'Everything you need to embrace the change': The 'menopausal turn' in contemporary UK culture [0.03%]
“拥抱变化,你需要的一切”——英国当代文化中的“更年期转向”
Deborah Jermyn
Deborah Jermyn
In recent years, the UK has witnessed an unprecedented period of pronounced public cultural conversation and promotion around a newly inflected era of menopause awareness. Importantly, this 'menopausal turn', as I term it, can be identified...
"It's not that I don't have things to do. It just all revolves around me" - men's reflections on meaning in life in the transition to retirement in Denmark [0.03%]
“不是因为我无事可做,而是因为一切以我为中心”——关于丹麦男性在退休过渡期对人生意义的思考
Mette Marie Kristensen,Peter Simonsen,Karen Katrine Sieg Mørch et al.
Mette Marie Kristensen et al.
Retirement may bring about significant changes for those who retire. Studies have shown that men find it harder than women to adapt to retirement, putting them at greater risk of identity and meaning loss, which may reduce subjective well-b...
"It's your Liangxin that tells you what to do": Interpreting workplace-induced emotions in a Chinese nursing home [0.03%]
"是你的心领你行事":对中国一家养老院工作场所诱发的情感的解读
Zhe Yan,Baozhen Luo
Zhe Yan
How Direct Care Workers (DCWs) interpret their work and perform care activities undeniably impacts the well-being of institutionalized older adults. Despite the emotionally charged nature of paid care work, little is known about how Chinese...
Ethics and the impossibility of the consent form: Ethnography in a Danish nursing home [0.03%]
伦理与知情同意表的不可能性——在一个丹麦养老院里的民族志研究
Emma Jelstrup Balkin,Mette Geil Kollerup,Ingjerd Gåre Kymre et al.
Emma Jelstrup Balkin et al.
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a nursing home in northern Denmark, this article addresses challenges experienced in putting formal ethics requirements into practice. We consider how to unite procedural ethics with actual, lived ethics, ...
What happens behind doors? Exploring everyday indoor activities when ageing in place [0.03%]
居家养老背景下,门后的世界:探索日常室内活动及其影响因素
Zeinab Sattari,Gerd Weitkamp,Louise Meijering
Zeinab Sattari
Engaging in social interaction and physical movement during everyday activities has a positive influence on wellbeing in later life. For older adults who age in place, the majority of activities occur indoors, yet studies typically focus on...
Age-based entitlement: An ageist practice or a tool for combatting ageism? [0.03%]
基于年龄的福利:一种年龄歧视的做法还是对抗年龄歧视的工具?
Håkan Jönson,Elisabeth Carlstedt,Tove Harnett
Håkan Jönson
Researchers in gerontology have addressed the way age-based arrangements may communicate stereotypical and devaluing images of older people, thereby linking high age to frailty and dependence. The present article considers proposed reforms ...
A conversational, small-story approach to narrative care for people with dementia living in care institutions: Strategies and challenges [0.03%]
对话式小故事方法在护理机构中痴呆症患者的叙事关怀中的策略与挑战
Feliciano Villar,Gerben J Westerhof
Feliciano Villar
The aim of the paper was to define what narrative care is and identify and discuss everyday conversational narrative care strategies regarding people living with dementia in long-term care institutional settings. To do so, we differentiate ...
The trouble with vulnerability. Narrating ageing during the COVID-19 pandemic [0.03%]
脆弱性的问题。在COVID-19大流行期间讲述老龄化的故事
Paula Vasara,Anna Simola,Antero Olakivi
Paula Vasara
In this paper, we have used the exceptional circumstances created by the COVID-19 pandemic as a window for investigating the ambivalent, stereotypical and often-incongruent portrayals of exceptional vulnerability and resilient self-manageme...
Filial piety, love or money? Foundation of old-age support in urban China [0.03%]
孝道、爱情还是金钱?中国城市老年人支持的基础
Jieyu Liu
Jieyu Liu
This article explores the intertwining issues of filial obligation, material interest and emotional intimacy in driving adult children's provision of old-age support in family settings. Drawing upon multi-generational life history interview...
Why do academics fail to plan for retirement? Employers' and employees' views [0.03%]
学术人为什么不做退休规划?雇主和雇员的观点
Jaquiline Amani,Baraka Luvanga,Honorata Kihaga et al.
Jaquiline Amani et al.
Studies have shown that early and informed retirement planning lead to a successful retirement transition, and adjustments. Despite this fact, it has been widely reported that most of employees inadequately plan for their retirement. Existi...