The 6th International Symposium on Cultural Gerontology
16th, 17th & 18th October 2008
Paper and poster abstracts
1. PAPERS
(In alphabetical order)
1. Ojo M. Agunbiade, Titilayo Ayotunde, and Mustapha Opatola: Religious Doctrines and Sexuality in Old Age: Perspectives of Older Adults in Two Yoruba Communities in Osun State, Nigeria
2. Sirpa Andersson: The significance of home in older couple’s lives
3. Olabisi James Ayodele: Ageing, Vulnerability to Criminality and Victimization in Nigeria
4. Ester Baiget-Bonany: Reading and ageing in Alan Bennet’s Confessions of an uncommon reader, Anne Fadiman’s Ex Libris. Confessions of a common reader, and Jaume Cabré’s La matčria de l’esperit
5. Cathy Bailey, Clodagh Cunningham, Lisa Coga, and Simon W. Roberts: “I fell out of my standing”: Falls narratives and the Language of Ageing
6. Susan Ballyn: The Invisible Vulnerability of the Elderly
7. Esther Bautista-Naranjo: Dorian Gray’s fall from grace, the price to pay for immortality
8. Lars Bergstrom: Tradition, Generation and Responsibility
9. Joanna Bornat and Bill Bytheway: Tracking the lives of the oldest generation
10. Nela Bureu-Ramos: Portrait of the girl as an ageing woman: when literature finally makes sense
11. Núria Casado-Gual: Old age as theatrical matter: Devising and performing CollAge, a play on the masks and mirrors of the ageing process
12. Rita Cavigioli: Fifteen years later, in an older and more diverse country: comparing Italian students’ aging narratives in the early 1990s and at the end of the first decade of the 21st century
13. Berith Nyqvist Cech: A bridge of culture between research, the elderly women and social care?
14. Marta Cerezo-Moreno: “Lots of colors into grays”: The Merging of Youth into Old Age in John Updike’s Seek My Face
15. N.K. Chadha, and Dimpy Mahanta: Intergenerational Gap: Indian Context
16. Maria Ana B. Diaz: Perception, Attitude, and Coping Strategies of the Elderly Women at Risk
17. Catherine Yvonne Dinkelmann: Stories of Belonging—a tapestry of stories. Using narrative enquiry and visual art to investigate individual and collective identity within a residential aged care facility
18. Emma Domínguez-Rué: Good Old Men in the New South: Portraits of Elderly Male Characters in Ellen Glasgow’s Novels
19. Ricca Edmondson: Wisdom in Later Life and a Humanistic Approach to Gerontology
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21. Eileen Fairhurst, and Susan Baines: Health and Well-Being of Older Individuals: a Case study of a Positive Image of Ageing Campaign and the Production of a Calendar
22. Florinda de Fiesta-Mateo: Representations of the Filipino Elderly on Philippine Primetime Television
23. Jaime Raúl Seixas Fonseca, and Telma Palma Cristina Alves: A Population of Older People: How They See Themselves and How They Look at Life
24. Pamela Garvey: Patronizing the Elderly: Fragmentation and Dehumanization in Contemporary American Fiction
25. Teresa Gibert: Why Survive? A Satiric Deconstruction of Being ‘Old’ in America
26. Rochelle M. Goldman: Challenging Representations of Old Women in U.S. Film: Ageism Revealed
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28. Evy Gunnarsson: Older people’s meaning of everyday life, ageing and the lived body
29. AnnaLena Hållner: Chronological Ordering and the Representation of Old Age. The Integration of Literary Theory in Literary Gerontology
30. Marius-Adrian Hazaparu: Being old and getting old in Romania: ageing frames in Romanian newspapers
31. Satu Maarit Heikkinen: To drive or not to drive—older people and car-driving in Swedish transportation policy
32. Laura Hurd Clarke, Meridith Griffin, and Kate Maliha: Bat Wings, Bunions, and Turkey Wattles: Body Transgressions and Older Women’s Strategic Clothing Choices
33. Sari Irni: Mapping migration, ethnicity and the ‘ageing Europe’
34. Alana Jackson: Language, Identity and Images of Ageing in Rulfo’s El Llano en Llamas
35. Andy James: The Linguistic Effects of the Aging Process in Kingsley Amis’s Ending Up
36. Outi Jolanki: Agency and old age
37. Håkan Jönson, and Annika Thagizadeh Larsson: The exclusion of older people in disability activism and policies—a case of inadvertent ageism?
38. Jung, Sung-chae: Travel Motivation of Older Korean
39. Pilar Jürschik-Giménez, Carmen Nuin-Orrio, Teresa Botigué-Satorra, and Ana Lavedan-Santamaría: Factors related to loneliness and sadness in elderly people
40. Jyrki Jyrkämä: Agency as an approach in old age care research
41. Antti Karisto, Anja Kuhalampi, Arto Tiihonen, and Terhi Willman: Identity Work with Creative Methods—Older Adults as Graphic and Personal Novelists
42. Eija Kaskiharju: The places of ageing in parliamentary speeches
43. Stephen Katz: Enhancing the Mind? Memory, Anti-Aging, and The Biosocial Brain
43b. Younghee Kim, Kayla Scherf, Nancy Boudreau, and Karen Bakies: Inequality of Health Status among American Elderly Persons: Racial, Age and Gender differences of Serum Vitamin D levels
44. Hans-Joachim von Kondratowitz: Contrasting Cultural Definitions of “Good Elder Care.” Perceptions and Interpretations of Polish Female Care Workers in Direct Elder Care Work in German Private Households
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46. Chaya Koren, and Zvi Eisikovits: Life beyond the planned script: Accounts of elder Israelis who created second couple-hood in old age
47. Clary Krekula: Age coding: Negotiated age identities and constructions of “the Other”
48. Carmen Lara-Rallo: Ageing and Geology in Recent British Fiction
49. Aet Leemet: Writing wrinkles
50. Anu Leinonen, and Teppo Kröger: Reconciliation of paid work and informal care for older people: bringing new perspectives into research on family care
51. Dídac Llorens-Cubedo: The Days of Darkness in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot and Salvador Espriu
52. Karin Lövgren: “New opportunities in midlife”—On popular magazines aimed at women readers aged over 45
53. Dimpy Mahanta, and N.K. Chadha: The Cycle of Care-Giving and Receiving
54. Marta Miquel-Baldellou: From the Young Student to the Old Caxtonian: Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s Lifetime Reflections on Victorian Ageing
54b. Anindya Jayanta Mishra: Do Indian elderly desire culturally prescribed care and reciprocity? A study of the Old Age Home Residents of India
55. Ricardo Navarrete-Franco: Remembrance and Oblivion in George Eliot’s Middlemarch and James Joyce’s Ulysses
56. Montse Navarro-Diez, Adela Zabalegui-Yárnoz, Esther Cabrera-Torres, Albert Gallart-Fernandez-Puebla, María Dolores Bardallo-Porras, and Encarna Rodriguez-Higueros: Elderly Caregiver Interventions. Are they effective?
57. Magnus Nilsson: The discourse of ageism within anti-ageist policy
58. Jill Eversole Nolan: Aging in Place using a Cooperative Housing Model
59. Carmen Nuin-Orrio, Pilar Jürschik-Giménez, Miguel Angel Escobar-Bravo, Teresa Botigué-Satorra, and Ana Lavedan-Santamaría: Fragility in elderly people: the influence of social relationships
60. Jaana Nummijoki: Cultivating agency in home care. Transforming the paradigms for encounters between home care-workers and their elderly clients
61. Deirdre O’Donnell: The (Be)coming of Age—Explorations in theoretical approaches to the lived experience of ageing
62. Neha Ojha: The Phenomena of Ageing—“miles to go before I sleep…”
63. Maricel Orķ-Piqueras: Wrinkles and Selves: Time and Memory through the Ageing Body in Penelope Lively’s Spiderweb and Doris Lessing’s Love, Again
64. Listyati Setyo Palupi: Is there any gender difference in the psychological well-being of elderly people?
65. John Pendergast: Quarrels with Time: Shakespeare and ‘Late Style’
66. Cynthia Port: Age Studies, Cultural History, and Modernism
67. David Rampton: The Ethical Turn. Ageing in Late Roth
68. [Poster presentation - see below]
69. Maria Cecilia R. San Luis: A sociological exploration of childless elderly women’s uncertain source of security: Life histories of marginalized Filipina elderly
70. Cormac Sheehan: Homes, Social Connections, Roles. Ethnographic Encounters with Older Persons Living Alone in Ireland
71. Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill and Julia Schonheinz: Transnational Networks - Supporting Older Transylvanian Saxons in Romania
72. Anushiya Sivanarayanan: Calling on “Our Boys”: The Rise of Tamil Militant Rhetoric in Sri Lanka
73. Katarzyna Smyczynska: Popular Culture and The Ageing Woman: On Trinny and Susannah’s Philosophy of Style
74. Jenni Spännäri: Ageing and Religious Language—From Religious Coping to Sustaining Collective Identities
75. Aagje Swinnen: “Cheer Up! Death is Round the Corner.” The Polyphonic Representation of Old Age in The Lemon Table by Julian Barnes
76. Sandip Talukdar: The middle-class elderly in contemporary India: globalization and cultural readjustments
77. Tarja Tapio: How connection with nature embodies agency in a rural village in Tornionlaakso, North Sweden
78. Nina Taunton: The Triumph of Age: All’s Well that Ends Well
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80. Emmanuelle Tulle, Claire Ballinger, Dawn Skelton, and Christina Victor: Ageing, Exercise and Culture: Pointers for a critical research agenda
81. Julia Twigg: Clothing, Identity and the Embodiment of Age
82. Sinikka Vakimo: Aspects of Research Ethics in Cultural Gerontology
83. Penny Vera-Sanso: The impact of globalisation on older people’s livelihoods in South India
84. Daisuke Watanabe: Group activity of older people and ambivalence of work experiences. The case study of three retirees in one bamboo charcoal-making club in Japan
85. Anna Whitaker: Parenthood, disability and ageing—a life course perspective on care-giving
86. Virpi Ylänne and Angie Williams: Images of older people in TV advertising—a focus group study
87. Adela Zabalegui-Yárnoz, Carmen Nuin-Orrio, Esther Cabrera-Torres, Albert Gallart-Fernandez-Puebla, María Dolores Bardallo-Porras, Roser. Ricomā-Muntané, Joana Barbera-Cortada, and Magdalena Perez-Esquiva: Palliative elderly care in Spain
2. POSTERS
(In alphabetical order)
1. Rafael Allepuz-Capdevila, Joan Pere Enciso-Rodríguez, Mariona Farré-Perdiguer, and Cecilio.Lapresta-Rey: Economic and social implications of Ageing. The case of the city of Lleida
2. Yaacov G. Bachner, Sara Carmel, and Eldad Davidov: Caregivers’ Communication with Patients about Illness and Death: Initial Validation of a Scale
3. Yrjö Engeström, Anna-Liisa Niemelä, Jaana Nummijoki, and Juha Nyman: A project to cultivate promising best practices for prevention of social exclusion of elderly people in the Helsinki home-care system
4. Håkan Jönson, and Tove Persson: Family Members’ Claims about Mistreatment in Old Age Care
5. Mercč Mateu-Serra, and Marc Esteve-Laporta: Creativity and elderly people: artistic motor practices in physical activity programmes
6. Ramona Ribes-Castells, and Anna Soldevila-Benet: The opportunity of growing older
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