Vol 41, No 2 (2020)

The Ends of Life 

Guest Edited by Iza Kavedžija


 

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Table of Contents

Special Issue Articles

INTRODUCTION. The Ends of Life: Time and Meaning in Later Years
Iza Kavedzija
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1-8
“Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery”: Dying in South African Frail Care
Casey Golomski
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9-23
Family, Time, and Meaning toward the End of Life in Japan
Susan Long
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24-45
Aging Well as Activism: Advancing the Mexican Social Body through Individually Successful Aging
Emily Wentzell
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46-58
An Attitude of Gratitude: Older Japanese in the Hopeful Present
Iza Kavedzija
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59-71
Narrating Future Selves: Perspectives on Ageing from a Scottish Cohort Born in 1936
Jane Elliott, JD Carpentieri
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72-89
AFTERWORD. Situating Time, Futurity, and Aging in the Pandemic
Janelle S. Taylor
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90-92

Articles

Food Roots & Today’s Pantry: The Multiple Meanings of “Thrifty Know-How” among Older African American Women
Katherine Lambert-Pennington, Lyndsey Pender
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93-109

Portfolio

PORTFOLIO: "Ends of Life": An Interview with Sarah Lamb
Iza Kavedzija, Sarah Lamb
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110-125

COVID-19 and Aging Bodies

INTRODUCTION: COVID19 and Aging Bodies – What Do We Mean When We Say That Older Adults Are Most ‘Affected’ by COVID-19?
Christine Verbruggen
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126-131
Aging, Care, and Isolation in the Time of COVID-19.
Lenore Manderson, Susan Levine
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132-140
COVID-19 and the Kin Contract: Navigating the Family and the State During the Pandemic
Cortney Hughes Rinker, M. Aspen Bataille, Loumarie Figueroa Ortiz
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141-146
Of Public Spaces and Later-life Amity in Urban India: Gerontological Musings in Pandemic Times
Tannistha Samanta
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147-154
Weaving Flexible Aging-friendly Communities Across Generations While Living with COVID-19
Nanami Suzuki
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155-166
Risky Business: How Older ‘At Risk’ People in Denmark Evaluated Their Situated Risk During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Amy Clotworthy, Rudi GJ Westendorp
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167-176
On Vulnerability, Resilience, and Age: Older Americans Reflect on the Pandemic
Sarah Lamb
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177-186
“The Body Becomes Closed and Squeezed up in a Narrow Frame”: Loneliness and Fears of Isolation in the Lives of Older People in Rural Areas in Karelia During COVID-19.
Konstantin Galkin
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187-198
"It Spread Like a Wildfire": Analyzing Affect in the Narratives of Nursing Home Staff During a COVID-19 Outbreak.
Andrea Freidus, Dena Shenk
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199-206
Taming and Timing Death During COVID-19: The Ordinary Passing of an Old Man in an Extraordinary Time
Sofie Rosenlund Lau, Nanna Hauge Kristensen, Bjarke Oxlund
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207-220
Recognizing Older Individuals: An Essay on Critical Gerontology, Robin Hood, and the COVID-19 Crisis
Annette Leibing
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221-229
How We Talk About Aging During a Global Pandemic Matters: On Ageist Othering and Aging ‘Others’ Talking Back
Christine Verbruggen, Britteny M. Howell, Kaylee Simmons
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230-245

Commentaries

The Serendipitous Life and Career of Dr. Jay Sokolovsky
Caleb Chrisley, Bobby Timms
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246-249

Announcements

AAGE Obituary for Madelyn (Micki) Iris, PhD
Rebecca Berman, Margaret Perkinson, Robert Schrauf, Ellen Ziegemeier
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250-251

Book Reviews

Book Review: Ending Ageism or How Not to Shoot Old People
Aaron Guest
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252-253
Book Review: Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work
Carlos Chirinos
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254-256
Theater review: The Other
Leslie Carlin
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257-258
Book Review: Negotiating Ageing: Cultural Adaptation to the Prospect of a Long Life
Ashwin Tripathi
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259-261
Book Review: Aging in Everyday Life: Materiality and Embodiments
Theresa Southam
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262-264
Book Review: Crossborder Care: Lessons from Central Europe
Zhe Yan
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265-267
Book review: Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan
Samantha L. Grace
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268-270
Book Review: Designing Cultures of Care
Richard Zimmer
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271-273
Book Review: Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
Britteny M. Howell
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274-276
Book Review: Cross-cultural Perspective on Personhood and the Life Course
Maria G. Cattell
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277-279
Film Review: Manu
Karen Lok Yi Wong
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280-282
Book Review: Queer Aging in North American Fiction
Celeste Pang
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283-285
Book Review: The Cambridge Handbook of Kinship
Irina Kretser
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286-288