Overview
- Speaks to the importance of understanding aging across diverse cultures from multiple perspectives and trans-disciplines
- Uses theories, stories and best practices in showing the uniqueness of cultural groups while emphasizing the importance of sharing resources as we age
- Responds to clinical, research, teaching, and policy needs of aging populations
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Aging (Int. Perspect. Aging, volume 9)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- African American lesbian elders
- Aging across cultures and populations
- Aging and eldercare
- Aging and gerontology
- Aging and mistreatment
- Aging in the urban environment
- Diverse aging communities
- Healthy aging
- Human-animal bond
- Long term short term care
- Mental health and aging
- Mental health disparities
- Minority and immigration status
- Multicultural aging
- Racism and sexism
- Social context
- Spirituality and religion
- Urban and Rural communities
- Victimization of older adults
About this book
The collective, inclusive, and intersectional framework used in this book speaks to the significance of understanding aging across diverse cultures from multiple perspectives, but still as a shared human experience. The underlying message of the book is that although we are unique and different in our aging processes, we are ultimately connected through this physical, mental and spiritual experience of aging. Thus, regardless of whether we are service providers, service recipients, educators or merely fellow human beings, it is important that we approach the aging experience through a collective lens for discovering and sharing resources as we age; honoring the past while simultaneously accepting that the future is here. A few select examples of key findings from this collaborative work are as follows. First, despite progress in the field, certain issues remain to be addressed including the challenges of racism and sexism, mistreatment, the digital divide, poverty, and other social and economic crises in urban and rural communities as they relate to our aging population. Second, the need for sustaining a sense of independence among the aged and interdependence among supportive systems is warranted. Third, our elders continue to benefit from culturally competent services community-based health interventions and social services that addresses normative and emerging challenges for them. Fourth, spirituality in both indigenous and contemporary perspectives remains important for our elders’ development and quality of life.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Collective Spirit of Aging Across Cultures
Editors: Halaevalu F.Ofahengaue Vakalahi, Gaynell M. Simpson, Nancy Giunta
Series Title: International Perspectives on Aging
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8594-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8593-8Published: 07 February 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0652-8Published: 18 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-8594-5Published: 28 January 2014
Series ISSN: 2197-5841
Series E-ISSN: 2197-585X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 286
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Aging, Geriatrics/Gerontology, Cultural Studies