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Aging --- Older men. --- Older women in literature. --- Older women. --- Social aspects.

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"This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Graz and the Department of Health, Care, and Science of the Office of the Regional Government of Styria, Austria. Bringing together insights from masculinity studies and age studies, this volume focuses on the gendered and relational perspectives in cultural representations of Alzheimer's disease. Combining a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the authors analyse the interrelations between masculinities and representations of dementia from a wide range of cultural contexts to explore it as an intensely gendered and cultural disease. They examine memoir, film, poetry and prose fiction, and look at work from a wide range of authors, including Anne Carson, Jonathan Franzen and Philip Roth, to provide new insights into established narratives of dementia and explore the complex ways that the disease resists representation and narration and questions traditional views of selfhood and human development."--

Alzheimer's disease. --- Aging. --- Masculinity. --- Dementia --- Diseases in literature. --- Old age in literature. --- Mental illness in literature. --- Patients.

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Across more than 30 chapters spanning migration, queerness, and climate change, this handbook captures how the interdisciplinary and intersectional endeavor of Age(ing) studies has shaped contemporary literary and film studies. In the early 21st century, the literary study of age and ageing in its cultural context has 'come of age': it has come to supplement and challenge a public discourse on ageing seen mainly as a political and demographic 'problem' in many countries of the world. Following a tripartite structure, it looks first at literary and film genres and how they have been shaped by knowledge about age and ageing, incorporating both narrative genres as well as poetry, drama and imagery. The second section includes chapters on key themes and concepts in Age(ing) Studies with examples from film and literature. The third section brings together case studies focussing on individual artists, national traditions and global ageing. Containing original contributions by pioneers in the field as well as new scholars from across the globe, it brings together current scholarship on ageing in literary and film studies, and offers new directions and perspectives.

Aging in literature. --- Aging in motion pictures. --- Films, cinema --- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers --- Psychology of ageing

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Stigmatisierung und Diskriminierung sind schon immer Bestandteil von Medizin und Psychotherapie. Florian Steger führt in die Thematik ein und fokussiert auf Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie. Einen Schwerpunkt bilden sexualwissenschaftliche Fragestellungen (Homosexualität, Transsexualität). Darüber hinaus werden die kulturellen Dimensionen in unterschiedlichen medialen Repräsentationen (Literatur und Film) aufgezeigt.

Homosexualité --- Responsabilité civile --- Psychothérapie --- Psychothérapie. --- Homosexualité. --- Responsabilité civile. --- Homosexualité. --- Responsabilité civile. --- Psychothérapie.

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Current demographic developments and change due to long life expectancies, low birth rates, changing family structures, and economic and political crises causing migration and flight are having a significant impact on intergenerational relationships, the social welfare system, the job market and what elderly people (can) expect from their retirement and environment. The socio-political relevance of the categories of 'age' and 'ageing' have been increasing and gaining much attention within different scholarly fields. However, none of the efforts to identify age-related diseases or the processes of ageing in order to develop suitable strategies for prevention and therapy have had any effect on the fact that attitudes against the elderly are based on patterns that are determined by parameters that or not biological or sociological: age(ing) is also a cultural fact. This book reveals the importance of cultural factors in order to build a framework for analyzing and understanding cultural constructions of ageing, bringing together scholarly discourses from the arts and humanities as well as social, medical and psychological fields of study. The contributions pave the way for new strategies of caring for elderly people.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. --- Cultural gerontolgy. --- ageing. --- arts. --- dementia.