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Christian Lalive d'Épinay. Vieillir ou la vie à inventer. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1991, pp. 303.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2010

Frédéric Lesemann
Frédéric Lesemann
Affiliation:
École de service social, Université de Montréal.
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Abstract

Based on 138 interviews with elderly persons living at home, aged 60 to 80, the book presents a sociological analysis of the ageing process. These persons talk about sources of joy or stress and anxiety for them. They describe their everyday life made up of constant negotiation and invention of their material and psychological living conditions. Day after day they invent, organise and reorganise these conditions especially when periods of dependancy happen. The book also includes an analysis of the adversity of representations, according to social classes, as regards retirement, former professional activities, management of everyday space and time conditions, decline, illness and death.

Type
Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus
Information
Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement , Volume 12 , Issue 2: Qualitative Methods/Les méthodes qualitatives , Été/Summer 1993 , pp. 266 - 269
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association on Gerontology 1993

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Lalive, d'Épinay C., et al. (1983). Vieillesses. Situations, itinéraires et modes de vie despersonnes âgés aujourd'hui. Lausanne: Georgi.Google Scholar