International Journal of Ageing and Later Life (IJAL), Volume 7, No 2 2012

Special Issue on Aging, narrative and performance

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.1272

Published: 2013-03-21

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Editorial

Acknowledgements

Lars Andersson

7-8

Guest Editorial

Aging, narrative, and performance: essays from the humanities

Aagje Swinnen, Cynthia Port

9-15

Articles in a Special Issue

A public secret: assisted living, caregivers, globalization

Kathleen Woodward

17-51

Reimagining care: images of aging and creativity in House Calls and Year at Sherbrooke

Sally Chivers

53-71

An insider’s view of Alzheimer: cinematic portrayals of the struggle for personhood

Amir Cohen-Shalev, Esther-Lee Marcus

73-96

No Country for Old Men: a search for masculinity in later life

Benjamin Saxton, Thomas R. Cole

97-116

“The play’s the thing”: theatre as a scholarly meeting ground in age studies

Valerie Barnes Lipscomb

117-141

Critical turns of aging, narrative and time

Jan Baars

143-165

Book reviews

J. Gordon Harris (2008). Biblical Perspectives on Ageing: God and the Elderly (second edition). New York: Harworth Press, 199 pp. ISBN 978 0 78903 538 7 (hardbound),

Simon Biggs

I-VI

Christine Ceci, Kristín Björnsdóttír & Mary Ellen Purkis (eds.) (2011). Perspectives on Care at Home for Older People. New York: Routledge, 194 pp. ISBN 978 0 415 89590 3 (hardback)

Marvin Formosa

VII-X

Bennett, A. & Hodkinson, P. (eds.) (2012). Ageing and Youth Cultures. Music, Style and Identity. London & New York: Berg, 208 pp. ISBN 978 1 84788 835 8 (paperback)

Yves Laberge

XI-XIV