Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland when life becomes craft
There are not many books about how people get younger. It doesn't happen very often. But Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland documents a radical change in the experience of ageing.Based on two ethnographies, one within Dublin and the other from the Dublin region, the book shows that people, rath...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, England :
UCL Press
2021.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009745215806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of abbreviations
- Series Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Summary of conclusions
- Ireland: a historical and contemporary portrait
- Introduction to Ireland
- Anthropology in Ireland
- The focus on ageing
- Introduction to our fieldsites
- Cuan
- Thornhill
- Field methods
- Ethics and people
- Notes
- 2 Ageing and retirement
- Introduction
- Ageing and frailty: the subjective experience
- Complications: class and invisibility
- Retirement
- Retiring together: couples Ageing with smartphones
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 3 Everyday life: activities and routines
- Social Prescribing
- The individual's perspective
- Observing activities
- The ukulele group
- The Men's Shed
- Thornhill Strollers
- Craft and coffee
- Filling time
- Crafting routines
- Smartphones and special times
- Conclusion: crafting
- Notes
- 4 Ageing and social life
- Introduction
- Relationships with partners
- Relationships with parents
- Relationships with siblings and wider kin
- Grandparenting
- Friendships and loneliness
- Neighbours
- Conclusion
- Notes 5 Smartphones and ageing
- Smartphone infrastructure
- Talking about smartphones
- The wider context
- Learning and teaching smartphones
- Smartphone apps
- Personalisation
- The Irish smartphone
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 6 Health and care
- Health services, insurance and complementary health
- Responding through wellness
- Age, attitudes and behaviour
- Menopause
- Googling for health information
- Dementia and dying parents
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 7 Downsizing
- Introduction
- Alternatives to residential care
- Not downsizing
- Downsizing Divestment and decluttering
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 8 Life purpose
- Death and funerals
- The role of ethics
- Keeping active
- Walking and pilgrimage
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 9 Conclusion
- When life becomes craft
- An Irish ethos
- The smartphone
- Becoming younger
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover.
