Leaing to Be Old:Gender, Culture, and Aging

Margaret Cruikshank’s Leaing to Be Old examines what it means to grow old in America today. The book questions social myths and fears about aging, sickness, and the other social roles of the elderly, the over-medicalization of many older people, and ageism. In this book, Cruikshank proposes alteatives to the ways aging is usually understood in both popular culture and mainstream gerontology. Leaing to Be Old does not propose the ideas of “successful aging” or “productive aging,” but more the idea of “leaing” how to age. Featuring new research and analysis, the third edition of Leaing to be Old demonstrates, more thoroughly than the previous editions, that aging is socially constructed. Among texts on aging the book is unique in its clear focus on the differences in aging for women and men, as well as for people in different socioeconomic groups. Cruikshank is able to put aging in a broad context that not only focuses on how aging affects women but men, as well. Key updates in the third edition include changes in the health care system, changes in how long older Americans are working especially given the impact of the recession, and new material on the brain and mind-body interconnections. Cruikshank impressively challenges conventional ideas about aging in this third edition of Leaing to be Old. This will be a must-read for everyone interested in new ideas surrounding aging in America today.

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Paperback: 296 pages

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 3rd Revised edition edition (14 Feb 2013)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1442213655

ISBN-13: 9781442213654
Margaret Cruikshank (Author)

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