Day Brought Back My Night: Aging and New Vision Loss - Rilegato

Ainlay, Stephen Charles

 
9781032679280: Day Brought Back My Night: Aging and New Vision Loss
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ISBN 10: 103267928X ISBN 13: 9781032679280
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2024

Sinossi

Originally published in 1989, Day Brought Back My Night explores the lives of people who have lost sight in late life as a result of age-related visual disorders. As life-expectancy in western society has increased, the number of people who fall into this group has grown, yet little had been written on this plight. This major study filled the gap in the literature, and will still be of great value to practitioners, scholars, and students in the fields of social gerontology, medicine, social work, and nursing.
Stephen Ainlay surveys the various etiologies of age-related visual disorders and establishes the medical framework of the problem. His primary concern, however, is to understand people’s experience of vision loss, and he makes use of extensive interview data to establish the ways in which people come to terms with their own aging. The stories told here reflect people’s responses to a changing body as well as shifting relationships with friends, family members, medical practitioners, and service providers. They reveal hopes and fears, lost priorities, and new initiatives, relationships that recede and relationships that are newly established. Above all, they comment on the drama that is involved in people’s struggle to find continuity in their lives. In this way, the book is as much an exploration into the problem of identity as it is a study of sensory loss in later life.

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Stephen Ainlay, President Emeritus, Union College, New York, USA

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2024
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
103267928X
ISBN 13 
9781032679280
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
184
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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9781032679433: Day Brought Back My Night: Aging and New Vision Loss

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ISBN 10:  1032679433 ISBN 13:  9781032679433
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2025
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