Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland: Memory, Kinship, and Personhood

by Jessica Robbins

Book Overview

Active aging programs that encourage older adults to practice health-promoting behaviors are proliferating worldwide. In Poland, the meanings and ideals of these programs have become caught up in the sociocultural and political-economic changes that have occurred during the lifetimes of the oldest generations--most visibly, the transition from socialism to capitalism. Yet practices of active aging resonate with older forms of activity in late life...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978813961
• ISBN13: 9781978813960
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher