Disability and Aging: Learning from Both to Empower the Lives of Older Adults (Disability in Society)

Kahana, Jeffrey S.; Kahana, Eva

ISBN 10: 1626375909 / ISBN 13: 9781626375901

Published by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2017

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Hardcover Book.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Disability and Aging: Learning from Both to Empower the Lives of Older Adults (Disability in Society)
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1626375909
• ISBN 13: 9781626375901
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

What is the lived experience of previously healthy older adults as they face disability in late life, and how is disability assimilated in their identity? How do prevailing practices facilitate―or limit―options for elders living with new disabilities? To address these questions, Jeffrey Kahana and Eva Kahana uniquely synthesize disability and gerontological perspectives to explore both the unfolding challenges of aging and the practices and policies that can enhance the lives of older adults.

Contents:

• The World of Late Life Disability.
• Contextualizing Aging and Disability.
• Learning from Gerontology.
• A Life-Course Perspective.
• Adventurous Aging Through International Travel.
• Mastering the Physical Environment.
• Enhancing the Nursing Home Environment.
• The Experience of Disability at the End of Life.
• Toward Better Public Policies.
• The Promise of Convergence in Gerontology and Disability Studies.

About the Author

Jeffrey S. Kahana is associate professor of history and codirector of the Center on Aging and Policy at Mount Saint Marry College. Eva Kahana is Distinguished University Professor and Pierce T. and Elizabeth D. Robson Professor of the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University, where she also is director of the Elderly Care Research Center.