Lifelong Learning Patterns of Elderly Women and Meaning of Old Age Learning -Focusing on learning life history-

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-112
Author(s):  
Ji Young Kim
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Learning Patterns

The Relationship between Life Crises and Mental Deterioration in Old Age

1974 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Ellen Amster ◽  
Herbert H. Krauss
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Family Member ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
Recent Experience ◽  
Mental Deterioration ◽  
The Relationship

This study relates mental deterioration in old age to recent life history. A family member or close friend completed the Geriatric Schedule of Recent Experience (GSRE) for each of 25 mentally deteriorated and 25 normal elderly women. The results showed a positive relationship between magnitude and number of life crises and mental deterioration.

Rachmiel Peltz, From immigrant to ethnic culture: American Yiddish in South Philadelphia. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 263. Hb $49.50, pb $18.95.

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-150
Author(s):  
Miriam Isaacs
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Ethnic Culture ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Real Estate Investments

South Philadelphia can be added to the littered landscape of Jewish geography, in which Chelm, Belz, Odessa, Boiberik, and Brownsville are terrain abandoned by Jews. They are romanticized in folk songs, but they make poor real estate investments. Similarly, Yiddish cultural life may be seen as a landscape of outmoded lifeways. The Yiddish language and its dialects have been cast off, but at the same time they remain cherished in memory. Peltz's ethnography explores Yiddish as it survives among what is left of a Yiddish-speaking community in Philadelphia. The story of Yiddish is one of powerlessness; Peltz takes us to the seemingly marginal Jews, the yidelekh – working-class, elderly women and men who are marginalized as a function of their old age, their accents, and their lack of higher education.

‘I Don't Feel Old’: Subjective Ageing and the Search for Meaning in Later Life

1992 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Late Life ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Search For Meaning ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACTA critique of the study of ageing by sociologists and historians is provided in this paper, on the basis of the comparative neglect of life history studies across the whole lifespan. It points to the skewed nature of studies reported in the literature. As a corrective, results from a UK life history based study are presented. It focuses on leisure, grand- parenting and intimate relationships between adults, leading to conclusions about the relationship between class factors in the determination of late life experiences and self perceptions of the meaning of old age.

Thinking about the Production and Consumption of Long-term Care in Britain: Does Gender Still Matter?

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 623-643 ◽  
Author(s):  
CLARE UNGERSON
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Mixed Economy ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Impact

This article suggests that the literature on care, which originally was heavily influenced by a gendered perspective, has now taken on other important variables. However, it is argued that if we look at the particular impact of the marketisation and privatisation of long-term care, we can see that gender is still a useful perspective on the production of care, especially paid care. The reordering of the delivery of domiciliary care within the ‘mixed economy of welfare’ is having important effects on the labour market for care and is likely to lead to further inequalities between women, both now and in old age. The article proceeds to look at the impact of these inequalities on the consumption of care in old age, particularly by elderly women and considers factors that may provide women with the resources to purchase care and/or pay charges for care. The article argues that gender does still matter, but that its impact has to be understood within a context of growing inequalities between women, and an analysis that takes account of wider social and economic relations within kin networks and between generations.

scholarly journals Flexicurity – the German trajectory

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berndt Keller ◽  
Hartmut Seifert
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Working Time ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Institutional Framework ◽  
Central Elements ◽  
Analytical Perspective ◽  
Atypical Employment

The focus of this article is the concept of ‘flexicurity’, flexibility linked to social security. We shall look at the issue in terms of the institutional framework in Germany and as an alternative to pure flexibilisation. The central elements are the four related concepts of (i) transitional labour markets, (ii) collective bargaining and working time policies which safeguard employment, (iii) lifelong learning, and (iv) provision for old age. These can be looked at from an analytical perspective, as well as in terms of the periods of employment and of post-employment. Furthermore, we deal with different forms of atypical employment in terms of the concept of flexicurity developed here.

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