Personal Growth, Creativity and Transcendence in Old Age. A Psychological Analysis

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction: Perspectives on Cultural Aging at a Glance 1
4. Ethics and Ageing
5. Personal Growth, Creativity and Transcendence in Old Age. A Psychological Analysis 21
6. Historical Considerations on the Ethics of Aging: Examples from the Sixteenth Century 39
7. Electronic Health and Ambient Assisted Living: On the Technisation of Ageing and Responsibility 49
8. Towards a New Theory of Ageism
9. Not Your Grandmother’s Ageism: Ageism Across the Life Course 65
10. Confronting Loss when ‘Life Changes in the Instant’: Ageism and Successful Aging in the ‘Case’ of Joan Didion 81
11. The Arts and Old Age
12. Exploring Old Age Through the Theatre: Three British Senior Theatre Companies 99
13. A Spinster with a Twist: The Amateur Sleuth and Perspectives on Ageing and Gender in the Sunday Philosophy Club Series 113
14. ± 100: Old Age and New Photography 129
15. Performing Age(ing): A Lecture Performance 149
16. Opera for Every Age – Opera for People with Dementia 163
17. About the Authors 167
18. Index 171