Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland: When life becomes craft
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Elektronische Ressource
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Verlag:
UCL Press
Ort:
London
Entstehungszeit:
2021
Sprache:
Englisch
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Abstract:
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 -- WhatsApp -- 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
Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland explores the use of smartphones by the middle-aged to ageing population in Ireland and argues how the phone has become a way for people to feel younger
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 -- WhatsApp -- 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
Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland explores the use of smartphones by the middle-aged to ageing population in Ireland and argues how the phone has become a way for people to feel younger
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