Intimacy and Ageing

New Relationships in Later Life

Torbjörn Bildtgård, Peter Öberg

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Policy Press
01 December 2018

Age groups: the elderly; Sociology: sexual relations

Series: Ageing in a Global Context

To begin new relationships in later life isincreasingly common in large parts of the Western world. This timely bookaddresses the gap in knowledge about late life repartnering and provides acomprehensive map of the changing landscape of late life intimacy.

Part of the Ageing in a Global Context series,the book examines the changing structural conditions of intimacy and ageing in late modernity. How do longer lives, changingnorms and new technologies affect older people's relationship careers, theirattitudes to repartnering and in the formation of new relationships? Whichforms do these new unions take? What does a new intimate relationship offerolder men and women and what are the consequences for social integration? Whatis the role and meaning of sex?

By introducing a gains-perspective the bookchallenges stereotypes of old age as a period of loss and decline. It alsochallenges the image of older people as conservative, and instead presents themas an avant-garde that often experiment with new ways of being.

By: Torbjörn Bildtgård, Peter Öberg
Imprint: Policy Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781447326502
ISBN 10: 1447326504
Series: Ageing in a Global Context
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 December 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; Intimacy and ageing in late modernity; The changing landscape of intimacy in later life; From marriage to alternative union forms; A life of relationships; Attitudes towards new romantic relationships; Initiation and development of new romantic relationships; A new partner as a resource for social support; Consequences for social network and support structures; Sex in an ideology of love; Time as a structuring condition for new intimate relationships in later life; Discussion; Methodological Appendix.

Torbjrn Bildtgrd is Associate Professor in Sociology at Stockholm University, Sweden. Torbjrn has published mainly within two research areas Food and Meal Studies and Social Gerontology. Peter berg is Professor in Social work, at the Faculty of Health and Occupational Studies, University of Gvle, Sweden. He has devoted his academic career to social gerontology and he is currently Editor in Chief for The International Journal of Ageing and Later Life.

Reviews for Intimacy and Ageing: New Relationships in Later Life

At last, an account of ageing intimacy that blows away stereotypes to engage with the complexities. A must-read for academics and those working with older people. Dr Paul Simpson, Edge Hill University