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Positive Aging and Precarity

Part of the International Perspectives on Aging Book Series (volume 21)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-14255-1

ISBN: 978-3-030-14254-4

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

May 11, 2019

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction: Issues of Aging and Precarity

Crăciun, Irina Catrinel

Pages: 1 –13

[The introduction sets out to describe the issue of agingAging being perceived either as a challenge or problem for contemporary society. The links between positiveAging theoriesaging theoryPositive aging theory, active aging policyActive aging policy and views on agingViews on aging are...
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Positive Aging Theories and Views on Aging

Crăciun, Irina Catrinel

Pages: 17 –34

[This chapter explores how positive agingPositive aging theories shape views on aging. The chapter starts off with defining positive agingPositive aging and goes on to provide an overview of the successful agingSuccessful aging theory and its main critiques. The key critical points are organized...
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The Politics of Positive Aging

Crăciun, Irina Catrinel

Pages: 35 –52

[This chapter examines the politics of positive aging. It starts off by defining active agingActive aging and exploring how positive agingPositive aging theories contributed to shaping agingAgingpolicyPolicy. The chapter continues with an analysis of how active aging policyActive aging policy and...
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The Social Reality of Aging

Crăciun, Irina Catrinel

Pages: 53 –64

[This chapter discusses the social reality of aging, emphasizing the discrepancy between positive agingPositive aging discourse and the social reality of agingAging in precarious times. The chapter starts out by describing what it means to be living in precarious times, referring to Baumann’s...
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Perceptions of the Precarious Life: The Middle-Aged Precariat in Germany

Crăciun, Irina Catrinel

Pages: 67 –88

[This chapter explores how precarious middle-aged workers perceive the reality of precarityPrecarity and their own agingAging. The chapter starts off with the definition of the precariat provided by Standing (2011) and goes on to analyze the characteristics and importance of the rising aging...
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Views on Aging in Precarious and Financially Secure Individuals

Crăciun, Irina Catrinel

Pages: 89 –105

[This chapter explores views on agingViews on aging that emerge within a precarious social reality. Since the social reality is shared by individuals with precarious jobs and those who still enjoy financial security, the views on agingViews on aging of the two groups are contrasted and compared....
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Preparing for Old Age

Crăciun, Irina Catrinel

Pages: 107 –125

[This chapter focuses on the decisions and actions that precarious and financially secure middle-aged Germans take in preparation for old age. The first part of the chapter discusses the dilemma of preparing for old age in precarious times. Next, the chapter examines the strategies applied by...
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Precarity and Views on Aging

Crăciun, Irina Catrinel

Pages: 129 –147

[This chapter argues that precarityPrecarity shapes views on agingViews on aging by generating and encouraging specific negative images concerning old age, by stimulating the reinvention of positive agingPositive aging images and by increasing the discrepancy between positive agingPositive aging...
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Precarity and Preparing for Old Age

Crăciun, Irina Catrinel

Pages: 149 –165

[This chapter considers the issue of preparation for old age in precarious times. It is argued that precarityPrecarity shapes old age preparations by constructing the agingAging context, by affecting mental preparations and by creating distinctive resources for old ageResources for old age....
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Positive Aging in the Context of Precarity: Conclusions and Implications

Crăciun, Irina Catrinel

Pages: 167 –192

[This chapter comprises the research conclusions and implications for practice and policyPolicy. The chapter argues that positive agingPositive agingcan exist in precarious contexts, because precarityPrecarity models how middle-aged individuals imagine old age and how they enact preparations for...

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