1 Aging and Disability

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 3
5. Conceptualizing the Nexus
6. Aging and Disability 21
7. Spectres of Unproductive Life 35
8. Cripping Care Advice 51
9. Dancing In and Out of Control 65
10. Politics of Care
11. Aging, Disability, and Long-Term-Care Policy 83
12. Directly Funded Home Care for Older Adults 97
13. Age, Disability, and Encounters with Care 114
14. Power, Agency, Aging, and Cognitive Impairment 130
15. Regulation of “Care” in Long-Term-Care Homes in Ontario 145
16. Timescapes and Landscapes
17. Aging with and into Disability 163
18. From Boomer to Zoomer 180
19. Deconstructing Dependency and Development in Global Dementia Policy 200
20. Aging and Disability in the Time of AIDS 218
21. Disability, Age, the British Countryside, and Social Exclusion 235
22. Speaking from the Nexus
23. Thinking into Aging–Disability Nexuses 251
24. Contributors 268
25. Index 275