Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology

1. Revisiting Cultural Gerontology: Exploring the Landscape Ten Years On PART 1: THE POLITICS AND THEORISING OF AGEING 2. From Successful Ageing to Ageing Well 3. The Cultural Turn in Gerontology 4.Transitions and Time in an Unstable Context 5. Global and Local Ties and the Reconstruction of Later Life 6. Money and Finance in Later Life 7.The Civic Culture in Ageing Societies 8. Aged by Culture in the New COVID Era 9. Intersectionality and Paradoxes of Age Inequality 10. Culture, Ethnicity, Race, and Migrancy 11. The Race(ing) of Ageing Studies: Disrupting the Veil of Whiteness 12. Indigenous Elders, Older Adults, and Ageing 13. Beyond the View of the West: Ageing Anthropology PART 2: MATERIALITY AND EMBODIMENT 14. Theorising Embodiment and Ageing 15. An Intersectional Considerations of Ageing and the Body 16. Sex, Sexuality and Later Life 17. The Smile in Older Age 18. Dress and Age 19. Materiality and Ageing 20. Architectural Imaginaries and Cultures of Care in Later Life 21. Meanings of Home and Age 22. Gardens and Gardening in Later Life 23. Cemeteries and Age 24. Ageing, Physical Activity and Sport PART 3: CULTURES OF CARE 25. Cultures of Care 26. Personhood and the Dilemmas of Dementia Care 27. Dementia and Embodiment 28. The Fourth Age 29. Loneliness and Isolation 30. Suffering and Pain in Old Age 31. Medical Humanities and Cultural Gerontology PART 4: IDENTITIES AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS 32. Anti-Ageing and Identities 33. Representations of Ageing in the Media 34. Youth Culture, Ageing and Identity 35. Gender: Some Implications of a Contested Concept and Area of Social Life 36. Queering Cultural Gerontology 37. Ethnographies of Ageing 38. The Value of Religion, Spirituality, and Humanism to Older People 39. Ageing Workers 40. Lifestyle Migration, Ageing, and the Meaning of Relative Privilege 41. Widowhood and its Cultural Representations 42. Ageing and Biographical Methods PART 5: ARTS AND TECHNOLOGIES 43. Art, Ageing and the Gendered Body 44. Literature and Age 45. Ageing in Film 46. Visual Methods in Ageing Research 47. Celebrity Culture and Ageing 48. Ageing and Popular Music 49. Rethinking Late-Life Creativity: Beyond 'Late Style' 50. Ageing Playfully 51. From Chronological Age to Biomarkers of Ageing: A Historical Cultural Sociology 52. Science, Technology and Ageing 53. The Co-Constitution of Ageing and Technology in a Cultural Context