scholarly journals Safe passage of goods and self during residential relocation in later life

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 833-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID J. EKERDT ◽  
MARK LUBORSKY ◽  
CATHERINE LYSACK
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Older People ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Later Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Life World ◽  
Residential Relocation ◽  
Midwestern United States ◽  
Positive Adaptation ◽  
Household Relocation

ABSTRACTTechniques of possession research among older people tend to accentuate their prizing of things and their use of special dispositions to achieve the protection or ‘safe passage’ of things as they transfer to a new owner. Such efforts on behalf of possessions may also be undertaken to perpetuate the self. To study the care of things and self in a wider context, we examined older people's repertoire of disposition strategies during episodes of household relocation and downsizing. We analysed the narratives of persons in 75 households in the Midwestern United States of America. People indeed told stories about the safe passage of cherished possessions – their initiative to place things, appreciation by new owners, and attempts to project the values or memory of the giver. Such accounts of special placements, however, dotted rather than dominated recollections of the move. More commonly, large quantities of items were passed via non-specific offers of possessions to others who may volunteer to take them. This allowed people to nonetheless express satisfaction that their possessions had found appreciative owners. Even though our interviews did not disclose extensive attempts at self-transmission, whole-house downsizing may affirm the self in another way: as conscientious about the care of things. Such affirmation of the present self as accomplished and responsible can be seen as a positive adaptation to the narrowing life world.

What is “the Middle East”? American think tank experts on construction of the region

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-106
Author(s):  
Danguole Bardauskaite
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Middle East ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
The United States ◽  
Us Foreign Policy ◽  
The Self ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Think Tank

Abstract The aim of this research is to answer the question how the American think tank experts on the Middle East and US foreign policy towards the Middle East perceive the region and its construction, with a particular focus on the process of Othering. In order to achieve this aim, the article presents the theoretical explanations of the Othering. In the empirical part, the results of semi-structured interviews with the experts are analyzed and presented. The interviews revealed three angles of how the Middle East is perceived. These angles are the geographical location of the Middle East, the securitization of the Middle East and the universal superiority of the United States. The main finding of the research is that the perception of the Middle East is connected with the self perception or the question of “What is the United States of America?”

scholarly journals ‘I like to go out to be energised by different people’: an exploratory analysis of mobility and wellbeing in later life

2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 758-781 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRIEDERIKE ZIEGLER ◽  
TIM SCHWANEN
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Older People ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Later Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

ABSTRACTThis paper adds to the growing number of studies about mobility and wellbeing in later life. It proposes a broader understanding of mobility than movement through physical space. Drawing on the ‘mobility turn’ in the social sciences, we conceptualise mobility as the overcoming of any type of distance between a here and a there, which can be situated in physical, electronic, social, psychological or other kinds of space. Using qualitative data from 128 older people in County Durham, England, we suggest that mobility and wellbeing influence each other in many different ways. Our analysis extends previous research in various ways. First, it shows that mobility of the self – a mental disposition of openness and willingness to connect with the world – is a crucial driver of the relation between mobility and wellbeing. Second, while loss of mobility as physical movement can and often does affect older people's sense of wellbeing adversely, this is not necessarily so; other mobilities can at least to some extent compensate for the loss of mobility in physical space. Finally, wellbeing is also enhanced through mobility as movement in physical space because the latter enables independence or subjectively experienced autonomy, as well as inter-dependence in the sense of relatively equal and reciprocal social relations with other people.

scholarly journals Lived experiences of ageing and later life in older people with intellectual disabilities

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 602-628 ◽  
Author(s):  
IDA KÅHLIN ◽  
ANETTE KJELLBERG ◽  
CATHARINA NORD ◽  
JAN-ERIK HAGBERG
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
The Body ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Life World ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities

ABSTRACTThe aim of this article is to explore how older people with intellectual disability (ID), who live in group accommodation, describe their lived experience in relation to ageing and later life. The article is based on a study with a phenomenological approach, grounded on the concept of life-world. Individual, qualitative interviews were conducted with 12 people with ID (five men, seven women), between the ages of 48 and 71 (mean=64), who lived in four different group accommodation units in southern Sweden. A descriptive phenomenological analysis method was used, which disclosed a structure consisting of themes and sub-themes. The findings of the study reveal the informants' lived experience of ageing and later life as a multifaceted phenomenon, expressed through the two themes, ‘age as a process of change’ and ‘existential aspects of ageing’, each with three sub-themes. The body is an essential element in their experience of ageing and growing old, and in how this experience is expressed. The study also found social, cultural and historical dimensions of the life-world to be important in the informants' experience of ageing and later life. This supports understanding of the existence of a collective life-world for older people with ID, the unique experiences the informants share because of their disability and its consequences for their lifecourse.

Shaping the active, autonomous and responsible modern retiree: an analysis of discursive technologies and their links with neo-liberal political rationality

2006 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
DEBBIE LALIBERTE RUDMAN
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Older People ◽  
Later Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Political Rationality ◽  
Marketing Risk ◽  
Practices Of The Self ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Discursive Constructions

Retirement is undergoing structural and discursive transformations that have implications for the individual and social experience and management of later life. Although discourses about retirement do not determine how individuals will prepare for and act as ‘retirees’, they provide morally-laden messages that shape people's possibilities for being and acting. Using Canadian newspaper articles published in 1999 and 2000, and drawing upon the governmentality perspective, this study explores the interconnections between neo-liberal political rationality and discursive constructions of ‘retiree’ subjectivities. The analysis demonstrates the ways in which certain subjectivities, and their associated technologies and practices of the self that are consistent with neo-liberal political rationality, are being shaped as ideal for ‘retirees’. The paper critically examines this process and its implications, and argues that the personal ‘freedom’ promised with the idealised life practices is ultimately illusory, because they oblige older people to resist or defy ageing through relentless projects of self-reflection and improvement, self-marketing, risk management, lifestyle maximisation and body optimisation. The implications of the neo-liberal discourse about old age and ‘retirees’ for future social policies and older people's services are critically examined.

scholarly journals Oral Health, Disability and Physical Function: Results From Studies of Older People in the United Kingdom and United States of America

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 1654.e1-1654.e9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eftychia Kotronia ◽  
S. Goya Wannamethee ◽  
A. Olia Papacosta ◽  
Peter H. Whincup ◽  
Lucy T. Lennon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Oral Health ◽  
Older People ◽  
Physical Function ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United Kingdom

Dairy sector compettiveness indicators in Mexico, after NAFTA

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
María Eugenia Estrada-Chavira ◽  
Maribel Rocío Hernández-Velázquez ◽  
Sylja Viridiana Guerrero-García
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Milk Production ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The Self ◽  
New Markets ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Whole Milk ◽  
The World ◽  
Balassa Index

The main objective in this research was to calculate the competitiveness indices to the dairy sector in Mexico after NAFTA: commercial opening index, food selfsufficiency, Balassa Index, Vollrath Index, additive revealed competitive advantage index, and export-import index in a period from 1994 to 2017. The results show that the commercial opening for the whole milk is only 30 %. The self sufficiency of México in whole milk is less than 1%. The Balassa index shows that only 0.08 % of the whole milk exports in the world come from México. The Vollrath index shows that Mexico does not have commercial competitiveness in whole milk. Mexico´s index of revealed additive competitiveness is of 21%. Last, the imports and exports index is less than 0.5%. Mexico´s growing of milk production is not enough to satisfy the industry in the country and to reinforce has to import. Concluding that, after Nafta during more than twenty years Mexico is still whole milk import dependent from United States of America. It is recommended to make associations of dairy productive chains in the country and to explore new markets not only USA.

Combating loneliness: a friendship enrichment programme for older women

2001 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
NAN STEVENS
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Older People ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Educational Programme ◽  
The Self ◽  
Single Type ◽  
Important Goal

Research indicates that friendship contributes to wellbeing in later life in various ways: through the provision of companionship in daily life, support during stressful transitions, sustainment of identity under changing circumstances and adaptation to old age. However not all older people have friends available who fulfil these different functions. In order to promote wellbeing and reduce loneliness, an educational programme on friendship enrichment for older women has been developed and implemented in the Netherlands. The friendship programme's main goal is empowerment; it helps women clarify their needs in friendship, analyse their current social network, set goals in friendship and develop strategies to achieve goals. Reduction of loneliness, when present, is also an important goal of the programme. A study that followed 40 participants during the year after the programme demonstrates that a majority succeeded in developing new, or improving existing, friendships and in significantly reducing their loneliness. They also reported changes related to the self and social behaviour. Limitations of the research design, reflection on the feasibility of reducing loneliness through a single type of intervention, and possible applications of the programme's design to other areas, are presented in the discussion.

Moral Flourishing in Later Life Through Purpose Beyond the Self

2020 ◽  
pp. 439-458
Author(s):  
Anne Colby ◽  
Matthew Bundick ◽  
Kathleen Remington ◽  
Emily Morton
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Successful Aging ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Good Health ◽  
National Sample ◽  
The Self ◽  
Missed Opportunities ◽  
Deep Well

This chapter considers several conceptions of successful aging, analyzing the morally relevant aspects of these models and their missed opportunities to illuminate moral flourishing in older adults. The authors review evidence that engagement with self-transcendent goals and contributions enhances deep well-being for older people, as well as contributing to the well-being of others and the common good. They briefly report their own research on purpose beyond the self, which indicates that almost one-third of a US national sample of older people is purposeful and that purpose in later life doesn’t require economic or educational privilege or even good health. The authors suggest that the moral development field should explore ways to expand conceptions of positive aging to take account of moral dimensions of flourishing and extend insights about moral maturity into the later stages of life.

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