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- Fiestas, Saints and Spirituality: Collective Rituals as Community
Eldercare in Andalusia
Authors: Chloë Place
Pages: 1 - 23
Abstract: In this paper, I explore how spirituality and collective rituals influence eldercare in a small town in Andalusia, Spain. I describe how older people’s interactions with the town’s Virgin Mary statues generate personhood, situating the Virgin saints as spiritually protective kinship care-givers. As ubiquitous religious symbols, the saints can be recognised by some people with dementia, providing reassuring familiarity. Older people nearing end-of-life seem to draw comfort from these saints, who become mediators between everyday and spiritual worlds. During fiestas, the statues are carried as part of celebratory processions, stimulating intergenerational solidarity and spiritual protection, and strengthening residents’ sense of belonging, which can be especially valuable to older people at risk of isolation. In care institutions, activities encourage older people to participate in fiestas, reaffirming their community membership. For people with dementia, the multisensorial nature of fiestas can be therapeutic by inciting embodied long-term memories, whilst their seasonality can be reorientating. This paper brings insights from the anthropology of religion into dialogue with the anthropology of ageing by arguing that religious rituals have the capacity to generate a spiritually and collectively therapeutic role in eldercare; this then reveals the need to approach eldercare as ‘community-centred.’ It further demonstrates the capability of ethnography to reveal the diverse ways that collective cultural practices can influence eldercare.
PubDate: 2022-11-18
DOI: 10.5195/aa.2022.384
Issue No: Vol. 43, No. 2 (2022)
- Designing Products for Older People’s Social and Emotional Needs: A
Case Study
Authors: P.J. White
Pages: 24 - 39
Abstract: The products that we use in our living environment greatly assist us in maintaining health and independence as we age. Much research has been conducted on the physical ergonomic needs in product design for older people, overlooking an understanding of the ‘softer’ functionality that domestic products offer. Through an ethnographic case study of older peoples' cooking and heating product needs (N=40), this paper presents 1) a theoretical framework which supports the need for designers to consider social and emotional connections when designing domestic products for older people and 2) practical implications and requirements for future designers to consider when designing these products. In this paper, I encourage designers to consider the reflective and visceral connections domestic products hold and how products can both inhibit and increase social inclusion.
PubDate: 2022-11-18
DOI: 10.5195/aa.2022.364
Issue No: Vol. 43, No. 2 (2022)
- Ageing in Space: Remaking Community for Older Adults
Authors: Gudmund Ågotnes, Sara Charlesworth, Martha MacDonald
Pages: 40 - 57
Abstract: In this paper, we explore the needs of older adults for social interaction by investigating how local and everyday communities are produced by service organisations and experienced by their patrons. We approach the social needs of older adults through the lens of ‘community,’ both as a concept and as a lived experience. Our attention to communities of peers and arenas for everyday interaction is discussed in the context of the dominant policy discourse of ‘ageing in place.’ In this discourse, ‘place’ is predominantly interpreted as physical infrastructure, with little formal recognition of the importance of the arenas of social everyday interaction for older adults outside the home/family.Our exploration draws on the empirical study of three organisations in Toronto, Canada and Bergen, Norway that, in various ways, represent places for everyday interaction. We discuss how belonging is understood from the perspective of different older groups and how it is facilitated by organisations and services, through the creation of shared, informal social spaces. Even though there is considerable difference in size, aesthetics, target population and geographical impact field, all three organisations offered their patrons a space for informal social interaction in which they were allowed to claim the space as their own. Our analysis indicates a pronounced need for a diversity of arenas for older adults to interact socially. Furthermore, we portray how these spaces for everyday interaction are created often in addition to, or even in divergence from, the official mission of these organisations, in a form of co-optation by patrons.
PubDate: 2022-11-18
DOI: 10.5195/aa.2022.391
Issue No: Vol. 43, No. 2 (2022)
- The Myth of Average: Active Senior Citizens in the Aomori Prefecture in
Japan
Authors: Motohide Miyahara
Pages: 58 - 66
Abstract: Japan is known for the highest life expectancy in the world, but there are regional variations within the country. Aomori, located at the northern tip of Japan’s mainland, is the prefecture characterized by heavy snow in winter and the lowest average life expectancies for women and men. Their short life expectancies have been attributed to excessive sodium intake and physical inactivity. In this short-term reflexive ethnography, I take the postpositivist stance and set up a strawman claim of “all citizens of Aomori Prefecture are physically inactive” in order to falsify it by providing a counter example. The counter example is a community of very senior citizens over 80 years of age who are physically and socially active in playing indoor golf. My purpose in writing this research report is to share an encounter with a unique community through a contextualized physical activity setting and a reflection on issues related to the community’s survival. The theoretical model of physical literacy has informed my observations, conversations, and reflections that are narrated in the impressionist mode. My narrative demonstrates that there are physically active senior citizens in the Aomori Prefecture. Moreover, my interview with an organizer uncovered that the senior golf players were facing challenges to participate in and sustain the golf program in the future.
PubDate: 2022-11-18
DOI: 10.5195/aa.2022.408
Issue No: Vol. 43, No. 2 (2022)
- Reconstructing Social Networks and Connections in Indigenous Tribes: An
Analysis of Countermeasures to COVID-19 among Rural Tribes in Taiwan
Authors: Li-Chuan Liu
Pages: 67 - 78
Abstract: Since the first outbreak of COVID-19 in December 2019, numerous countries have experienced waves of outbreaks that have had severe social, economic, and political effects. Many medical and anthropological studies have suggested that tribes and elders in rural and indigenous villages became isolated from the outside world due to a lack of resources and because of cultural constraints. On January 22, 2020, the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Taiwan was discovered. As of October 23, 2022, 7,476,478 confirmed cases have been reported; of these, only 64,298 were in Taitung County, making it the region with the fewest cases in Taiwan. In this ethnographic study, I visited indigenous tribes in Taiwan that were less affected during the pandemic, conducted in-depth interviews with tribal-care providers, and collected secondary data from reports and social media regarding pandemic prevention on tribes in Taitung County. I also explored the difficulties created by the suspension of tribal-care services due to pandemic-related social distancing and isolation measures, and how care providers overcame these challenges. COVID-19 is not the first and nor will it be the last virus to threaten humans. Thus, it is important to gain insight into how care networks and connections were rebuilt through innovative measures that enabled tribal elders to receive culturally sensitive care and maintain their health during the pandemic.
PubDate: 2022-11-18
DOI: 10.5195/aa.2022.410
Issue No: Vol. 43, No. 2 (2022)
- PORTFOLIO: Way(s) We Remember: Mexican Kinships, Intersubjective
Storytelling, and Thinking and Feeling Through Comics
Authors: José Sherwood González
Pages: 79 - 101
Abstract: n/a
PubDate: 2022-11-18
DOI: 10.5195/aa.2022.386
Issue No: Vol. 43, No. 2 (2022)
- Book Review: Ways of Home Making in Care for Later Life
Authors: Francisca Yuenki Lai
Pages: 102 - 104
Abstract: n/a
PubDate: 2022-11-18
DOI: 10.5195/aa.2022.430
Issue No: Vol. 43, No. 2 (2022)
- Book Review: Welcome to Wherever We Are: A Memoir of Family, Caregiving,
and Redemption
Authors: Christina Barmon
Pages: 105 - 107
Abstract: n/a
PubDate: 2022-11-18
DOI: 10.5195/aa.2022.429
Issue No: Vol. 43, No. 2 (2022)
- Book Review: Age as Disease: Anti-Aging Technologies, Sites and Practices
Authors: Ashwin Tripathi
Pages: 108 - 110
Abstract: n/a
PubDate: 2022-11-18
DOI: 10.5195/aa.2022.431
Issue No: Vol. 43, No. 2 (2022)
- Book Review: Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction
Authors: Arthur Ivan Bravo
Pages: 111 - 113
Abstract: n/a
PubDate: 2022-11-18
DOI: 10.5195/aa.2022.432
Issue No: Vol. 43, No. 2 (2022)
- Book Review: Disability and Ageing: Towards a Critical Perspective
Authors: Yvonne Wallace
Pages: 114 - 115
Abstract: n/a
PubDate: 2022-11-18
DOI: 10.5195/aa.2022.433
Issue No: Vol. 43, No. 2 (2022)
- Book Review: Making Meaningful Lives: Tales from an Aging Japan
Authors: Theresa Southam
Pages: 116 - 118
Abstract: n/a
PubDate: 2022-11-18
DOI: 10.5195/aa.2022.434
Issue No: Vol. 43, No. 2 (2022)
- Book Review: Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants
Negotiate Later Life
Authors: Jeanne L. Shea
Pages: 119 - 121
Abstract: n/a
PubDate: 2022-11-18
DOI: 10.5195/aa.2022.436
Issue No: Vol. 43, No. 2 (2022)
- Book Review: Communication for Successful Aging: Empowering Individuals
Across the Lifespan
Authors: Aaron Seaman
Pages: 122 - 125
Abstract: n/a
PubDate: 2022-11-18
DOI: 10.5195/aa.2022.437
Issue No: Vol. 43, No. 2 (2022)
- Book Review: The Global Smartphone: Beyond a Youth Technology
Authors: Paro Mishra
Pages: 126 - 129
Abstract: n/a
PubDate: 2022-11-18
DOI: 10.5195/aa.2022.438
Issue No: Vol. 43, No. 2 (2022)
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