Fourth Edition The Cultural Context of Aging, 2020 Jay Sokolovsky, Editor

The consequences of global aging will influence virtually all areas of life to be encountered in the 21st century, including the biological limits of healthy longevity, the generational contract and nature of family ties, technology and eldercare robots, the transformation of families and communities, late life employment, symbolic representations of midlife and old age; and changing attitudes toward age and disability. It includes an expanded web book with both new innovative articles and select chapters from previous editions. The new 4th edition of the award winning book The Cultural Context of Aging: World-Wide Perspectives covers all these topics and more. Here, readers will encounter:

  • Japan’s robotic granny minders
  • The laughing clubs of India
  • Smartphones and elder health
  • The Centenarian Diet Plan of Okinawa
  • Waltzing elders of urban China
  • Ethnic cemeteries as ancestral landscapes of culture
  • Aging in a true woman-centered society

  • How to create intergenerational contact zones
  • Elderscapes of Florida
  • Denmark’s “Flexsecurity” elder care system
  • The Global elder-friendly communities movement
  • Transnational elder care connecting Tanzania with the U.S., Europe and the Middle East
  • Rumanian elder care women in Italy
  • The Arts in dementia care