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Found 3 from your keywords: subject="Older people"
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Contemporary narratives of ageing, illness, care
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Sako, KatsuraFalcus, Sarah

This collection of essays explores cultural narratives of care in the contexts of ageing and illness. It includes both text-based and practice-based contributions by leading and emerging scholars in humanistic studies of ageing. The authors consider care not only in film (feature and documentary) and literature (novel, short story, children’s picturebook) but also in the fields of theatre per…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781003058618
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viii + 208 p
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362.6
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Ageing with smartphones in urban Brazil :a work in progress
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Duque, Marília

With people living longer all over the world, ageing has been framed as a socio-economic problem. In Brazil, older people are expected to remain healthy and autonomous while actively participating in society. Based on ethnographic research in São Paulo, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Brazil shows how older people in a middle-class neighbourhood conciliate these expectations with the freedom …

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ISBN/ISSN
9781787359963
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x, 293 p. ill;
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303.4833 AGE M
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In death’s waiting room
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The, Anne-Mei

In Death's Waiting Room is a penetrating story about people suffering from dementia in a multi-cultural society, relevant to us all. Anne-Mei The carried out two years of ethnographic research in a nursing home in the Netherlands revealing what usually remains hidden from the public: the decision to stop treatment, the cultural and social gap between the Dutch occupants and the black Caribbean …

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ISBN/ISSN
9789053560778
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203p : ill.
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362.19683 ANN i