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Series editor’s foreword

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2022

Ricca Edmondson
Affiliation:
National University of Ireland Galway
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Summary

Wisdom, the meaning of and in life, lived experience, identity and the lifecourse concepts highlighted by Ricca Edmondson in this book describe the very essence of the ‘Ageing and the Lifecourse’ series. The book provides a critical approach to how gerontology uses these concepts and incorporates debates, for example around the meaning of life, into its dominant discourses which, as Harry Moody describes above, can ‘impoverish our understanding’ of later life. The study of ageing and the lifecourse is increasingly an interdisciplinary area of study. Consequently students, academics, professionals and policy makers interested in understanding later life need to look at Ageing, Insight and Wisdom: Meaning and Practice across the Lifecourse to challenge the dominant and often negative views of ageing and to open up new ways of thinking about the contribution of later life. The book will be invaluable to all gerontologists, particularly cultural gerontologists, sociologists, philosophers, practitioners and policy makers in the area of ageing and later life. It certainly achieves its aim in opening up the debates surrounding lifecourse meanings and values.

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Ageing, Insight and Wisdom
Meaning and Practice across the Lifecourse
, pp. xii
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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