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• Textagingretirement

  The retirement process: Making the person and cultural meanings malleable

  New retirees engaged in reorganization of self and social identity by work in special projects involving physical labor to demolish and rebuild backyards and household interiors.
• Textagingbiomedicine...1 more

  Narratives of elder parental death: A structural and cultural analysis

  Reports on middle-aged daughters' perceptions of the experience of parental death.
• Textagingchronic illness...1 more

  Managing an uncertain illness trajectory in old age: Patients' and physicians' views of stroke

  Examines illness trajectories from two vantage points, that of older persons who have had a stroke and that of physicians who care for stroke patients.
• TextagingAlzheimer's disease...1 more

  Struggling over subjectivity: Debates about the "self" and Alzheimer disease

  A "loss of self" is implicit in the current Alzheimer's construct, and it has been argued that, consequently, the subjective experience of being and becoming old has become increasingly distressing.