Aging and Everyday Life

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

Part I: Conceptualizing the Aging Experience:.

1. The Cultural Trap: The Language of Images: Haim Hazan (Tel Aviv University).

2. The Personal Trap: The Language of Self-Presentation: Haim Hazim (Tel Aviv University, Israel).

3. Further Thoughts on the Theory of Disengagement: Elaine Cumming (retired, formerly at the State University of New York, Albany).

4. A Current Theoretical Issue in Social Gerontology: Arnold M. Rose (deceased, formerly of the University of Minnesota).

5. A Continuity Theory of Normal Aging: Robert C. Atchley (retired, formerly at Columbia University).

Part II: Aging and Identity:.

6. A Decade of Reminders: Changing Age Consciousness Between Fifty and Sixty Years Old: David A. Karp (Boston College).

7. Identity Foreclosure: Women's Experiences of Widowhood as Expressed in Autobiographical Accounts: Deborah Kestin Van Den Hoonard (St. Thomas University, Canada).

8. The Ageless Self: Sharon R. Kaufman (University of California, San Francisco).

Part III: Work and Retirement:.

9. Retirement as a Social Role: Robert C. Atchley (retired, formerly at Miami University, Ohio).

10. The Unbearable Lightness of Retirement: Joel Savishinsky (Ithaca College, New York).

11. "One of Your Better Low-Class Hotels": Joyce Stephens (State University of New York at Fredonia).

"Making It": Joyce Stephens (State University of New York at Fredonia).

Part IV: Interpersonal Relationships:.

13. Friendship Styles: Sarah H. Matthews (Cleveland State University).

14. The Significance of Work Friends in Late Life: Doris Francis (formerly at the New School for Social Research, New York).

15. Filial Obligations and Kin Support for Elderly People: Janet Finch (University of Keele, UK) and Jennifer Mason (University of Leeds, UK).

Part V: Living Arrangements:.

16. Parental Dependence and Filial Responsibility in the Nineteenth Century: Hial Hawley and Emily Hawley Gillespie, 1884-1885: Emily K. Abel (University of California, Los Angeles).

17. An Old Age Community: Arlie Russell Hochschild (University of California, Berkeley).

18. Resisting Institutionalization: Constructing Old Age and Negotiating Home: Pia C. Kontos (University of Toronto).

Part VI: The Aging Body:.

19. Managing Aging in Young Adulthood: The 'Aging' Table Dancer: Carol Rambo Ronai (University of Memphis).

20. Narratives of the Gendered Body in Popular Autobiography: Mary M. Gergen (Pennsylvania State University) and Kenneth J. Gergen (Swarthmore College).

21. Stigmatizing a 'Normal' Condition: Urinary Incontinence in Late Life: Linda S. Mitteness (University of California, San Francisco) and Judith C. Barker (University of California, San Francisco).

Part VII: The Aging Mind: .

22. Geriatric Ideology: The Myth of the Myth of Senility: James S. Goodwin (University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston).

23. Bringing the Social Back in: A Critique of the Biomedicalization of Dementia: Karen A. Lyman (Chaffey College, California).

24. The Mask of Dementia: Images of 'Demented Residents' in a Nursing Ward: Hava Golander (Tel Aviv University) and Aviad E. Raz (Tel Aviv University).

Part VIII: Caring and Caregiving:.

25. The Dependent Elderly, Home Health Care, and Strategies of Household Adaptation: Steven M. Albert (Columbia University).

26. The Unencumbered Child: Family Reputations and Responsibilities in the Care of Relatives with Alzheimer's Disease: Judith Globerman (University of Toronto).

27. Nursing Homes as Trouble: Timothy Diamond (California State University, Los Angeles).

Part IX: Death and Bereavement:.

28. A Death in Due Time: Conviction, Order, and Continuity in Ritual Drama: Barbara Myerhoff (deceased, previously at the University of Southern California).

29. Death in Very Old Age: A Personal Journey of Caregiving: Betty Risteen Hasselkus (University of Wisconsin).

30. The Social Context of Grief Among Adult Daughters Who Have Lost a Parent: Jennifer Klapper, Sidney Moss, Miriam Moss (all Philadelphia Geriatric Center), and Robert L. Rubinstein (University of Maryland, Baltimore).

Index.