International Journal of Ageing and Later Life (IJAL), Volume 7, No 1 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.1271

Published: 2012-06-26

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Articles

Rhetoric and reality of daily life in English care homes: the role of organised activities

Ingrid Eyers, Sara Arber, Rebekah Luff, Emma Young, Theresa Ellmers

53-78

The fight-to-die: older people and death activism

Naomi Richards

7-32

“Otherwise it would be nothing but cruises”: exploring the subjective benefits of working beyond 65

Frances Reynolds, Alexandra Farrow, Alison Blank

79-106

’He wasn’t in that chair’: what loneliness means to widowed older people

Kate Mary Bennet, Christina Victor

33-52

Book reviews

Dirk Hofäcker (2010). Older Workers in a Globalizing World. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 336 pp. ISBN 978 1 84844 817 9 (hardback)

Jill Manthorpe

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Aagje Swinnen and John A. Stotesbury (eds.) (2012). Aging, Performance and Stardom: Doing Age on the Stage of Consumerist Culture. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 208 pp. ISBN 978 3 6439 0176 7 (paperback)

Karin Lövgren

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Jordan I. Kosberg (ed.) (2007). Abuse of Older Men. New York: Haworth Press, 202 pp. ISBN 978 0 7890 3541 7 (paperback)

M. Gabriella Melchiorre

IX-XII

Dale Dannefer & Chris Phillipson (eds.) (2010). The SAGE Handbook of Social Gerontology. Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC: SAGE Publications, 712 pp. ISBN 978 1 4129 3464 0 (hardcover)

Peter Öberg

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