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Culture in the Act of Caring: Bringing Geropsychology, other gerosciences, and Cultural Psychology together
Boll, Thomas; Ferring, Dieter; Valsiner, Jaan
2018In Boll, Thomas; Ferring, Dieter; Valsiner, Jaan (Eds.) Cultures of care in aging
 

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Keywords :
elder care; long term care; interdisciplinary research; life span developmental psychology; geropsychology; gerosciences; cultural psychology; Dialogical Self Theory; Theory of Social Representations; semiotic mediation; sociocultural factors
Abstract :
[en] In the introduction of a multidisciplinary book on the role of culture in elder care the editors set the stage for a substantive integration of contributions from geropsychology, other gerosciences, and cultural psychology. The authors present arguments for a life-span developmental perspective on care for the elderly and extend this to geropsychology as subsection of life-span developmental psychology. They further emphasize that these disciplines consider to some extent the role of cultural and other contextual factors and that other gerosciences specialized on historical, political, health-and nursing-related aspects of elder care can further supplement this effort. Then three major streams of cultural psychology are mentioned which are particularly relevant to topics of caring: Dialogical Self Theory, Theory of Social Representations, and Cultural Psychology of Semiotic Dynamics. The authors conclude that an increasing population aging and growing gaps between demand and supply of care create a serious practical need for an integration of geropsychology, other gerosciences, and cultural psychologies to achieve a better understanding of the individual, interpersonal, and macro social processes involved in elder care.
Research center :
Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE) > Institute for Research on Generations and Family: Research Group on Aging and Life Span Development
Disciplines :
Social & behavioral sciences, psychology: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Treatment & clinical psychology
Author, co-author :
Boll, Thomas ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE)
Ferring, Dieter ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE)
Valsiner, Jaan;  University of Aalborg > Department of Communication and Psychology > Niels Bohr Professorship of Cultural Psychology ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit on Social and Individual Development (INSIDE) > Invited professor
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
Culture in the Act of Caring: Bringing Geropsychology, other gerosciences, and Cultural Psychology together
Publication date :
2018
Main work title :
Cultures of care in aging
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Publisher :
Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, NC, United States
ISBN/EAN :
978-1-64113-137-7
Collection name :
Advances in Cultural Psychology, Volume 39
Pages :
xiii-xx
Focus Area :
Sustainable Development
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