Description

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Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure advances the critical discourse on gerontology, offering new understandings of key social and ethical dilemmas facing aging societies. Connecting approaches that have been relatively isolated from one another, it integrates two major streams of thought within critical gerontology: analyses of structural issues in the context of political economy and humanist perspectives on issues of existential meaning, providing indispensable reading for scholars, students, policy makers, and practitioners in gerontology and humanism studies.

About the Author

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Jan Baars is professor of gerontology at the University of Humanistic Studies.

Joseph Dohmen is professor of philosophical and practical ethics at the University of Humanistic Studies.

Amanda Grenier is director of the Gilbrea Centre for Studies in Aging and a Professor in Health Aging and Society at McMaster University, Canada.

Chris Phillipson is professor of sociology and social gerontology at the University of Manchester.

Praise For…

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"A much-needed integration of two relatively new but flourishing areas of ageing studies, which have developed separately up to now. I gained fresh insights from each and every chapter."
— Peter G. Coleman, University of Southampton