Vol. 41 No. 2 (2020)

The Ends of Life

Guest Edited by Iza Kavedžija (University of Cambridge)

Cover Painting by Lou Bettina Klein, in conversation with ethnographic work by Annelieke Driessen

Cover Design by Katie Rodriguez (George Mason University)

Published: 2020-12-14

Full Issue

Special Issue Articles

INTRODUCTION. The Ends of Life: Time and Meaning in Later Years

Iza Kavedzija

1-8
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“Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery”: Dying in South African Frail Care

Casey Golomski

9-23
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Family, Time, and Meaning toward the End of Life in Japan

Susan Long

24-45
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Aging Well as Activism: Advancing the Mexican Social Body through Individually Successful Aging

Emily Wentzell

46-58
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An Attitude of Gratitude: Older Japanese in the Hopeful Present

Iza Kavedzija

59-71
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Narrating Future Selves: Perspectives on Ageing from a Scottish Cohort Born in 1936

Jane Elliott, JD Carpentieri

72-89
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AFTERWORD. Situating Time, Futurity, and Aging in the Pandemic

Janelle S. Taylor

90-92
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Articles

Food Roots & Today’s Pantry: The Multiple Meanings of “Thrifty Know-How” among Older African American Women

Katherine Lambert-Pennington, Lyndsey Pender

93-109
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Portfolio

PORTFOLIO: "Ends of Life": An Interview with Sarah Lamb

Iza Kavedzija, Sarah Lamb

110-125
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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

126-131
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Aging, Care, and Isolation in the Time of COVID-19.

Lenore Manderson, Susan Levine

132-140
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COVID-19 and the Kin Contract: Navigating the Family and the State During the Pandemic

Cortney Hughes Rinker, M. Aspen Bataille, Loumarie Figueroa Ortiz

141-146
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Of Public Spaces and Later-life Amity in Urban India: Gerontological Musings in Pandemic Times

Tannistha Samanta

147-154
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Weaving Flexible Aging-friendly Communities Across Generations While Living with COVID-19

Nanami Suzuki

155-166
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Risky Business: How Older ‘At Risk’ People in Denmark Evaluated Their Situated Risk During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Amy Clotworthy, Rudi GJ Westendorp

167-176
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On Vulnerability, Resilience, and Age: Older Americans Reflect on the Pandemic

Sarah Lamb

177-186
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“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

187-198
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"It Spread Like a Wildfire": Analyzing Affect in the Narratives of Nursing Home Staff During a COVID-19 Outbreak.

Andrea Freidus, Dena Shenk

199-206
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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

207-220
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Recognizing Older Individuals: An Essay on Critical Gerontology, Robin Hood, and the COVID-19 Crisis

Annette Leibing

221-229
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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

230-245
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Commentaries

The Serendipitous Life and Career of Dr. Jay Sokolovsky

Caleb Chrisley, Bobby Timms

246-249
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AAGE Obituary for Madelyn (Micki) Iris, PhD

Rebecca Berman, Margaret Perkinson, Robert Schrauf, Ellen Ziegemeier

250-251
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Book and Multimodal Reviews

Book Review: Ending Ageism or How Not to Shoot Old People

Aaron Guest

252-253
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Book Review: Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work

Carlos Chirinos

254-256
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Theater review: The Other

Leslie Carlin

257-258
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Book Review: Negotiating Ageing: Cultural Adaptation to the Prospect of a Long Life

Ashwin Tripathi

259-261
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Book Review: Aging in Everyday Life: Materiality and Embodiments

Theresa Southam

262-264
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Book Review: Crossborder Care: Lessons from Central Europe

Zhe Yan

265-267
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Book review: Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan

Samantha L. Grace

268-270
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Book Review: Designing Cultures of Care

Richard Zimmer

271-273
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Book Review: Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life

Britteny M. Howell

274-276
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Book Review: Cross-cultural Perspective on Personhood and the Life Course

Maria G. Cattell

277-279
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Film Review: Manu

Karen Lok Yi Wong

280-282
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Book Review: Queer Aging in North American Fiction

Celeste Pang

283-285
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Book Review: The Cambridge Handbook of Kinship

Irina Kretser

286-288
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