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Bringing together essays by nineteen respected scholars, this volume approaches dementia from a variety of angles, exploring its historical, psychological, and philosophical implications. The authors employ a cross-cultural perspective that is based on ethnographic fieldwork and focuses on questions of age, mind, voice, self, loss, temporality, memory, and affect. Taken together, the essays make four important and interrelated contributions to our understanding of the mental status of the elderly. First, cross-cultural data show that the aging process, while biologically influenced, is also culturally constructed. Second, ethnographic reports raise questions about the diagnostic criteria used for defining the elderly as demented. Third, case studies show how a diagnosis affects a patient's treatment in both clinical and familial settings. Finally, the collection highlights the gap that separates current biological understandings of aging from its cultural meanings. As Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia continue to command an ever-increasing amount of attention in medicine and psychology, this book will be essential reading for anthropologists, social scientists, and health care professionals.
Anthropology. --- Dementia. --- Medical anthropology. --- Medical anthropology --- Dementia --- Alzheimer's disease --- Public health --- Alzheimer Disease --- Aged --- Anthropology --- Clinical Medicine --- Social Sciences --- Brain Diseases --- Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, Cognitive Disorders --- Medicine --- Tauopathies --- Adult --- Age Groups --- Behavioral Sciences --- Mental Disorders --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Health Occupations --- Central Nervous System Diseases --- Neurodegenerative Diseases --- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Nervous System Diseases --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Persons --- Named Groups --- Diseases --- Physical Anthropology --- Anthropological aspects --- Alzheimer's disease. --- Anthropological aspects. --- Medical care --- Alzheimer disease --- Alzheimer's dementia --- Aphrenia --- Aphronesia --- Athymia --- Dementias --- Basal ganglia --- Presenile dementia --- Senile dementia --- Brain --- Neurobehavioral disorders --- Psychoses
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Ethnology --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Fieldwork --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Recherche sur le terrain --- Aspect moral --- Field work. --- Fieldwork. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Moral and ethical aspects
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"The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible. Although encouraging and providing hope against this feared condition, this claim is open to scrutiny. This volume looks at how this new conceptualization ignores many of the factors which influence a dementia sufferers' prognosis, including their history with education, food and exercise as well as their living in different epistemic cultures. The central aim is to question the concept of prevention and analyze its impact on aging people and aging societies"--
Dementia --- Dementia. --- Aphrenia --- Aphronesia --- Athymia --- Dementias --- Brain --- Neurobehavioral disorders --- Psychoses --- Diseases
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The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible. Although encouraging and providing hope against this feared condition, this claim is open to scrutiny. This volume looks at how this new conceptualization ignores many of the factors which influence a dementia sufferers' prognosis, including their history with education, food and exercise as well as their living in different epistemic cultures. The central aim is to question the concept of prevention and analyze its impact on aging people and aging societies.
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Global mobility is one of the crucial phenomena of our time. Combining the theoretical frameworks of masculinity studies and age studies, the contributors to this volume examine the intersection of cultural exchange, gender and age, exploring ageing masculinities with reference to the key concepts of relationality, kinship and care. The essays analyze transcultural experiences of ageing men from Europe, relationships including the Indian diaspora in the US, Chinese father images in the US-American context and Black British queer kinship, drawing its examples also from Brazilian society and African European contexts.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology. --- Ageing. --- Aging Studies. --- Care. --- Culture. --- Gender Studies. --- Gender. --- Interculturalism. --- Masculinities. --- Sociology.
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Le vieillissement de la population est souvent traité, dans les discours politiques et médiatiques, comme une catastrophe démographique, un lourd fardeau social ou financier pour la société. Le vieillissement de la population et la vieillesse restent encore aujourd'hui fréquemment associés à des représentations négatives, à des idées toutes faites qui persistent dans le temps. L'ouvrage regroupe 31 textes qui font la lumière sur différents mythes persistants liés au vieillissement. Il aborde des thèmes variés, tels la retraite, les travailleurs âgés, le deuil, la violence, l'hébergement, la mobilité, le numérique, l'itinérance, la sexualité, les proches aidants, les capacités cognitives, le bénévolat, la participation sociale ou politique, vieillir en prison, vieillir avec un handicap, etc. Pour obtenir un portrait juste des personnes âgées, des spécialistes de plusieurs domaines et disciplines ont été invités à présenter un mythe, puis à le déconstruire ou à l'analyser dans toutes ses nuances. Sans compromis sur la qualité scientifique, les textes, courts et accessibles, ont pour objectif de permettre aux lectrices et aux lecteurs d'explorer les enjeux sociaux du vieillissement sous-jacents aux mythes analysés. Par cet ouvrage, nous espérons contribuer à une meilleure compréhension collective des défis, mais aussi des ajouts, d'une société vieillissante. Cet ouvrage est le fruit d'un projet collectif porté par l'Équipe de recherche en partenariat Vieillissements, exclusions sociales et solidarités (VIES) et par le Centre de recherche et d'expertise en gérontologie sociale (CREGÉS).
Population aging. --- Older people. --- Aging.
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