7. Aspiring to Activity: Universities of the Third Age, Gardening, and Other Forms of Living in Postsocialist Poland

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction: Successful Aging as a Twenty-first- Century Obsession 1
6. PART I. Gender, Sexuality, and the Allure of Anti-Aging
7. 1. Successful Aging, Ageism, and the Maintenance of Age and Gender Relations 27
8. 2. Opting In or Opting Out? North American Women Share Strategies for Aging Successfully with (and without) Cosmetic Intervention 41
9. 3. Aging Out: Ageism, Heterosexism, and Racism among Aging African American Lesbians and Gay Men 55
10. 4. Erectile Dysfunction as Successful Aging in Mexico 68
11. PART II. Ideals of Independence, Interdependence, and Intimate Sociality in Later Life
12. 5. Beyond Independence: Older Chicagoans Living Valued Lives 85
13. 6. Growing Old with God: An Alternative Vision of Successful Aging among Catholic Nuns 98
14. 7. Aspiring to Activity: Universities of the Third Age, Gardening, and Other Forms of Living in Postsocialist Poland 112
15. 8. Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot? Friendship in the Face of Dementia 126
16. PART III. National Policies and Everyday Practices: Individual and Collective Projects of Aging Well
17. 9. Getting Old and Keeping Going: The Motivation Technologies of Active Aging in Denmark 141
18. 10. Foolish Vitality: Humor, Risk, and Success in Japan 154
19. 11. Nurturing Life in Contemporary Beijing 168
20. 12. Depreciating Age, Disintegrating Ties: On Being Old in a Century of Declining Elderhood in Kenya 185
21. PART IV. Medicine, Morality, and Self: Lessons from Life’s Ends
22. 13. Successful Selves? Heroic Tales of Alzheimer’s Disease and Personhood in Brazil 203
23. 14. Comfortable Aging: Lessons for Living from Eighty-five and Beyond 218
24. 15. Ageless Aging or Meaningful Decline? Aspirations of Aging and Dying in the United States and India 230
25. Epilogue: Successful Aging and Desired Interdependence 243
26. Notes on Contributors 249
27. Index 253