Positive Aging and Precarity Theory, Policy, and Social Reality within a Comparative German Context /

• Main Author: Crăciun, Irina Catrinel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: International Perspectives on Aging, 21
• Subjects: Social groups.; Family.; Health psychology.; Aging.; Geriatrics.; Demography.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.; Health Psychology.; Geriatrics/Gerontology.

This book explores positive aging through the lens of precarity, aiming to ground positive aging theories in current social contexts. In recent years, research on aging has been branded by growing disagreements between supporters of the successful aging model and critical gerontologists who highligh...