The New Age of Ageing: How Society Needs to Change

by Eileen Carnell, Caroline Lodge, Marianne Coleman

Society does something strange to us as we get old. We are no longer seen as valued participants in the world but marginalized as burdens and problems to be solved. We become the other. This book presents a different vision of the future. Drawing on fifty interviews with people aged fifty to ninety, it proves aging is not simply passive decline but a process of learning, joy, political engagement, challenge, and achievement. For example: Mary, 83,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447326830
• ISBN13: 9781447326830
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.7"