Ageing & SocietyPub Date : 2012-11-01DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X12000682
A. Tinker
{"title":"Jeanne Katz, Sheila Peace and Sue Spurr (eds), Adult Lives: A Life Course Perspective, The Policy Press, Bristol, UK, in association with The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK, 2012, 496 pp., pbk £26.99, ISBN 13: 978 1 44730 043 4.","authors":"A. Tinker","doi":"10.1017/S0144686X12000682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X12000682","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51364,"journal":{"name":"Ageing & Society","volume":"32 1","pages":"1446-1447"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0144686X12000682","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56841102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ageing & SocietyPub Date : 2012-10-01DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X11000973
Feliciano Villar
{"title":"Successful ageing and development: the contribution of generativity in older age","authors":"Feliciano Villar","doi":"10.1017/S0144686X11000973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X11000973","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the contributions that generativity in older age may make to the concept of successful ageing. To this end, two perspectives on successful ageing are described: successful ageing as a set of clinical criteria, and successful ageing as the application of adaptive processes aimed at achieving efficient functioning. After showing the limitations of the first perspective, particularly from a developmental point of view, the paper argues that the adaptive version of successful ageing helps to putageingintoadevelopmentalframe,butneedstobecomplementedbyidentifying specific content and goals that guide these adaptive processes and establish new feasible gains for older people. Generativity in older age could play that role and providesaconceptual frameworkthatenrichestheconceptofsuccessfulageing,both by emphasising the social contextin which people age and by highlighting a personal growth component.","PeriodicalId":51364,"journal":{"name":"Ageing & Society","volume":"32 1","pages":"1087-1105"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0144686X11000973","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56841485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ageing & SocietyPub Date : 2011-05-01DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X11000043
T. Maltby
{"title":"Reviews - Robert B. Hudson (ed.), The New Politics of Old Age Policy , 2nd edition, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 2010, 392 pp., pbk £15.50, ISBN 13: 978 0 8018 9492 3.","authors":"T. Maltby","doi":"10.1017/S0144686X11000043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X11000043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51364,"journal":{"name":"Ageing & Society","volume":"31 1","pages":"717-718"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2011-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0144686X11000043","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56841408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ageing & SocietyPub Date : 2011-05-01DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X11000031
B. McCormack, A. Ryan
{"title":"Reviews - Christina R. Victor, Ageing, Health and Care , The Policy Press, Bristol, UK, 2010, 232 pp., pbk £17.59, ISBN 13: 978 1 84742 087 9.","authors":"B. McCormack, A. Ryan","doi":"10.1017/S0144686X11000031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X11000031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51364,"journal":{"name":"Ageing & Society","volume":"31 1","pages":"716-717"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2011-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0144686X11000031","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56841322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ageing & SocietyPub Date : 2009-04-01DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X08008234
O. Gough
{"title":"Traute Meyer, Paul Bridgen and Barbara Riedmuller (eds), Private Pensions versus Social Inclusion? Non-State Provision for Citizens at Risk in Europe , Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK, 2007, 272 pp., hbk £69.95, ISBN 13: 978 1 84720 353 3.","authors":"O. Gough","doi":"10.1017/S0144686X08008234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X08008234","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51364,"journal":{"name":"Ageing & Society","volume":"1 1","pages":"488-489"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2009-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83041605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ageing & SocietyPub Date : 2008-01-01DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X07006526
A. Sanders, P. Scheltens
{"title":"Book review: Thompson SBN, Dementia and memory: a handbook for students and professionals. Ashgate. Aldershot, Hampshire, 2006","authors":"A. Sanders, P. Scheltens","doi":"10.1017/S0144686X07006526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X07006526","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51364,"journal":{"name":"Ageing & Society","volume":"28 1","pages":"137-138"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0144686X07006526","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56841223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ageing & SocietyPub Date : 2006-08-01DOI: 10.1017/s0144686x06225212
D. Phillips
{"title":"Hyunsook Yoon and Jon Hendricks (eds), Handbook of Asian Aging, Baywood, Amityville, New York, 2006, 512 pp., cloth $74.50, ISBN 0 89503 316 X.","authors":"D. Phillips","doi":"10.1017/s0144686x06225212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x06225212","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51364,"journal":{"name":"Ageing & Society","volume":"26 1","pages":"818 - 819"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s0144686x06225212","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56841211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}