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Ageing with Disability: A Lifecourse Perspective
Author(s): Eva Jeppsson-Grassman (Author, Editor), Anna Whitaker
- Publisher: Policy Press
- Publication Date: 8 May 2013
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 152 pages
- ISBN-10: 1447305221
- ISBN-13: 9781447305224
Book Description
The first book to address the issue of aging with a long-term disability, “Ageing with Disability” breaks new ground through its particular lifecourse perspective, examining what it means to age with a physical or mental disability and what the implications are of “becoming old” for people who have had extensive disabilities for many years. It highlights the meaning of care in unexplored contexts, such as aging parents acting as caregivers or mutual care by disabled couples, areas of disability studies that have, until now, been totally neglected.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This book is a significant contribution to the study of ageing and disability from a life course perspective. It provides a fascinating, theoretically well-informed treatise of how older people make sense of disability. –Professor Rafael Lindqvist, Uppsala University, Sweden
This significant and original collection will change perspectives on the interplay between ageing and disability in ways that will be wholly beneficial to older people and policy making alike. –Joanna Bornat, Emeritus Professor, The Open University
About the Author
Eva Jeppsson Grassman is professor at Linkoping University in Sweden. Anna Whitaker is a senior lecturer and associate professor at Linkoping University and Ersta Skondal University College.
