Ageing, Insight and Wisdom

"This book focuses on older people as makers of meaning and insight, highlighting the evolving values, priorities and ways of communicating that make later life fascinating. It explores what creating 'meaning' in later life really implies, for older people themselves, for how to conceptualise older people and for relationships between generations. The book offers a language for discussing major types of lifecourse meaning, not least those concerning ethical and temporal aspects of the ways older people form part of social and symbolic landscapes, and the types of wisdom they can offer"--

Year

2015

Language

English

Publisher

Policy Press

Editions

6

Pages

224

ISBN

9781847425935

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