Cultural Context of Aging Book Contents
Fourth Edition
Jay Sokolovsky, Editor

Chapter 10 Aging and Society in the New Life Course
Philip Y. Kao and Steven M. Albert

Chapter 11 Ethnography, Technology Design, and the Future of “Aging in Place”
David Prendergast

Chapter 12 Imagining Institutional Care, Practicing Domestic Care: Inscriptions around Aging in Southern
GhanaCati Coe

Chapter 13 Eldersourcing and Reconceiving Work as Care: Lessons from Retirement on the Line
Caitrin Lynch

Chapter 14 Web Book Photo Essay: Curriculum Vitae: A Photographic Essay of Elderly Urban Workers from Peru
Gabriela Ramos Bonilla and Erika Jaclyn Tirado Ratto

Chapter 15 Web Book: Images of Aging: Cultural Representations of Later Life
Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth

Chapter 16 Web Book: Intergenerational Sites: New Trends in Urban Planning, Global Trends, and Good Practices from the United States and Beyond
Donna M. Butts

Chapter 17 Web Book: Global Perspectives on Widowhood and AgingMaria G. Cattell

Chapter 18 Web Book: Grandparenting Styles: The Contemporary Native American Experience
Joan Weibel-Orlando

Chapter 19 Web Book: Aging and the Age of Globalization
Christine L. Fry

Chapter 20 Communities of Care and Zones of Abandonment in “Super-Aged”
JapanIza Kavedzija

Chapter 21 Narrating the Future: The Demographic Imaginary in an Aging Thailand
Felicity Aulino

Chapter 22 Globalizing Late Life in China and Realigning the State, Family, and Market Interests for Eldercare
Hong Zhang

Chapter 23 Web Book: “One to One” and “Five by One”: The Senior Companions Program in China
Jeanne Shea

Chapter 24 Indigenous Mexican Elders Engage the 21st Century
Jay Sokolovsky

Chapter 25 Aging after Socialism: Global Capitalism, Social Transformation, and Retirement in Romania
Gerard A. Weber

Chapter 26 Migrant Elders and the Limits of Family Support in a Globalizing World
Jay Sokolovsky

Chapter 27 Detroit African Americans Fishing for Food and Heritage: Threats from Factory Toxins
Mark Luborsky and Andrea Sankar

Chapter 28 Web Book: Fare insieme : Making and Doing Things Together in Milan
Shireen Walton

Chapter 29 “Demasiado fuerte” (Too Tough): Puerto Rican Great-Grandmothers Discuss Familismo and Grandmothering in the U.S. Mainland
Marta Rodríguez-Galán

Chapter 30 Ancestral Landscapes of Culture: Ethnicity and Cemeteries in England
Doris Francis

Chapter 31 Web Book: Battling a New Epidemic: American Indian Elders and Diabetes 416
Linda Carson

Chapter 32 Web Book: Losing, Using, and Crafting Spaces for Aging: Muslim Iranian Americans in California’s Santa Clara Valley
Mary Hegland

Chapter 33 Web Book: Aging in Exile: Family Support and Emotional Well-Being among Older Cuban Immigrants in the United States
Iveris Martinez

Chapter 34 Web Book: Age of Wisdom: Elderly Black Women in Family and Church
Jane W. Peterson

Chapter 35 Web Book: The Structural Vulnerability of Older People in a Matrilineal Society: The Minangkabau of West Sumatra, Indonesia
Edi Indrizal, Philip Kreager, and Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill

Chapter 36 Old People Everywhere: The Future of Age-Friendly Communities
Philip B. Stafford

Chapter 37 Web Book Photo Essay: Working Together across Generations: An Experiment in Open Space Design
Iveris L. Martinez and Ebru Ozer

Chapter 38 Web Book: Growing Older in World Cities: Benefits and Burdens
Michael Gusmano

Chapter 39 Old Age Homes, Love, and Other New Cultures of Aging in Middle-Class India
Sarah Lamb

Chapter 40 Gray as Green: Civic Ecology, Community Gardens, and Elders Seeking Healing and Community
Jay Sokolovsky

Chapter 41 Web Book: Spaces of Age—About the Elderscapes of Charlotte County, Florida 512
Stephen Katz

Chapter 42 Web Book: An Organization for the Elderly, by the Elderly: A Senior Center in the United States
Yohko Tsuji

Chapter 43 Web Book Photo Essay: “Where Are the Bones in Their Noses?” Community Aged in North American RV Camps and in Papua New Guinea
Dorothy Counts and David Counts

Chapter 44 Beyond the Blue Zones: Insights from the Okinawa Centenarian StudyD. Craig Willcox, Bradley J. Willcox, Jordan Kondo, Matthew Rosenbaum, Jay Sokolovsky, and Makoto Suzuki

Chapter 45 The New Frontier of Robotics in the Lives of Elders: Perspectives from Japan and Europe
James Wright

Chapter 46 “Train Yourself Free”: How Elderly Citizens Exercise Freedom of Choice in the Danish State
Amy Clotworthy

Chapter 47 Web Book Photo Essay: Female Mutual Support in Kyoto and Kampala
Charlotte Hawkins and Laura Haapio-Kirk

Chapter 48 Web Book: Keeping the Elderly Alive: Global Entanglements and Embodied Practices in Long-Term Care in Southeast Italy
Gabriela Nicolescu

Chapter 49 Triangles of Care in Transnational Spaces of Aging: Social Engagements between Urban Tanzania, Oman, and the United States
Sandra Staudacher and Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund

Chapter 50 The Extended Body: On Aging, Disability, and Well-Being
Joel Michael Reynolds

Chapter 51 Web Book: “ Differently Young” and “Non-autosufficienti ”: Managing Old-Age Stigma in a Senior Center 668
Barbara Pieta

Chapter 52 Web Book: Heroic Stories of Dementia Care: Grandchildren as Caregivers and Fallacies of Care
Annette Leibing

Chapter 53 Web Book: Beyond the Institution: Dementia Care and the Promise of the Green House Project
Athena Mclean

Chapter 54 Web Book: The Future of Aging in Postindustrial ContextLarry PolivkaChapter 55 Web Book: Between Humans and Ghosts: The Decrepit Elderly in a Polynesian Society
Judith C. Barker

About the Editor and Contributors

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