Stefano Ramello
Stefano Ramello
For many men in modern Western societies it is not uncommon to have anonymous same-sex acts in cruising places with a varying frequency depending on many factors, e.g. their biographical history, marital status, religion, and age. This pape...
Howard Litwin,Adi Meir
Howard Litwin
This study sought to clarify what drives economic worries among older people. Based upon the data from a national sample of adults aged 65 and older in Israel (N=550), we examined associations between financial worry and economic status, li...
Heidi Igarashi,Karen Hooker,Deborah P Coehlo et al.
Heidi Igarashi et al.
Incorporating a life course perspective, this qualitative study used focus groups to explore the experiences of midlife adults who were simultaneously providing support to emerging adult children and aging parents. Results indicated that ad...
Janine L Wiles,Ranmalie Jayasinha
Janine L Wiles
Older people are often positioned as passive recipients of care and dependent on resources or as overly productive and active. In this paper, we seek a more nuanced, middle ground between such stereotypes, by exploring the question: what co...
Lydia K Manning
Lydia K Manning
In this qualitative study I explore how Pagan women conceptualize aging, more specifically social aging, through the ritual process of being a Pagan and becoming a Crone. The central question of this research revolves around how older women...
Changing everyday activities of couples in late life: converging and keeping up [0.03%]
晚年夫妻日常活动的改变：汇聚与跟上对方的步伐
Fenna van Nes,Hans Jonsson,Tineke Abma et al.
Fenna van Nes et al.
The influence of mutual spousal interrelations in domains such as health and wellbeing has been demonstrated, but little is known about the domain of everyday activities of couples in late life. In the present explorative study, we consider...
Age and subcultural differences on personal and general beliefs about memory [0.03%]
年龄和亚文化对个人记忆和通用记忆信仰的差异
Elena Cavallini,Sara Bottiroli,Maria Chiara Fastame et al.
Elena Cavallini et al.
This study examined age and cultural differences on both personal and general beliefs about memory by comparing three age groups within two subcultures belonging to the same country: Milanese and Sardinian. Two innovative instruments on gen...
Ending aging in the Shteyngart of Eden: biogerontological discourse in a Super Sad True Love Story [0.03%]
延长寿命的施特恩加特式伊甸园叙事：《超级悲伤的真实爱情故事》中的生物老年学话语分析
Ulla Kriebernegg
Ulla Kriebernegg
This article broaches the topic of biogerontology as presented in Gary Shteyngart's dystopic novel Super Sad True Love Story(2010) from the perspective of cultural and literary gerontology and examines how the novel manages to challenge pre...
Jeanne Katz,Caroline Holland,Sheila Peace
Jeanne Katz
This article draws on findings from a study commissioned by the British charity, The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, to explore the needs and aspirations of older people who for whatever reason require a high degree of assistance. The study exp...
Narrating ageing: deconstructing negative conceptions of old age in four contemporary English novels [0.03%]
叙事与老龄化：解构当代四部英国小说中的消极老年观
Maricel Oró-Piqueras
Maricel Oró-Piqueras
Characters in their late sixties, seventies and even eighties have become the main protagonists and narrators in contemporary fiction. Narratives of ageing not only allow the reader to go into deep confines of an ageing protagonist, they al...