{"product_id":"the-aging-disability-nexus-hardback-9780774863674","title":"The Aging–Disability Nexus (Hardback) 9780774863674","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Aging–Disability Nexus\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKatie Aubrecht (Edited by), Christine Kelly (Edited by), Carla Rice (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780774863674\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 June 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Aging-Disability Nexus provides a comprehensive overview of current studies on the relationships between aging and disabilities[...]\u003c\/p\u003e (CHOICE Connect) \u003cp\u003eI really appreciated the breadth of topics, including experiences of dance among people with Parkinson's; an arts-based initiative called Re•Vision, which seeks to disrupt normative narratives of aging and disability; and the stories of two women aging with and aging into cognitive disability. Furthermore, with few exceptions, most theoretical discussions are illustrated with compelling real world examples.\u003c\/p\u003e - W. Ben Mortenson, associate professor, University of British Columbia (Occupational Therapy Now)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the global population ages, disability demographics are shifting. Societal transformation and global health inequities have changed who is likely to reach old age, who is likely to live with disability, and the relationship between aging and disability in various socio-cultural and geopolitical contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Aging–Disability Nexus\u003c\/em\u003e breaks new ground by bringing gerontology and disability studies into dialogue with each other through a variety of empirical, conceptual, and pedagogical approaches. Contributors explore the tensions that shape the way disability and aging are understood, experienced, and responded to at both individual and systemic levels, while avoiding the common tendency to conflate these overlapping elements and map them onto a normative, faulty notion of the human life trajectory. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis perceptive work analyzes the distinction between aging \u003cem\u003ewith\u003c\/em\u003e a disability and aging \u003cem\u003einto\u003c\/em\u003e disability, and reveals how multiple identities, socio-economic forces, culture, and community give form to our experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \/ \u003cem\u003eKatie Aubrecht, Christine Kelly, and Carla Rice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Conceptualizing the Nexus\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 Aging and Disability: The Paradoxical Positions of the Chronological Life Course \/ \u003cem\u003eAmanda Grenier, Meridith Griffin, and Colleen McGrath\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2 Spectres of Unproductive Life: The Aging–Disability–Dementia Complex \/ \u003cem\u003eLucy Burke\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3 Cripping Care Advice: Austerity, Advice Literature, and the Troubled Link between Disability and Old Age \/ \u003cem\u003eSally Chivers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4 Dancing In and Out of Control: Challenging the Myth of Bodily Mastery through the Lens of Parkinson's Disease \/ \u003cem\u003eMonique Lanoix\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: Politics of Care\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5 Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Care Policy: Toward a Critical Ethics of Care Approach \/ \u003cem\u003eMaggie FitzGerald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6 Directly Funded Home Care for Older Adults: Exploring the Legacies of Disability Activism \/ \u003cem\u003eChristine Kelly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7 Age, Disability, and Encounters with Care: Older People's Experiences of Home Care \/ \u003cem\u003eRachel Barken and Alan Santinele Martino\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8 Power, Agency, Aging, and Cognitive Impairment: The Stories of Two Women \/ \u003cem\u003eMargaret Oldfield and Nancy Hansen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9 Regulation of \"Care\" in Long-Term Care Homes in Ontario \/ \u003cem\u003ePoland Lai\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: Timescapes and Landscapes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10 Aging with and into Disability: Futurities of New Materialisms \/ \u003cem\u003eNadine Changfoot and Carla Rice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11 From Boomer to Zoomer: Aging with Vitality under Neoliberal Capitalism \/ \u003cem\u003eAnne McGuire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12 Deconstructing Dependency and Development in Global Dementia Policy \/ \u003cem\u003eKatie Aubrecht and Akwasi Boafo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13 Aging and Disability in the Time of AIDS: Reflections from Research with Older Women Caregivers in South Africa \/ \u003cem\u003eMay Chazan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e14 Disability, Age, the British Countryside, and Social Exclusion \/ \u003cem\u003eNathan Kerrigan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDialogue: Speaking from the Nexus\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThinking into Aging–Disability Nexuses: A Dialogue between Two Scholars \/ \u003cem\u003eRuth Bartlett and Alison Kafer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"UBC Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52531136626968,"sku":"9780774863674","price":55.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-aging-disability-nexus-hardback-9780774863674","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}