New Challenges to Ageing in the Rural North A Critical Interdisciplinary Perspective /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Naskali, Päivi (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Harbison, Joan R. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Begum, Shahnaj (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: International Perspectives on Aging, 22
• Subjects: Aging.

This book provides an underexplored view of ageing, one that conceives older people as valuable resources in their communities, as active citizens with both voice, and an agency that includes the capacity for resistance. It acknowledges that becoming old with dignity means also paying attention to c...