INTRODUCTION PART I WEB RESOURCES

Web Special: A good place to check out the latest global data on aging is at: The United Nations Aging Theme Data:  https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/content/ageing-1

Project to Follow: The Reassessing Aging from a Population Perspective (Re-Aging) project. It seeks to develop new approaches to the study of age and aging that are appropriate for 21st century conditions.  https://previous.iiasa.ac.at/web/home/research/plan/2021-24.html

Web Special: South Korea Prepares The Young For A Rapidly Aging Population  https://www.npr.org/2013/01/04/168615553/south-korea-prepares-the-young-for-a-rapidly-aging-population.

Web Special: See the implications for Aging in the USA at:  https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2018/03/graying-america.html

Web Special: Why Grandmothers May Hold The Key To Human Evolution. From NPR: June 7, 2018. By John Poole. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/07/617097908/why-grandmothers-may-hold-the-key-to-human-evolution

Web Special: See this article which talk about an emerging shift in India toward a more Western construct of Successful Aging: The “Good Life”: Third Age, Brand Modi and the cultural demise of old age in urban India,:  https://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/anthro-age/article/view/208/236

Conscious Aging Organizations  https://elders.mkp.org/resources/conscious-aging-alliance/  

Web Special: The Woman and Ageing Research Network  https://womenandageing.network/about-us/

Projects to Follow: With the growing focus on global aging there has emerged various indexes to measure how well societies promote the well being of its older citizens.

1. Global AgeWatch Index from HelpAge –  https://www.helpage.org/global-agewatch/reports/global-agewatch-index-2013-insight-report-summary-and-methodology/

2. Global Aging and Well-Being Index  https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/new-global-aging-index-gauges-health-and-wellbeing-aging-populations

CH 1. He & Kinsella; Global Aging in the New Millennium

The Global Burden of Disease Project: Information about and current estimates from this multifaceted study may be found at:  https://www.healthdata.org/gbd/2019

Added Value: Negotiating Ageing: Cultural Adaptation to the Prospect of a Long Life, Simon Biggs. 2018. Routledge.

CH 2. Rosenberg; Complaint Discourse, Aging and Caregiving Among the Ju/’Hoansi’ of Botswana

WEB SPECIAL: 1. HelpAge video: “Namibia: Delivering Pensions to Remote Communities.”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGSrtuWQxAo2. For documentation about pensions in Botswana and Namibia see the following:  https://www.pension-watch.net/country-fact-file/botswana/; https://www.social-protection.org/gimi/RessourcePDF.action?id=53950)

CH 3. Gurven & Kaplan; Beyond the Grandmother Hypothesis: Evolutionary Models of Human Longevity

Added Value: “Studies lend support to ‘grandmother hypothesis,’ but there are limits” Science Daily February 7, 2019  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190207142230.htm

CH 4. Lamb; “You Don’t Have to Act or Feel Old”: Successful Aging as a U.S. Cultural Project

Added Value: Successful aging in Spanish older adults: the role of psychosocial resources. Cristina G. Dumitrache, Laura Rubio1 and Eulogio Cordón-Pozo. International Psychogeriatrics (2019), 31:2, 181–191.  https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/9F2A7A260BA3A963CC1A80CBCA5E6B61/S1041610218000388a.pdf/successful_aging_in_spanish_older_adults_the_role_of_psychosocial_resources.pdf

Added Value: “Cultural Variations in Perceptions of Aging.” James Gire. 2019. In Cross‐Cultural Psychology: Contemporary Themes and Perspectives, 2nd Edition, Kenneth Keith, ed. Wiley.

CH 5. Fry; Culture and the Meaning of a Good Old Age

Added Value: “Leading a meaningful life at older ages and its relationship with social engagement, prosperity, health, biology, and time use.” Andrew Steptoe and Daisy Fancourt. 2019. PNAS, 116 (4) 1207-1212.  https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/116/4/1207.full.pdf

CH 6. Moody; From Successful Aging to Conscious Aging

Added Value: “Stumbling upon the three secrets of aging,” John Robinson. 2018. Journal of Religion, Spirituality & Aging, 30:2:100-111.  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15528030.2016.1265476

CH 7. Beyene; Menopause: A Biocultural Event

Added Value: “The female aging body: A systematic review of female perspectives on aging, health, and body image.“ Erin Cameron. 2019. Journal of Women & Aging, 31:1, 3 17.   https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08952841.2018.1449586#aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGFuZGZvbmxpbmUuY29tL2RvaS9wZGYvMTAuMTA4MC8wODk1Mjg0MS4yMDE4LjE0NDk1ODY/bmVlZEFjY2Vzcz10cnVlQEBAMA==

CH 8. Bishop & Westwood; Trans(gender)/gender-diverse ageing

Added Value: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Aging. American Psychological Association.  https://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/aging

Added Value: ‘When I was transgender’ Visibility, subjectivity, and queer aging in Indonesia — by Benjamin Hegarty Medical Anthropology Theory, Jan 2017  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318696600_’When_I_was_transgender’_Visibility_subjectivity_and_queer_aging_in_Indonesia 

Added Value: LGBTI Ageing and Aged Care Special Issue October 2015 Volume 34, Issue Supplement S2 Pages 1–44; all articles at  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajag.2015.34.issue-s2/issuetoc

Added Value: Peel, E. and R Harding, 2016. Ageing and Sexualities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Farnham: Ashgate. See Introduction at:  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/306012438_Ageing_and_Sexualities_Interdisciplinary_Perspectives

Added Value: M. Silverman and A. Baril. 2019. “Forgotten lives: Trans older adults living with dementia at the intersection of cisgenderism, ableism/ cogniticism and ageism.” Sexualities, 2019.  https://www.academia.edu/40621602/Forgotten_lives_Trans_older_adults_living_with_dementia_at_the_intersection_of_cisgenderism_ableism_cogniticism_and_ageism_Sexualities_2019_

CH 9. Glascock; Is Killing Necessarily Murder? Moral Questions Surrounding Assisted Suicide and Death

Added Value: “Anthropologies of Hope and Despair: Disability and the Assisted-Suicide Debate,” David Elliot. 2018. Journal of Disability & Religion, 22:3, 352-367.  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/23312521.2018.1486774?needAccess=true