Through a careful selection of key articles published over the past few decades, this major work addresses how social gerontologists research ageing. Social gerontology draws upon a wide base of disciplines such as sociology, geography, anthropology, psychology and more. The complexity of ageing from a social gerontology perspective demands a broad range of methodological approaches. Thus, the overarching theme of this collection is methodological-exemplifying the different ways of conducting investigations about the most important issues in ageing studies. Under the expert guidance of a team of respected editors, this four-volume set brings together key contributions to the social scientific study of the ageing process and the places, relationships, and institutions that shape that process. Broken down into thematic chapters, it offers works that take on the most significant challenges of research about ageing. Volume 1: Ageing and Places Volume 2: Social Relationships and Ageing Volume 3: Social Institutions, the Life Course, and Ageing Volume 4: Cross-cutting Epistemological Issues
VOLUME ONE: AGEING AND PLACES PART ONE: HOME AND HOUSING The Home Environment of Older People - Robert Rubinstein A Description of the Psychosocial Processes Linking Person to Place Situating 'Home' at the Nexus of the Public and Private Spheres - Anne Martin-Matthews Ageing, Gender and Home Support Work in Canada The Home as a Site for Long-Term Care - Isabel Dyck et al Meanings and Management of Bodies and Spaces Relationships between Housing and Health Aging in Very Old Age - Frank Oswald et al The Outcomes of Re-Housing Older Homeless People - Maureen Crane and Anthony Warnes A Longitudinal Study PART TWO: NEIGHBORHOODS The Surveillance Zone as Meaningful Space for the Aged - Graham Rowles The Contributions of Race, Individual Socioeconomic Status and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Context on the Self-Rated Health Trajectories and Mortality of Older Adults - Li Yao and Stephanie Robert Neighborhood-Level Cohesion and Disorder - Kathleen Cagney et al Measurement and Validation in Two Older Adult Urban Populations The Relationship of Built Environment to Perceived Social Support and Psychological Distress in Hispanic Elders - Scott Brown et al The Role of 'Eyes on the Street' Natural Neighborhood Networks - Paula Gardner Important Social Networks in the Lives of Older Adults Aging in Place PART THREE: COMMUNITIES Becoming 'at Home' in Assisted-Living Residences - Malcolm Cutchin, Steven Owen and Pei-Fen Chang Exploring Place Integration Processes Managing Decline in Assisted Living - Mary Ball et al The Key to Aging in Place A City within a City - Mary Byrnes A 'Snapshot' of Aging in a HUD 202 in Detroit, Michigan These White Walls - Kevin McHugh and Elizabeth Larson-Keagy The Dialectic of Retirement Communities 'This Is Where We Buried Our Sons' - Janet Seeley et al People of Advanced Old Age Coping with the Impact of the AIDS Epidemic in a Resource-Poor Setting in Rural Uganda PART FOUR : MIGRATION Predictors of Non-Local Moves among Older Adults - Charles Longino et al A Prospective Study How Left behind Are Rural Parents of Migrant Children? Evidence from Thailand - John Knodel et al Contribution of Residential Relocation and Lifestyle to the Structure of Health Trajectories - Song-lee Hong and Li-Mei Chen There's No Place Like Home - Joseph Sabia A Hazard Model Analysis of Aging in Place among Older Home Owners in the PSID VOLUME TWO: SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND AGEING PART ONE: FAMILY AND FICTIVE KIN Challenges in Moving from Macro to Micro - Katharina Herlofson and Gunhild Hagestad Population and Family Structures in Ageing Societies Intergenerational Co-Residence and Family Transitions in the United States, 1850-1880 - Steven Ruggles Beyond the Nuclear Family - Vern Bengston The Increasing Importance of Multigenerational Bonds Grandparent-Grandchild Ties - Candace Kemp Reflections on Continuity and Change across Three Generations Perspectives on Extended Family and Fictive Kin in the Later Years - Katherine Allen, Rosemary Bleiszner and Karen Roberto Strategies and Meanings of Kin Re-Interpretation PART TWO: FRIENDSHIP Gender and Friendship Norms among Older Adults - Diane Felmlee and Anna Muraco Friendships among People with Dementia in Long-Term Care - Kate de Medeiros et al PART THREE: CARE AND CAREGIVING RELATIONSHIPS Family Responsibility and Caregiving in the Qualitative Analysis of the Alzheimer's Disease Experience - Jaber Gubrium The Health Implications of Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren in China - Feinian Chen and Guangya Liu Does Providing Tangible Support to Children Enhance Life Satisfaction of Older Chinese Women? The Role of Perceived Filial Piety of Children - Man Guo and Iris Chi Emotional Health of Black and White Dementia Caregivers - Ishan Williams A Contextual Examination Growing Old in the Era of a High Prevalence of HIV/AIDS - Chantal Munthree and Pranitha Maharaj The Impact of AIDS on the Older Men and Women in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa A Framework for Categorizing Social Interactions Related to End-of-Life Care in Nursing Homes - Mercedes Berg-Klug PART FOUR: SOCIAL ROLES, NETWORKS AND RESOURCES The Social Structuring of Mental Health over the Adult Life Course - Philippa Clarke et al Advancing Theory in the Sociology of Aging Profiles of Social Relations among Older Adults - Katherine Fiori, Toni Antonucci and Hiroko Akiyama A Cross-Cultural Approach Gender, Marital Status and Ageing - Sara Arber Linking Material, Health and Social Resources Financial Strain, Negative Social Interaction and Self-Related Health - Neal Krause, Jason Newsom and Karen Rook Evidence from Two United States Nationwide Longitudinal Surveys PART FIVE: SOCIAL CONTACT AND ENGAGEMENT Age Trends in Daily Social Contact Patterns - Benjamin Cornwell Age and Loneliness in 25 European Nations - Keming Yang and Christina Victor Civic Engagement among Older Chinese Internet Users - Bo Xie Writing about Age, Birthdays and the Passage of Time - Bill Bytheway VOLUME THREE: SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS, THE LIFE COURSE AND AGEING PART ONE: THE STATE AND SOCIAL POLICY The Devolution of Risk and the Changing Life Course in the United States - Angela O'Rand State Care Provision, Societal Opinion and Children's Care of Older Parents in 11 European Countries - Klaus Haberkern and Marc Szydlik Inter-Generational Transfers of Time and Money in European Families - Marco Albertini, Martin Kohli and Claudia Vogel Common Patterns - Different Regimes? Political Mediation and the Impact of the Pension Movement on U.S. Old-Age Policy - Edwin Amenta, Neal Caren and Sheera Joy Olasky PART TWO: WORK AND THE LIFE COURSE Reasoning with Case Studies - Victor Marshall Issues of an Aging Workforce Generational Affinities and Discourses of Difference - Julie Ann McMullin, Tammy Duerden Comeau and Emily Jovic A Case Study of Highly Skilled Information Technology Workers Labour Market Transitions and the Erosion of the Fordist Lifecycle - Jill Quadagno, Melissa Hardy and Lawrence Hazelrigg Discarding Older Workers in the Automobile Manufacturing and Banking Industries in the United States Age Discrimination, Social Closure and Employment - Vincent Rosigno et al Changing Employment Patterns of Women in Germany - Julia Simonson, Laura Romeu Gordo and Nadiya Titova How Do Baby Boomers Differ from Other Cohorts? A Comparison Using Sequence Analysis PART THREE: RETIREMENT, INCOME AND INEQUALITY Incorporating Diversity - Toni Calasanti Meaning, Levels of Research and Implications for Theory Leisure Activities and Retirement - Simone Scherger, James Nazroo and Paul Higgs Do Structures of Inequality Change in Old Age? Shifts in Public-Private Provision of Retirement Income - Brian Gran A Four-Country Comparison Retirement and Wealth Relationships - Gabriela Topa et al Meta-Analysis and SEM PART FOUR: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTIONS Inspection Visits in Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly - Cristina Flores, Alan Bostrom and Robert Newcomer The Effects of a Policy Change in California The 'Regulated Death' - Katherine Froggatt A Documentary Analysis of the Regulation and Inspection of Dying and Death in English Care Homes for Older People Substitution between Formal and Informal Care - Linda Pickard A 'Natural Experiment' in Social Policy in Britain between 1985 and 2000 Reconceptualizing the Relationship between 'Public' and 'Private' Elder Care - Catherine Ward-Griffin and Victor Marshall Medicaid Cost-Savings of Home and Community-Based Service Programs for Older Persons in Florida - Adam Shapiro, Chung-Ping Loh and Glenn Mitchell II PART FIVE: OTHER SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS Aging Contested - John Vincent Anti-Ageing Science and the Cultural Construction of Old Age Association of Religious Participation with Mortality among Chinese Old Adults - Yi Zeng, Danan Gu and Linda George VOLUME FOUR: CROSS-CUTTING EPOSITEMOLOGICAL ISSUES PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL BASES OF INQUIRY Comparative Ageing Research - Clemens Tesch-Roemer and Hans-Joachim von Kondratowitz A Flourishing Field in Need of Theoretical Cultivation Stress and the Life Course - Leonard Pearlin and Marilyn McKean Skaff A Paradigmatic Alliance Aging and Cumulative Inequality - Kenneth Ferraro and Tetyana Shippee How Does Inequality Get under the Skin? Identifying Connections between the Subjective Experience of Health and Quality of Life in Old Age - Maria-Eugenia et al Place in Occupational Science - Graham Rowles A Life-Course Perspective on the Role of Environmental Context in the Quest for Meaning Life Stories to Understand Diversity - Janet Giele Variations by Class, Race and Gender PART TWO: DESIGN AND MEASUREMENT Generating Large-Scale Longitudinal Data Resources for Aging Research - John Gallacher and Scott Hofer Instrument Development, Study Design Implementation and Survey Conduct for the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project - Stephen Smith et al Who Participates? Accounting for Longitudinal Retention in the MIDUS National Study of Health and Well-Being - Barry Radler and Carol Ryff Later-Life Mental Health in Europe - George Ploubidis and Emily Grundy A Country-Level Comparison Conceptualization and Measurement of Quality of Life in Dementia - Meryl Brod et al The Dementia Quality of Life Instrument (DQoL) How Valid Are the Responses to Nursing Home Survey Questions? Some Issues and Concerns - Denise Tyler et al PART THREE: CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH Cross-Cultural Gerontology Research Methods - Iris Chi Challenges and Solutions Advancing the Science of Recruitment and Retention of Ethnically Diverse Populations - Anna Napoles and Letha Chadiha The Development of Culturally Sensitive Measures for Research on Ageing - Berit Ingersoll-Dayton PART FOUR: PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH AND ETHICS Culture Change in Long-Term Care - Robin Shura, Rebecca Siders and Dale Dannefer Participatory Action Research and the Role of the Resident Lessons from a Community-Based Participatory Research Project - Martha Doyle and Virpi Timonen Older People's and Researchers' Reflections Interviews on End-of-Life Care with Older People - Sabine Pleschberger et al Reflections on Six European Studies Understanding Aging and Disability Perspectives on Home Care - Phillip Clark Uncovering Facts and Values in Public-Policy Narratives and Discourse
