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Leisure in Later Life

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Leisure in Later Life / by Tania Wiseman.
Author:	Wiseman, Tania.
Description:	XXIX, 224 p. 7 illus., 5 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Sociology. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71672-1
ISBN:	9783030716721

Leisure in Later Life
Wiseman, Tania.

Leisure in Later Life [electronic resource] /by Tania Wiseman. - 1st ed. 2021. - XXIX, 224 p. 7 illus., 5 illus. in color.online resource. - Leisure Studies in a Global Era. - Leisure Studies in a Global Era.

Chapter 1 Introduction to a new ageing population -- Chapter 2 Constraints to leisure in a healthy later life -- Chapter 3 Methodology and methods -- Chapter 4: Selecting participants and analysis of correspondence -- Chapter 5: Leisure in later life themes -- Chapter 6: Discussion -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

This book analyses leisure choice as a complex concept, made more complicated in later life than at any other time. The author posits that there are many unanswered questions about the new booming generation of healthy, older people, and this book asks what it is really like to be old at the beginning of the 21st century in the United Kingdom, analysing leisure in older people in the context of the subtle politics of the day to day. Throughout the chapters, the author highlights the often missing depictions of older people who enjoy and enact bold, informed agency as part of their everyday lives. Drawing upon secondary data from the Mass Observation Archive, a social thesis of leisure and ageing emerges that challenges the individualism inherent in active ageing. It is proposed that the idea of ‘active ageing’ creates complex constraints to leisure as people strive to measure up to cultural expectations. The stories in this book advocate for an appreciation and re-evaluation of passive leisure in later life, and the enjoyment and freedom it can bring. The project is therefore useful to students and researchers of leisure studies, gerontology and sociology of ageing. Tania Wiseman is Principal Lecturer in Occupational Therapy at the University of Brighton. Her research interest is in passive leisure in later life, and all the joy it brings.

ISBN: 9783030716721

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-71672-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

551705
Sociology.

LC Class. No.: HM401-1281

Dewey Class. No.: 301

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