The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing

Johnson, Malcolm L.; Bengtson, Vern L.; Coleman, Peter G.; Kirkwood, Thomas B. L.

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“…In recent years there has been an increased interest in age-related studies across academic fields such as sociology (Gilleard & Higgs, 2014), psychology (Johnson, Bengtson, Coleman & Kirkwood, 2005), demography (McDaniel & Zimmer, 2013), leisure (Toepoel, 2013), cultural studies (Twigg & Martin, 2015) and biology (Kuh, Cooper, Richards, Gale, von Zglinicki & Guralnik, 2012). However, there has been little discussion about a gerontology of the outdoors.…”

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Paradise regained: older adult rock climbers turning space into place in the natural environment

Hickman¹,

Beard²,

Inkster³

2015

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At the time of writing there are over 10 million people aged over 65 living in the UK, and by 2050 the number is predicted to rise to 19 million. This expansion of the ageing population is mirrored worldwide, and over the past ten years has stimulated a growth in age-related studies. However, the idea of a social gerontology of the outdoors is yet to take root. Yet, with the maturing of those born between the years 1946 and 1964, and increased participation in adventurous activities, we suggest that the time is right for scholarship in this specific direction. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to discover how older adult rock climbers perceived their relationship with the natural environment to have changed over the period of their involvement with rock climbing. The investigation used a purposive sample of rock climbers in the north-west of England (n=10) aged between 65 and 74 years (av=69.6) identifying them as ‘young-old’ adults. Oral testimony was collected over two phases, the first with interview-questionnaires, and the second with targeted semi-structured interviews. In order to give a clear voice to participants, manual data handling using was used to establish raw data that were then sorted into themes and verified against internal and external checkers. These were then organized around Peace, Wahl, Mollenkopf and Oswald’s (2014) concept of an ‘environment’ considered within three dimensions: the physical/material, including the natural landscape; the psychological, and the meaning attributed to the place, its evolution across the life course, and how it makes people feel about themselves; and the social/cultural, involving the engagement of people to places, including how the space is used and remembered.

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Paradise regained: older adult rock climbers turning space into place in the natural environment

Hickman¹,

Beard²,

Inkster³

2015

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History of Research into Ageing/Senescence

Grignolio

Franceschi

2012

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

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The fact that people age and die has always stimulated extensive philosophical and medical investigations in all societies. The early theories of ageing that arose in ancient Greece and revived in the Middle Age saw old age as a consequence of the gradual consumption of the innate heat with the inevitable loss of body moisture, according to Hippocrates’ system of four‐humours (fifth century BC). The idea that senescence was itself an illness, the image of the aged body as a lamp in which life‐fuel has run out, the character alterations of elders, the attempt to prolong life through specific diet or by substituting damaged body parts were the main themes around which research into ageing and senescence revolved from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century. The fresh tools provided by evolutionary theory and molecular biology have opened new vistas, sometimes retrieving old conceptions, of the intimate mechanisms underlying the recent prolongation of life expectancy. Key Concepts: Early speculations on ageing were focussed on the bodily humoural imbalance and on the gradual loss of inner heat. Rejuvenating or stopping the ageing process was a major concerns of Medieval and Renaissance medicine. Prolonging human lifespan through specific dietetic regimens was a long running theme in the history of gerontology. Evolutionary approaches and molecular disciplines gave a new impetus to the researches into ageing. No more considered itself a disease, senescence is nowadays sees as a successful form of remodelling and adaptation to a lifelong series stressors. In the past decades, ageing researches have concentrated their efforts in four major directions: cellular theories, immune‐metabolic models, evolutionary explanations and molecular biology‐based approaches.

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Lifecourse and Aging

Hazan

2015

Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

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This essay addresses the need of peoples everywhere to think about the human life span as a series of discretely identifiable stages here characterized and analyzed as a series of fundamental dimensions around which dominant cultural beliefs are commonly organized. They include: Universality versus diversity; determinacy versus indeterminacy; social time versus experienced time; and course versus cycle. Each dimension is described and exemplified, resulting in a framework to guide future studies of aging and the life course.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing

Cited by 82 publications

References 1,697 publications

Paradise regained: older adult rock climbers turning space into place in the natural environment

Paradise regained: older adult rock climbers turning space into place in the natural environment

History of Research into Ageing/Senescence

Lifecourse and Aging

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