Author: Ulla Kriebernegg

Mediale Darstellungen und öffentliche Debatten setzen Demenz meist mit Verlust der Persönlichkeit gleich. Dieser Band zeigt das Gegenteil: Menschen mit Demenz sind selbstverantwortlich handelnde Pers …

Mediale Darstellungen und öffentliche Debatten setzen Demenz meist mit Verlust der Persönlichkeit gleich. Dieser Band zeigt das Gegenteil: Menschen mit Demenz sind selbstverantwortlich handelnde Pers …

The binary construction of »young« and »old«, which is based on a biogerontological model of aging as decline, can be redefined as the ambiguity of aging from a cultural studies perspective. This con …

The linking of age and ill-health is part of a cultural narrative of decline as age is often defined as the absence of good health. Research has shown that we are aged by culture, but we are also cul …

Institutional care for seniors offers a cultural repository for fears and hopes about an aging population. Although enormous changes have occurred in how institutional care is structured, the legacie …

Dieser Sammelband beschäftigt sich mit den im Projekt Who Cares? Alter(n) und Pflege gemeinsam neu denken gesammelten wissenschaftlichen und praxisbezogenen Erfahrungen und Erkenntnissen und umfasst …

A collection of essays that perceive Updike’s America through the eyes of Western and Eastern European readers and scholars, contributing to Updike scholarship while demonstrating his resonance acros …

How are long-term residential care and the construction of late-life identities connected in North American film and fiction? Through close readings of works by Margaret Atwood, Joan Barfoot, Oscar C …

Aging Studies and Ecocriticism: Interdisciplinary Encounters argues that both aging studies and ecocriticism address the complex dynamics of individual and collective agency, oppression and dependenc …