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Religion and aging in international and intercultural perspectives : mapping the field / Andrea Bieler and Matthias Stracke -- Interdisciplinary horizons. The longevity revolution : global developments and ways forward / Ina Voelcker and Alexandre Kalache -- Themes in contemporary behavioral and social gerontology / Hans-Werner Wahl -- Debunking myths of aging : implications for church participation of older adults / Jenny S. Y. Lee and Helene H Fung -- When religion matters : aging, health and care in Indonesia and Tanzania / Peter van Eeuwijk -- Theological contributions.-- Discourse on religion and aging : integrating theological and intercultural perspectives / Ralph Kunz -- A paradox of life : finding meaning in aging : horizons in theological anthropology / Angel F Mendez-Montoya OP -- And Sarah laughed : observations on Bible, aging and postcoloniality / Musa Dube -- "Who do you say that I am?" : people living with dementia in medical de-constructions and liturgical reconstructions and play / Drea Frochtling -- Concepts, challenges and innovative practice. -- Emerging discourse on aging in the United Evangelical Mission Angelika Veddeler -- Diaconic challenges in elderly care on three continents -Indonesia, Germany, Tanzania and the Philippines / Klaus Poschel -- Protagonism and the role of older people in policy-making - a bottom-up approach / Ina Voelcker -- "With this Alzheimer thing you can't walk alone : walking with and supporting people living with dementia / Drea Frochtling -- Religion and aging in international and intercultural perspectives : a conference commentary and research prospects from a diaconic perspective / Reate Hofmann

1. Community development and hospices : a national UK perspective / Libby Sallnow, Antonia Bunnin and Heather Richardson -- 2. Developing community support networks at the end of life in Weston-super-Mare, UK / Julian Abel and Ditch Townsend -- 3. Compassionate community in Shropshire, West Midlands, England / Paul Cronin -- 4. Compassionate community in Sandwell, West Midlands, England / Mangula Patel -- 5. Community partnerships : a public health approach to ageing, death, dying and loss / Siobhan Horton, Rachel Zammit and Bie Nio Ong -- 6. The compassionate city charter : inviting the cultural and social sectors into end of life care / Allan Kellehear -- 7. 'Join Bill United!' : Compassionate communities in Limerick, Ireland / Kathleen McLoughlin and Jim Rhatigan -- 8. Caring community in living and dying in Landeck, Tyrol, Austria / Klaus Wegleitner, Patrick Schuchter and Sonja Prieth -- 9. 'Ethics from the bottom up' : promoting networks and participation through shared stories of care / Patrick Schuchter and Andreas Heller -- 10. Dementia-friendly pharmacy : a doorway in the community in Vienna and Lower Austria / Petra Plunger. [et al.] --11. A convent initiative : compassionate community in Solothurn, Switzerland / Elisabeth Wappelshammer and Christine Weissenberg -- 12. Community palliative care in Eastern Switzerland : the role of local forums in developing palliative care culture and enabling ethical discourse / Katharina Linsi and Karin Kaspers-Elekes -- 13. Dementia-friendly communities : together for a better life with (and without) dementia / Reimer Gronemeyer and Verena Rothe -- 14. On the way to a caring community? : The German debate / Thomas Klie.

Alzheimer Cafés may play an important psychosocial supporting role in the life of people living with dementia and of their family caregivers by providing a community of understanding, in­clusion, solidarity and mutual support. They can promote policy-, professional- and social dis­courses, the recognition of dementia as a social reality, and overall awareness of this complex challenge. They can also foster transdisciplinary collaboration among professionals as well as between professionals and lay people affected by dementia based on mutual understanding, cat­alysing the formation and operation of acting communities and networks of interest.
The active and purposeful presence and activities of Alzheimer Cafés on Internet platforms, in the increasingly prominent channels and fields of social discourse and community life in the 21st century, can be an important tool in the realization of these benefits.
This two-part paper analyses the publicly accessible online footprint and behaviour of Alz­heimer Cafés from this perspective as measured by a list of 10 possible functions. It scrutinizes the realisation of possible benefits and advantages offered by Internet platforms between Sep­tember 2019 and August 2020, with a special focus on technology-based adaptive responses to the coronavirus-outbreak midway through that period.
The first part of the paper (Kucsera – Holpert 2021) briefly overviewed the Alzheimer Café concept and its history in Hungary, presented the methodology of the study and the first half of the research results. This second part of the paper presents the rest of the results, and makes recommendations for making more effective use of the potential of online platforms to realise the goals.

Sexual difference as a basis of equality : an introduction to Irigarayan politics -- Irigaray on language : from the speech of dementia to the problem of sexual indifference -- Rethinking the politics of recognition : the declaration of Irigarayan sexuate rights -- Irigarayan performativity : is this a question of can saying it make it so? -- Sexuate genre : ethics and politics for improper selves -- Anticipating sexual difference : mediation, love, and divinity -- Interrogating an unasked question : is there sexual difference? -- The impossible friend : traversing the heterosocial, the homosocial, and the successes of failure -- Sexed discourse and the language of the philosophers : to be two -- Effacement redoubled? : between the Orient and the Occident

This article investigates McEwan's poignant figurative use of ideas from the New Physics, his testing of their availability to quotidian reality, and determines to what extent and with what results—wonder, illusion, dementia, psychosis—the protagonist's behaviour is affected by a quantum mindset. An attempt is made to identify and define the kind of worldview and time-concept, physical or metaphysical, which is ultimately upheld by the novel's narrative structure and style, and to ascertain how far these are rooted in the Newtonian tradition of empirical realism which the book's theoretical discourse challenges. Time-reversal and parallel worlds theory are considered in the context of the novel's millenial-dystopian political vision.

This article investigates McEwan's poignant figurative use of ideas from the New Physics, his testing of their availability to quotidian reality, and determines to what extent and with what results—wonder, illusion, dementia, psychosis—the protagonist's behaviour is affected by a quantum mindset. An attempt is made to identify and define the kind of worldview and time-concept, physical or metaphysical, which is ultimately upheld by the novel's narrative structure and style, and to ascertain how far these are rooted in the Newtonian tradition of empirical realism which the book's theoretical discourse challenges. Time-reversal and parallel worlds theory are considered in the context of the novel's millenial-dystopian political vision.

"Lines of flight are dragged behind you all your life." Post-Memory, Old Age, and Forgetting in Ulrike Draesner's Novel Sieben Sprünge vom Rand der Welt (2014)
In contemporary German literature, particularly in the family novels that are key to the post-memory discourse of the past, there is a marked interest in the dysfunctions and deformations of memory associated with ageing processes. Demographic changes lead researchers to consider the determinants and the existing dominant themes and categories of interdisciplinary memory studies. Ulrike Draesner's 2014 novel, Sieben Sprünge vom Rand der Welt, the subject of this paper, probes the meanders of memory and forgetting, examining their configurations in intergenerational relations. I am interested here in the threads that have been marginalized in the popular discourse on the flight and resettlement of millions of Germans from the eastern provinces of the Reich, which emerge along with the progressive dementia of one of the novel's main characters.

Ageing, meaning and social structure is a unique book advancing critical discourse in gerontology and makes a major contribution to understanding key social and ethical dilemmas facing ageing societies. It confronts and integrates approaches that have been relatively isolated from each other, and interrelates two major streams of thought within critical gerontology: analyses of structural issues in the context of political economy and humanistic perspectives on issues of existential meaning. The chapters, from a wide range of contributors, focus on major issues in ageing such as autonomy, agency, frailty, lifestyle, social isolation, dementia and professional challenges in social work and participatory research. This volume should be valuable reading for scholars and graduate students in gerontology and humanistic studies, as well as for policy-makers and practitioners working in the field of ageing

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Introduction: Contextualising disability and sexuality studies -- Part I Theoretical frames and intersections -- Chapter 1 Theorising disabled people's sexual, intimate, and erotic lives: Current theories for disability and sexuality -- Chapter 2 Theoretical developments: Queer theory meets crip theory -- Chapter 3 Thinking differently with Deleuze about the sexual capacities of bodies and the case of infertility amongst men with Down syndrome -- Chapter 4 A critical rethinking of sexuality and dementia: A prolegomenon to future work in critical dementia studies and critical disability studies -- Chapter 5 Combating old ideas and building identity: Sexual identity development in people with disabilities -- Chapter 6 Sexuality and disability in Brazil: Contributions to the promotion of agency and social justice -- Part II Subjugated histories and negotiating traditional discourses -- Chapter 7 Sexuality, disability and madness in California's eugenics era -- Chapter 8 Disability rights through reproductive justice: Eugenic legacies in the abortion wars -- Chapter 9 Sexuality and the disregard of lived reality: The sexual abuse of children and young people with disabilities -- Chapter 10 Sexuality and physical disability: Perspectives and practice within Orthodox Judaism -- Part III Politics, policies and legal frames across the world -- Chapter 11 Sexual citizenship, disability policy and facilitated sex in Sweden -- Chapter 12 Sexual health and disability in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 13 "Tick the straight box": Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) people with intellectual disabilities in the UK.

AbstractThe study investigates story-telling in naturally-occurring interactions in a care home for older people with dementia in England. Stories were told by a range of discourse participants and varied from more relationally-oriented anecdotes occurring as part of small talk to more transactionally-oriented narratives embedded into work routines. The main aim of the study was to explore narratives as social practice in the interactions of the care staff and to discover what functions they perform in their workplace practice and more generally in that of the care home. The analysis focused principally on two primarily work-oriented narrative types: "working stories" and "narratives of professional practice". The findings were that such stories performed a range of key functions in the professional practice of the care givers, in particular problem-solving, knowledge-sharing and critical evaluation.

AbstractEnergized by seminal scholarship within narrative studies; communication studies of aging and dementia; and formulaic language, we examined a wide range of stories told multiple times within two different longitudinal collections of verbal interactions involving two women in their 80s (one US American; one French). Based on multifaceted analyses of these longitudinal series of stories, we identified a new type of narrative, the "narrative crystal". We characterize the internal formal architecture of two illustrative crystals (one from each corpus) before illuminating how such crystals function for their speakers as reassuring interactional "stepping stones" within their larger discourse surroundings. Our findings sketch a possible developmental process regarding how meaningful personal experiences come to be transformed over the lifespan: from the inchoate qualities of first-time tellings shaped by the interaction, through incrementally increased stability over the course of many tellings, to reach the highly durable nature of narrative crystals.

In this piece we explore the COVID pandemic as an opportunity for the articulation and realization of digital health futures. Our discussion draws on an engagement with emergent discourse around COVID-19 and ongoing work on imaginaries of future care associated with digital tools for the detection of cognitive decline and the risk of dementia. We describe how the post-COVID futures of digital health are narrated in terms of the timing and speed with which they are being brought into being, as market actors attempt to establish the scale and durability of the COVID transformation. However, we also point to the particularly spatial changes to medical practice they envisage. In a time of distancing and isolation, the ability to operate effectively at a distance has become integral to the future of medical assessment, diagnosis and care. However, spatialized promises of digital health and the ability to act remotely are unevenly spread – some organizations and entities inevitably have greater reach.

The emergence, social differentiation, and reproduction of human communities require socialization of the young. Socialization practices require caregivers and socially distributed, intuitive, normative knowledge systems to enable progeny to acquire and sustain habitual, socially organized skills and belief systems. Neurobiological, cognitive, emotional, and socio-cultural evolution enabled and paralleled the acquisition of communicative and socio-cultural skills indispensable for the emergence and reproduction of a sense of others. Stable adult capacities differentially weaken over the life cycle. This 'reverse socialization' means gradual loss of self, sense of others, and decline of routine practices necessary for reproduction of communal life. A modest corpus of data (10 minutes of discourse between six couples, two deemed 'normal', and four where one spouse diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease or Frontotemporal Dementia) is used to illustrate caregiver scaffolding simulation of appropriate socio-cultural interaction, illuminating the origin and demise of socio-cultural presentations of self from birth to death.

ABSTRACTIn the literature on Alzheimer's disease (AD), scholars have noted how both the disease and the people who are diagnosed as having it have been stigmatised. I argue here that the AD stigma is of a specific sort – it is dehumanisation based on disgust and terror. Although the blame for negative perceptions of people with AD has been placed on the biomedical understanding of dementia, I argue that strong negative emotional responses to AD are also buttressed by the social construction of people with AD as zombies. To illustrate this point, this paper identifies seven specific ways that the zombie metaphor is referenced in both the scholarly and popular literature on AD. This common referencing of zombies is significant as it infuses the social discourse about AD with a politics of revulsion and fear that separates and marginalises those with AD. It is in recognising the power of this zombie trope that its negative impact can be actively resisted through an emphasis of connectedness, commonality, and inter-dependency.

"Cover" -- "Half Title" -- "Title Page" -- "Copyright Page" -- "Table of Contents" -- "List of Contributors" -- "Preface" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Introduction: Towards Transdisciplinary Studies on Ageing in Africa" -- "Part I: Narratives and the Construction of Elderliness" -- "1 Towards a Cultural and Linguistic Construction of Late-life Dementia in an Urban African Population" -- "2 Identity Management and Old Age Construction among Xhosa-speakers in Urban South Africa: Complaint Discourse Revisited" -- "3 Imprints of History and Economy across the Life Course of an Elderly Namaqualander 1920-1996" -- "Part II: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Ageing and Seniority" -- "4 From Shrub to Log: The Ancestral Dimension of Elderhood among Sukuma in Tanzania" -- "5 Coming of Age and Authority: Milk as a Source of Power in Himbaland, Northem Namibia" -- "6 Social Categories and Seniority in a House-based Society" -- "Part III: Crises and Strategies of Elderhood" -- "7 Holding Up the Sky: Gender, Age and Work among the Abaluyia of Kenya" -- "8 Rhetoric of Remembrance: Privileged Authority of Elders and the Contested Gradations of Seniority" -- "9 'They Don't Listen': Contemporary Respect Relations between Zulu Grandmothers and Grandchildren" -- "10 The Toilet: Dignity, Privacy and Care of Elderly People in Kwahu, Ghana" -- "11 'They Talk to Us Like Children': Language and Intergenerational Discourse in First-time Encounters in an African Township" -- "12 Skeletons of the Past, Flesh and Blood of the Present: Remembrance and Older People in a South African Context" -- "Epilogue: African Gerontology: Critical Models, Future Directions" -- "Dedication