Positive Aging And Precarity: Theory, Policy, And Social Reality Within A Comparative German Context Hardcover

Irina Catrinel Craciun

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 highlight the widening inequalities, disadvantages and precarity that characterize old age. This book comes to fill a gap in knowledge by offering an alternative view on positive aging, informed by precarity and its impact on projections concerning aging.This book provides health psychologists, gerontologists, sociologists, social workers, health professionals as well as students and aging individuals themselves with better understanding of the meaning of aging in precarious times and builds confidence about aging well despite precarity

9783030142575

English

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

02-Jul-19

194

Dr irina catrinel craciun is associate professor in health psychology at the babes- bolyai university in cluj, romania and has been guest professor of health and gender at the freie universitat berlin. She also works as a health psychology practitioner and is vice-president of the romanian health psychology association. She received her phd in health psychology at the freie universitat berlin (supervised by prof. Dr. Ralf schwarzer) and subsequently held a post-doctoral research grant on resources for positive aging, sponsored by the alexander von humboldt foundation. Several articles resulted from this project and were published in journals such as the gerontologist, journal of aging studies and journal of health psychology and journal of women and aging. Her research interests include a wide range of topics from health behaviour change to health communication and exploring aging, gender and psychosocial health determinants. Her recent studies focus mainly on aging and health perceptions in vulnerable populations such as aging precarious individuals, and the prevention of gender and social inequalities in health