Transitions and the Lifecourse: Challenging the Constructions of 'Growing Old'

Description

Transitions and the life course: Challenging the constructions of 'growing old' explores and challenges dominant interpretations of transitions as they relate to ageing and the life course. It takes a unique perspective that draws together ideas about late life as expressed in social policy and socio-cultural constructs of age with lived experience. The book is aimed at academics and students interested in social gerontology, policy studies in health and social care, and older people's accounts of experience.

Amanda Grenier is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at McGill University, Affiliated Researcher of the Centre for Research and Expertise in Social Gerontology at the CSSS Cavendish, Montreal, Canada and Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for Life Course Studies at Keele University, UK. Her research focuses on the intersections of policy, organisational practice, and lived experience in relation to issues such as ageing, frailty and care.

"Grenier challenges assumptions that underlay most gerontology theories, policies and services, concluding that models of successful ageing deny the reality of physical decline that shapes the experiences of all who survive into late old age. This book is a must read for those concerned with the implications of global ageing." Sheila M. Neysmith, Associate Dean of Research, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and Professor & RBC Chair in Applied Social Work Research, University of Toronto