Ageing with Disability

Eva Jeppsson Grassman holds a chair as professor at Linköping University, Sweden. Her research comprises diverse life course and ageing issues concerning chronic illness and disability, civil society, care models, and end-of-life. Anna Whitaker is a senior lecturer and associate professor at Linköping University and Ersta Sköndal University College. Her research includes ageing issues, with focus on end-of-life and institutional eldercare, and on informal/family care in a disability context.

• Ageing with disability – An introduction ~ Eva Jeppsson Grassman and Anna Whitaker;Time, age and the failing body. A long life with disability ~ Eva Jeppsson Grassman;Disability, identity and ageing ~ Lotta Holme;Is it possible to ‘age successfully’ with extensive physical impairments? ~ Annika Taghizadeh Larsson;Being one’s illness: on mental disability and ageing ~ Per Bülow and Tommy Svensson;In the shade of disability reforms and policy – parenthood, ageing and life-long care ~ Anna Whitaker;Ageing and care among disabled couples ~ Cristina Joy Torgé;Living and ageing with disability – summary and conclusion ~ Anna Whitaker and Eva Jeppsson Grassman.

"This book is a significant contribution to the study of ageing and disability from a life course perspective. It provides a fascinating, theoretically well-informed treatise of how older people make sense of disability." Professor Rafael Lindqvist, Uppsala University, Sweden "This significant and original collection will change perspectives on the interplay between ageing and disability in ways that will be wholly beneficial to older people and policy making alike." Joanna Bornat, Emeritus Professor, The Open University