{"title":"The Day Dad Died","authors":"E. Ryan","doi":"10.1080/19325610802698328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610802698328","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"392 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132609175","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":"Does Emma Woodhouse's Father Suffer from “Dementia”?","authors":"Margaret Morganroth Gullette","doi":"10.1080/19325610802523112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610802523112","url":null,"abstract":"Jane Austen's Emma is not usually read as a novel about two generations facing a troubling old age. But Emma spends an unusual amount of time, once left alone with her father, in soothing his anxieties and depressions, helping others to treat him appropriately, and judging them on their success. The most plausible reason why Mr. Woodhouse cannot be satirized, that squares with Austen's linguistic and moral values, is because he is cognitively unable to reform. His condition of impairment might now be called “dementia,” in an era of growing terror of Alzheimer's and alarmist demography. There are lessons to be learned from an earlier period before biogerontology that was not so afflicted. Our dread of forgetfulness has contributed to making American ageism more panicky and cruel.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125409869","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 Price Accommodation? An Exploration of One Woman's Struggle to Sustain Privilege While Receiving an Old Age Pension","authors":"Heather Dillaway, Chasity Bailey-Fakhoury","doi":"10.1080/19325610802462329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610802462329","url":null,"abstract":"According to recent literature on privilege and oppression, system-wide structures of class, race, and gender inequality are sustained at both the macro- and microlevel of society simultaneously. As an analysis of the microlevel process of how privilege might be sustained, using one case study from archives of the Luella Hannan Memorial Foundation, this article documents how the process of receiving aid might seemingly take privilege away from older, formally privileged women, and how individual aid recipients might resist this lack of power or privilege. Overall, this case highlights the dynamic nature of an individual's privilege, the process by which privilege is pursued and sustained at the microlevel, and the different types of privilege (e.g., economic or social, institutionally sanctioned or personal, macro or micro) that an individual might pursue in varying circumstances.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"abs/1512.05568 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117064324","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":"Plato's Theory of Late Life Reminiscence","authors":"P. Mckee","doi":"10.1080/19325610802370720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610802370720","url":null,"abstract":"Plato was a careful observer of the life review process and regarded it as an important source of philosophical insight. In several dialogues he presented a penetrating theory of late life reminiscence, anticipating much of what gerontologists now know about it. His treatment differs from recent approaches to life review by engaging epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical issues that this process implies. Exploring these philosophical issues through the eyes of the elderly Socrates, Plato articulates the subtle logical form characterizing certain life review judgments, arguing that they are based on a crucially important “retroactive” constitution of certain moral properties.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128103507","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":"Establishing a Clientele: Cases of Acceptance and Denial for Pensions in Old Age","authors":"M. Durocher, Gillian Gray","doi":"10.1080/19325610802462147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610802462147","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on statistics from the archives of the Luella Hannan Memorial Home, including the number of applications filed between 1927 and 1933, the gender, race, marital status and educational backgrounds of the applicants, the number of cases denied and accepted, and the reasons for these decisions, the authors characterize the “Hannan-type” as one who met the discursive, cultural, and organizational expectations of the sponsoring institution.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"540 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120979937","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":"Relations of Power: Issues of Gender and Class in the Struggle for “Security” in Old Age, 1927–1933","authors":"R. E. Ray","doi":"10.1080/19325610802462089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610802462089","url":null,"abstract":"What was it like to be old, poor, and female in the 1920s and 1930s? What kinds of struggles and negotiations did older women, including those who had once been financially comfortable and socially prominent, engage in to meet their needs during the Great Depression? These are the questions we take up in this special section of the Journal of Aging, Humanities and the Arts. Our approach is interdisciplinary, with an emphasis on close readings and narrative analysis of case files kept by social workers (called “Visitors”) on women age 60 and older who applied for pensions from a private foundation, the Luella Hannan Memorial Home (LHMH) in Detroit, Michigan between 1927 and 1933. This introduction draws on feminist theories to define “power” as a dynamic and relational process that includes both accommodation and resistance. A sociohistorical context is provided for the articles in the issue, all of which are based on LHMH archives, stored at the Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne ...","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134033516","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":"Identity and Empowerment: Resistance to Institutional Discourse in a Human Service Organization","authors":"D. R. Griffin, Katrice C. Townsend, S. Cheng","doi":"10.1080/19325610802462444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610802462444","url":null,"abstract":"Human Service Organizations (HSOs) have historically provided much needed assistance to the unemployed, underemployed and other individuals who have fallen victim to harsh economic times. These organizations, particularly beneficial to women during times of great economic crisis, are sites of identity formation and often sites of resistance (Trethewey, 1997). Using one case from the Luella Hannan Memorial Foundation collection, this article revisits communication scholar Angela Trethewey's 1997 work, which argues that HSO clients come to understand who they are discursively through negotiated exchanges with case workers who play a major role in deciding the extent of their care. This article explores the sociohistorical positioning and “imaging” of elderly women in America and how those images are reified and resisted rhetorically by the women of the Luella Hannan Memorial Home. We examine the double-edged nature of resistance, where clients are often simultaneously victims and agents, negotiating institu...","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127176947","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":"Crossing the Street","authors":"N. Molesko","doi":"10.1080/19325610802483127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610802483127","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"137 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124632251","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}
Janet L. Langlois, T. Jankowski, M. Durocher, E. Chapleski
{"title":"Otherwise Destined for Eloise: Dread, Contentment, and the Public Alternative to Private ‘Relief’ in Old Age","authors":"Janet L. Langlois, T. Jankowski, M. Durocher, E. Chapleski","doi":"10.1080/19325610802462204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610802462204","url":null,"abstract":"The horror of the poorhouse “cast a wide shadow” in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. Almost everyone was afraid of ending his or her life in an institution that was ostensibly designed for public relief, but which occasioned fear since colonial times, never more so than in the beginning of the Great Depression. We build a case that the specter of the Wayne County, Michigan poorhouse, popularly known as “Eloise,” influenced Luella Hannan Memorial Home (LHMH) administrative decisions and the life courses of its aged applicants and clients, primarily women, in a number of crucial ways that relate to broader national issues concerning aging.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129003630","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":"Excerpt from “To Love What Is”","authors":"A. Shulman","doi":"10.1080/19325610802494710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610802494710","url":null,"abstract":"In the summer of 1950, upon my graduation from high school, my future husband and I, 20 and 17, had a secret love affair—after which we went our separate ways. Thirty-four years later we reunited, and for the two decades we lived together we prided ourselves on our independence, freedom, and trust, separately pursuing our vocations (he a sculptor, I a writer). Then, on July 22, 2004, in a remote beach cabin on a Maine coastal island, my love fell nine feet from the sleeping loft to the floor—breaking most of his ribs, puncturing both lungs, and sustaining multiple blood clots in his brain. With that injury, which left him like someone with advanced Alzheimer's, our treasured independence vanished. He was 75 and I was 72. For the entire first year after the fall, my sole purpose was to heal him. But in the second year, I recognized that though his bones had healed, his brain damage was permanent, and I changed my goal to creating for us the most satisfying life I could.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124143409","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}