Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Series editor’s foreword
- Introduction: the roles of meaning in (later) life
- one Lifecourses, insight and meaning
- two Diminishing older people: silence, occlusion and ‘fading out’
- three Lifetimes, meaning and listening to older people
- four Languages for life-course meaning and wisdom
- five Conclusion: ethics, insight and wisdom in intergenerational life-course construction
- References
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2022
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Series editor’s foreword
- Introduction: the roles of meaning in (later) life
- one Lifecourses, insight and meaning
- two Diminishing older people: silence, occlusion and ‘fading out’
- three Lifetimes, meaning and listening to older people
- four Languages for life-course meaning and wisdom
- five Conclusion: ethics, insight and wisdom in intergenerational life-course construction
- References
- Index
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- Ageing, Insight and WisdomMeaning and Practice across the Lifecourse, pp. i - iiPublisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2015