Shaping Ageing

Adriana Teodorescu is Associate Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania, and the co-editor of Death in Contemporary Popular Culture.Dan Chiribucă is Professor of Sociology at Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania.

• Introduction: Ageing Matters: A Constructivist Perspective Part 1: Theories and Narratives of Ageing and Old Age 1. The Philosophic Homework of Later Life: On Narrative, Wisdom, and the Positive Potential of Growing Old 2. Gerontophobia: The Cultural Roots of the Old-Age Anxiety in Contemporary Society 3. Cougars and Crones: Maverick Archetypes for Older Women 4. Visual Representations of Older Persons: Current Discourses and their Historical Roots 5. ‘Positive Ageing Happens in The West’: Ageing Perceptions and Active Ageing Policy Implementation Among Romanian General Practitioners Part 2: Ageing and Old Age in Different Spaces 6. ‘It’s Okay to Color Outside the Lines’: Living, Ageing and Dying in a Hospice ‘Home’ 7. Ageing Behind Locked Doors: Growing Older in Secure Mental Health Care and Prison Settings 8. Providing Elderly Care in Precarious Settings: A Case Study in Lima, Peru 9. Risks and Promises of Being Old in Social Media 10. Beauty in Later Life: Voices from Older Korean Women in New Zealand