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Developing in Older Age

An Integrative View

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Buch | Softcover
280 Seiten
2026
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-50469-0 (ISBN)
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This book proposes an integrative view of human development in older age, demonstrating through case studies how a rich landscape of care fosters life-course development. It offers students and researchers a cross-disciplinary overview of ageing across the social sciences, and presents practical intervention suggestions for practitioners in care.
Despite rising life expectancies and growing attention to the increasing proportion of older persons in rich democracies, we still know surprisingly little about how people develop after 60. This book proposes an integrative approach to development in older age that expands sociocultural psychology across the life course. It shows that people develop into older age while acting, feeling, remembering, imagining, and moving in the spaces where they live and interact with others. The diversity and singularity of ageing trajectories is also studied, highlighting how deeply the environment can guide and support as well as expand upon or offer resources to older persons. The author demonstrates the role of carefully designed social and institutional settings and well-planned ageing policies in fostering 'ageing in place'. By exploring housing, formal and informal care networks, and everyday arrangements that help older persons live meaningful lives, this volume speaks to anyone concerned with ageing.

Tania Zittoun is a professor in sociocultural psychology at University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. She researches sociocultural psychology of the life course, showing the role of transitions, symbolic resources and imagination in development. Tania currently serves as President of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology, and is Associate Editor of Culture & Psychology and Theory & Psychology. She is also the author of The Pleasure of Thinking (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

1. Introduction; 2. Loose ends; 3. Promises; 4. Opening new routes; 5. Methodology; 6. Sociogenesis: shaping the landscape of care; 7. Microgenesis; daily activities, encounters and vital engagements; 8. Ontogenesis: housing histories, life trajectories – engagements and dynamic patterns; 9. A dialogic understanding of social and psychological change; 10. An integrative approach to human development; 11. Contributing to environmental gerontology; 12. Fostering ageing in place; 13. On dialogical case studies; References; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.5.2026
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Studium 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) Histologie / Embryologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-009-50469-X / 100950469X
ISBN-13 978-1-009-50469-0 / 9781009504690
Zustand Neuware
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