The Aging Experience: Diversity and Commonality Across CulturesIn an attempt to understand the meaning of ageing and the treatment of the aged in different cultures, seven anthropologists have made studies of 10 communities on four continents - the results of which are presented in this book. The authors use both qualitative and statistical data to examine such issues as: health and well-being, perceptions of the life course, material resources, and functionality of elders. A unique resource, The Aging Experience provides a detailed comparative analysis of ageing worldwide. |
Contents
Chapter 1 Botswana | 3 |
Chapter 2 Ireland | 27 |
Chapter 3 United States | 53 |
Chapter 4 Hong Kong | 83 |
Part II CrossCultural Comparisons | 99 |
Chapter 5 Age and WellBeing | 101 |
Chapter 6 Age and the Life Course | 144 |
Chapter 7 Political Economy and Age | 198 |
Chapter 8 Age Health and Functionality | 260 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
adult Age Game Age Groups Created American Angwa anthropology Bantu Blessington Botswana card sort cattle centers Chinese Chris Fry Clifden clinic cluster Connemara course Created by Respondents cultural decline differentiation domain economic elderly Female Gerontology health and functionality health problems Henry Harpending HERERO CLIFDEN Hong Kong hospital household important included individuals interview Ireland Irish kinship Kung and Herero Kung language lives located Male marriage married Medicare middle middle-aged group Momence Ngamiland Okavango Delta old age older persons older residents participant observation participation pattern physical political economy population Population Pyramid programs Project AGE questions relatives retirement role salience sample scale seniority Setswana seven sites societies stages status Swarth Swarthmore Swarthmore College Swarthmoreans tion town Tswana United variables variation villages welfare woman Yau Yat Chuen young younger