Chris Gilleard: 3 books

Book cover of Old Age in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Old Age in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Ageing under the Union

by Chris Gilleard
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017

Using a combination of statistical analysis of census material and social history, this book describes the ageing of Ireland’s population from the start of the Union up to the introduction of the old age pension in 1908.  It examines the changing demography of the country following the Famine and...
Book cover of Cultures of Ageing

Cultures of Ageing

Self, Citizen and the Body

by Chris Gilleard, Paul Higgs
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014

For undergraduate courses in sociology and psychology which examine ageing adulthood. This book focuses on the dramatic changes to the nature of post-retirement life experienced by people at the end of the twentieth century. It examines age and ageing in terms of the key preoccupations of contemporary...
Book cover of Personhood, identity and care in advanced old age
by Higgs, Paul, Gilleard
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016

How do we sustain agency and identity amidst the frailty of advanced old age? What role does care play in this process? Pushing forward new sociological theory, this book explores the theoretical and practical issues raised by age and infirmity. It begins with a theoretical examination of the fourth...
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