{"title":"Guided Life Reviews by Students with Older Adults in an Assisted Living Facility","authors":"D. Haber","doi":"10.1080/19325610802145783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610802145783","url":null,"abstract":"A life review is a systematic examination of several dimensions of life leading to a recorded life story, usually in writing, but sometimes with the aid of video or audio equipment. This activity can be both a powerful educational tool and a community service when students conduct a guided life review in the community with vulnerable older adults. This article describes an innovative university course curriculum that links student life review projects to an assisted living facility. Master's level students guided older residents of this facility through a 25-page life review, and facilitated a group sharing of life stories at this community site. While older adults reported on how satisfied they were with this project, their feedback also revealed several ongoing educational issues that need to be addressed. There are also interesting entrepreneurial career prospects emerging in the life review field.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122153399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What do Elderly Japanese and Japanese Americans Have in Common","authors":"Christina E. Miyawaki Ma Msw","doi":"10.1080/19325610802145809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610802145809","url":null,"abstract":"A group of six Japanese and Japanese American elderly (age 83–102) living in a retirement community experienced 6 one-hour group sessions sharing reminiscences. Experiences of World War II, war concentration camp, being bilingual/bicultural, Japanese Saturday school, were shared and discussed. Clear evidence of inheritance of Japanese traditional virtues such as doryoku, enryo, gaman and shikataganai was observed despite the differences of their birthplace. Japanese folk songs with English phonetic translation were introduced and enjoyed. Sharing their life stories through activities such as reminiscence and songs positively influenced elders' enthusiasm in more active participation and resulted in extending their meeting hours.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129844587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hospice: A Volunteer's Response","authors":"Sandra S. Durfee Mla","doi":"10.1080/19325610701849527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610701849527","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116090983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Slice of Fruitcake: An Autoethnographic Reflection","authors":"Karen V. Lee","doi":"10.1080/19325610701851929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610701851929","url":null,"abstract":"The following autoethnography reveals the author's emotional upheaval during a CAT scan test. The turmoil causes her to reflect ethnographically inward and outward on her behavior as her writing complexly connects the personal and cultural dynamics and phenomena (Holt, 2003). She reveals the irony of living simultaneously in a culture of health and a culture of illness. Multiple layers of consciousness engage rational and irrational thoughts that question aspects of her life during the trauma. In doing so, her narrative implicates the question of epistemology of representation as stories are affected by actions, thoughts, and feelings surrounding patients overwhelmed by fear. In the end, the autoethnography exposes her inner thoughts and perceptions about the personal and cultural dynamics shaping aging, mortality, and physical breakdown.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128592581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Stone Angel Speaks: Older Women's Voices in Prose and Poetry","authors":"E. Ma, E. Ryan","doi":"10.1080/19325610701866885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610701866885","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we pay attention to the voices of older women, both as writers and as fictional characters, and listen to the stories they tell about aging and about their lives. As Canadians transplanted from the United States, we focus on Canadian writers but also include some Americans; we look at published authors, women writing and talking around their kitchen tables, and women in longterm care. We hope to show how storytelling by the older woman—the crone, the elder—can enhance her presence in the world and let her share her wisdom with future generations.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116039531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transcending the Reification of “Old Women's” Bodies: Some Sociological Theorists' Views∗","authors":"J. Weil","doi":"10.1080/19325610701862686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610701862686","url":null,"abstract":"Stereotypical images of older women's bodies are often produced within the field of gerontology. Sociological theorists' views offer an explanation as to the role that society and groups play in creating these negative images. Works by theorists such as Marx and Engels, De Beauvoir, Goffman, Bourdieu, Foucault, and Butler offer varied explanations as to how society creates these images and the functions these images hold in society. By reviewing the meaning of these socially constructed images, more is revealed about society's attitudes towards aging and gender rather than individual characteristics of older women. As gerontologists we must uncover the way negative stereotypes are created and consider how we can change them to improve the way older women's bodies are viewed in society.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125797624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“When I Wake Up in the Morning, It All Depends on What I Want to Do”: An Ethnography of Leisure in the Lives of Elderly Women","authors":"Beth Counihan","doi":"10.1080/19325610701849469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610701849469","url":null,"abstract":"This article is derived from a two-and-a-half year ethnographic inquiry into the nature of literacy development at the end of the life span, inspired by Barbara Myerhoff's 1978 classic Number Our Days, a study of elderly Jewish immigrant women at a senior center in Venice, California. In this research, I examined the relationship between the past and the present literacies of elderly women. The setting, the Peter Cooper Village/Stuyvesant Town (PCV/ST) Senior Lounge, is a recreation center in a private apartment complex in downtown Manhattan. PCV/ST (often called simply, StuyTown) was built by the insurance company Metropolitan Life as housing for returning servicemen after World War II and is one of the last enclaves of the white middle and working class in Manhattan—although due to gentrification, that is rapidly changing. The participants are all second generation Irish or Eastern European Jewish women in their 80s, who self-selected to first learn how to use the Internet in individual lessons, and the...","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"481 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122746798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Growing Old in Utopia","authors":"R. Kastenbaum","doi":"10.1080/19325610701839452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610701839452","url":null,"abstract":"Growing old was far more probable in Thomas More's (1516) Utopia than in any actual realm of the time. A skilled, educated, and physically fit citizenry enjoyed longevity along with the other benefits of a commonwealth with a rare blend of enduring moral values and energetic pursuit of material progress. From childhood's hour, citizens were programmed for a lifecourse procession through a just and rational society. Generations therefore differed little in attitude and lifestyle, therefore contributing to the social integration of the aged. Security did not come cheap, however. It came at the price of individual expression, intimate relationships, idle leisure, self-reflection, and the free play of mind. The grateful citizen's final affirmation was to die the good, approved Utopian death.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130454553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“The Journey, Not the Arrival, Matters” – Virginia Woolf and the Culture of Aging","authors":"E. Bettinger","doi":"10.1080/19325610701638110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610701638110","url":null,"abstract":"In her novels, particularly in Mrs Dalloway (1925) and The Years (1937), Virginia Woolf explores the complex formation of modern consciousness in relation to aging. In her literary texts, a multiplicity of perspectives produces a dynamic sense of reality, in which any notion of experience is shown to be deeply related to gender, class, sexuality and age. A sense of self emerges in communication with others, an exchange in which the life of the mind is solidly grounded in the body's life. Literary character is dissolved into a subject in process for whom questions of aging play a vital part. Alongside her literary texts, Woolf's diaries provide ample material for her reflections on the specifically gendered aspect of aging. In the diaries, Woolf continuously probes into territories of aging, testing out how tabooed topics like menopause, old age and death can be textualized.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131083073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond the Memoir: Telling Life Stories Using Multiple Literary Forms","authors":"K. Medeiros","doi":"10.1080/19325610701638052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610701638052","url":null,"abstract":"Critical discussions on written life stories and the elderly often focus on the memoir format alone. Consequently, the role that literary form plays in influencing what types of stories are voiced and what are silenced is often not addressed. This article describes an approach to written life story work that includes the use of several literary forms such as letters, poems, and third-person stories. Through writing examples from older adults who participated in a series of “Share Your Life Story” writing workshops, I argue that literary form greatly influences what story is voiced, and stress the importance of a multiform approach in life story work.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128903186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}