Ageing with Disability: A Lifecourse Perspective

by Eva Jeppsson Grassman, Anna Whitaker

Overview

The first book to address the issue of aging with a long-term disability, Ageing with Disability breaks new ground through its particular lifecourse perspective, examining what it means to age with a physical or mental disability and what the implications are of “becoming old” for people who have had extensive disabilities for many years. It highlights the meaning of care in unexplored contexts, such as aging parents acting as caregivers or mutual care by disabled couples, areas of disability studies that have, until now, been totally neglected.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447305224
Publisher:	Policy Press
Publication date:	09/28/2013
Series:	Policy Press - Ageing and the Lifecourse Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Eva Jeppsson Grassman is professor at Linköping University in Sweden. Anna Whitaker is a senior lecturer and associate professor at Linköping University and Ersta Sköndal University College.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

      Judith Phillips

1. Ageing with disability: An introduction

      Eva Jeppsson Grassman and Anna Whitaker

2. Time, age and the failing body: A long life with disability

      Eva Jeppsson Grassman

3. Disability, identity and ageing

      Lotta Holme

4. Is it possible to ‘age successfully’ with extensive physical impairments?

      Annika Taghizadeh Larsson

5. Being one’s illness: On mental disability and ageing

      Per Bülow and Tommy Svensson

6. In the shade of disability reforms and policy: Parenthood, ageing and lifelong care

      Anna Whitaker

7. Ageing and care among disabled couples

      Cristina Joy Torgé

8. Living and ageing with disability: Summary and conclusion

      Anna Whitaker and Eva Jeppsson Grassman

Index

Editorial Reviews

“This significant and original collection will change perspectives on the interplay between ageing and disability in ways that will be wholly beneficial to older people and policy making alike.” 

Joanna Bornat