Includes bibliographical references (p. [623]-716) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : human maturity and global aging in cultural context -- A global vision of aging, culture and context -- Global perspectives on the demography of aging -- Complaint discourse, aging and caregiving among the Ju/'hoansi of Botswana -- Beyond the grandmother hypothesis : evolutionary models of human longevity -- From successful aging to conscious aging -- Is killing necessarily murder? Moral questions surrounding assisted suicide and death -- Menopause : a biocultural event -- Web book : "Culture and the meaning of a good old age" -- The life-course and intergenerational ties in cultural and global context -- Elders, ancients, ancestors and the modern life course -- Images of aging : cultural representations of later life -- When old is new : cultural spaces and symbolic meaning in late life -- Global perspectives on widowhood and aging -- Web book: "Exchange and reciprocity among two generations of Japanese and American women" -- Web book : "Grandparenting styles : the contemporary Native American experience" -- Aging, globalization and societal transformations -- Globalization and the risks of aging -- The new realities of aging in contemporary China : coping with the decline in family care -- Aging proletariats in a twenty-first century indigenous Mexican community -- Transforming the cultural scripts for aging and elder care in Japan -- Standing up for others : the AMIGOS volunteer model for working with elders in Peru -- Danish home care policy and the family : implications for the United States -- The ethnic dimension in aging : culture, context and creativity -- Ethnic elders and the limits of family support in a globalizing world -- Losing, using and crafting spaces for aging : Muslim Iranian American seniors in California's Santa Clara Valley -- Aging in exile : family support and emotional well-being among older Cuban immigrants in the United States -- Ethnic and cross-cultural perspectives on custodial grandparenting -- African Americans growing older in Chicago : living in a time and place of change -- Web book : "Age of wisdom : elderly black women in family and church" -- Web book : "The social and cultural context of adaptive aging by southeast Asian elders" -- Web book : "Dementia in cultural context : development and decline of a caregivers support group in a Latin population" -- Families, communities and elderscapes : transforming cultural spaces for aging -- The structural vulnerability of older people in a matrilineal society : the Minangkabau of West Sumatra, Indonesia -- Growing older in world cities : benefits and burdens -- Elder residences and outsourced sons : remaking aging in cosmopolitan India -- Aging in the hood : creating and sustaining elder-friendly environments -- Elders, urban community greening and the rise of civic ecology -- Spaces of age, snowbirds and the gerontology of mobility : the elderscapes of Charlotte County, Florida -- Web book : "Social support systems of rural older women : a comparison of the United States and Denmark" -- Web book photo essay : "Where are the bones in their noses? Community aged in North American RV camps and in Papua New Guinea" -- Web book : "An organization for the elderly, by the elderly : a senior center in the United States" -- Web book : "One thousand points of blight : old, female and homeless in New York City" -- The quest for gerontopia : culture and health in late life -- Exceptional longevity and the quest for healthy aging : insights from the Okinawa Centenarian Study -- Eldertopia : a vision for old age in a new world -- La cura degli nostri cari anziani : family and community elder care roles in contemporary Italy -- Battling a new epidemic : American Indian elders and diabetes -- Brain failure, late life and culture in Japan -- The global Florida : long-term care in postindustrial countries -- Beyond the institution : dementia care and the promise of the Green House Project -- Between humans and ghosts : the decrepit elderly in a Polynesian society.
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