Becoming and Being Old

Introduction PART ONE: BECOMING OLD Property Rites? An Investigation of Tenure Change in Middle Age - Cherrie Stubbs Between Work and Retirement - Frank Laczko Becoming `Old' in the 1980s Work-Ending - Tom Schuller Employment and Ambiguity in Later Life A Part to Play - Jonathan Long Men Experiencing Leisure through Retirement PART TWO: BEING OLD Transitions in Caring - Sara Arber and G Nigel Gilbert Gender, Life Course and the Care of the Elderly Poverty, Care and Age - Bill Bytheway A Case Study Differentiation in Later Life - Maria Evandrou and Christina R Victor Social Class and Housing Tenure Cleavages The Living Arrangements of the Elderly in Europe in the 1980s - Richard Wall PART THREE: OLD AGE Ageing and Old Age - Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth Reflections on the Postmodern Life Course Does Age Matter? The Case of Old Age in Minority Ethnic Groups - Ken Blakemore

`Stimulating and interesting... should be in libraries as a resource for a variety of tutors and students.' - Nursing the Elderly `This is an exciting collection of papers because it brings together such a variety of research and conceptualizing and places them in a cumulative relationship to each other.... It will have a place in the serious literature and in student bibliographies for some years to come' - Journal of Educational Gerontology `Well written and thoughtful.... Strongly recommended for all libraries supporting programs in gerontology' - Choice `A stimulating sample of contemporary British studies of becoming and being old... a well-written set of papers providing new opportunities for the advance of theory and research' - Ageing and Society `A stimulating and interesting text... should be in libraries as a resource for a variety of tutors and students... of particular interest to those who are undertaking further studies in community nursing whether they be health visitor, community psychiatric or district nurse students. All would find this book a useful resource to `dip' into' - Nursing Standard 'An interesting look at `becoming and being old' from the viewpoint of the academic sociologist' - Help the Aged Today `Provides a useful introduction to the variety of British research on the later stages of the life cycle. And it also highlights the importance of being aware of such factors as the economy, housing and social welfare provisions in shaping people's experiences of aging' - Canadian Journal of Sociology