (human and non-human) materiality. This paper makes a novel contribution by asking when aging processes are co-constituted a...
"Keeping our distance": Older adults' experiences during year one of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown in Australia [0.03%]
“保持距离”：澳大利亚新冠肺炎大流行和封锁期间老年人的体验
Andrew S Gilbert,Stephanie M Garratt,Bianca Brijnath et al.
Andrew S Gilbert et al.
The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic had a profound impact on everyday life in Australia despite relatively low infection rates. Lockdown restrictions were among the harshest in the world, while older adults were portrayed as especially ...