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Social Science Disease & Health Issues

The Aging–Disability Nexus

edited by Katie Aubrecht, Christine Kelly & Carla Rice

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jun 2020
Category
Disease & Health Issues, People with Disabilities, Health Care Issues, Gerontology
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774863704
    Publish Date
    Jun 2020
    List Price
    $32.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774863674
    Publish Date
    Jun 2020
    List Price
    $89.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774863681
    Publish Date
    Feb 2021
    List Price
    $32.95

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As the global population ages, disability demographics are shifting. Societal transformation and global health inequities have changed who is likely to reach old age, who is likely to live with disability, and the relationship between aging and disability in various socio-cultural and geopolitical contexts.

 

The Aging–Disability Nexus breaks new ground by bringing gerontology and disability studies into dialogue with each other through a variety of empirical, conceptual, and pedagogical approaches. Contributors explore the tensions that shape the way disability and aging are understood, experienced, and responded to at both individual and systemic levels, while avoiding the common tendency to conflate these overlapping elements and map them onto a normative, faulty notion of the human life trajectory.

 

This perceptive work analyzes the distinction between aging with a disability and aging into disability, and reveals how multiple identities, socio-economic forces, culture, and community give form to our experiences.

About the authors

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Carla Rice is the Canada Research Chair in Care, Gender, and Relationships in the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences at the University of Guelph. She has more than 20 years of experience as a clinician, researcher, and media consultant on body image and beauty culture.

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Editorial Reviews

I really appreciated the breadth of topics, including experiences of dance among people with Parkinson’s; an arts-based initiative called Re•Vision, which seeks to disrupt normative narratives of aging and disability; and the stories of two women aging with and aging into cognitive disability. Furthermore, with few exceptions, most theoretical discussions are illustrated with compelling real world examples.

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