Informed by a critical turn underway in rural gerontology, this article explores how the
intersection of global and local trends relating to population aging and rural change create …

Intersectionality has received an increasing amount of attention in health inequalities
research in recent years. It suggests that treating social characteristics separately—mainly …

While there is a growing body of research on second language acquisition (SLA) in children,
adolescents, young and more mature adults, much remains to be explored about how adults …

(1) Background: The concept of positive ageing is gaining recognition as an approach to
better understand the lives of older adults throughout the world. Positive ageing …

Abstract The current North American successful aging movement offers a particular
normative model of how to age well, one tied to specific notions of individualist personhood …

We would like to thank Rachel Hazelwood, our Editorial Administrator for the Routledge
Handbook of Cultural Gerontology who showed organisation, patience and kindness …

This paper explores the role of abjection in understanding and interpreting the dichotomy
between the 'third'and the 'fourth'age. We use Kristeva's term abjection to refer to a realm of …

Once exceptional, a long life is now an everyday expectation for many citizens of the
prosperous nations. The consequence of this transformation in life expectancy however has …

Approaches to ageing that are organised around productivity, success, and active late life
have contributed to views of dementia as an unsuccessful, failed or 'frailed'old age …

Within policy and practice there is an increasing interest in the care of frail elders. However
understanding of the experience and challenges of living and dying with frailty in older age …