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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Ageing with smartphones in Ireland
    sub title: when life becomes craft
  name:
    name part: Garvey, Pauline
    name part: 1971-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Miller, Daniel
    name part: 1954-
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (265 pages)
  abstract: There are not many books about how people get younger. It doesn't happen very often. But Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland documents a radical change in the experience of ageing.Based on two ethnographies, one within Dublin and the other from the Dublin region, the book shows that people, rather than seeing themselves as old, focus on crafting a new life in retirement. Our research participants apply new ideals of sustainability both to themselves and to their environment. They go for long walks, play bridge, do yoga and keep as healthy as possible. As part of Ireland's mainstream middle class, they may have more time than the young to embrace green ideals and more money to move to energy-efficient homes, throw out household detritus and protect their environment.The smartphone has become integral to this new trajectory. For some it is an intimidating burden linked to being on the wrong side of a new digital divide. But for most, however, it has brought back the extended family and old friends, and helped resolve intergenerational conflicts though facilitating new forms of grandparenting. It has also become central to health issues, whether by Googling information or looking after frail parents. The smartphone enables this sense of getting younger as people download the music of their youth and develop new interests.This is a book about acknowledging late middle age in contemporary Ireland. How do older people in Ireland experience life today?
  table of contents: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Summary of conclusions -- Ireland: a historical and contemporary portrait -- Introduction to Ireland -- Anthropology in Ireland -- The focus on ageing -- Introduction to our fieldsites -- Cuan -- Thornhill -- Field methods -- Ethics and people -- Notes -- 2 Ageing and retirement -- Introduction -- Ageing and frailty: the subjective experience -- Complications: class and invisibility -- Retirement -- Retiring together: couples
  table of contents: Ageing with smartphones -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Everyday life: activities and routines -- Social Prescribing -- The individual's perspective -- Observing activities -- The ukulele group -- The Men's Shed -- Thornhill Strollers -- Craft and coffee -- Filling time -- Crafting routines -- Smartphones and special times -- Conclusion: crafting -- Notes -- 4 Ageing and social life -- Introduction -- Relationships with partners -- Relationships with parents -- Relationships with siblings and wider kin -- Grandparenting -- Friendships and loneliness -- Neighbours -- Conclusion -- Notes
  table of contents: 5 Smartphones and ageing -- Smartphone infrastructure -- Talking about smartphones -- The wider context -- Learning and teaching smartphones -- Smartphone apps -- WhatsApp -- Personalisation -- The Irish smartphone -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Health and care -- Health services, insurance and complementary health -- Responding through wellness -- Age, attitudes and behaviour -- Menopause -- Googling for health information -- Dementia and dying parents -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Downsizing -- Introduction -- Alternatives to residential care -- Not downsizing -- Downsizing
  table of contents: Divestment and decluttering -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 Life purpose -- Death and funerals -- The role of ethics -- Keeping active -- Walking and pilgrimage -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9 Conclusion -- When life becomes craft -- An Irish ethos -- The smartphone -- Becoming younger -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover
  note: Pauline Garvey.
  note: Description based upon print version of record.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-ie---
  subject:
    topic: Smartphones
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Ireland
  subject:
    topic: Aging
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Ireland
  subject:
    topic: Technology and older people
    geographic: Ireland
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
  subject:
    topic: Aging
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Technology and older people
  subject:
    geographic: Ireland
  classification: HQ1064.I73
  classification: 303.4834084609415
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland
    name:
      name part: Garvey, Pauline
    origin info:
      publisher: London : UCL Press,c2021
  identifier: 9781787359697
  identifier: 1787359697
  identifier: 9781787359666
  identifier: 1787359662
  identifier: 1787359689
  identifier: 9781787359680
  identifier: 1787359670
  identifier: 9781787359673
  identifier: 9781787359703
  identifier: 1787359700
  identifier: 22573/ctv19x9mt9 JSTOR
  identifier: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1b0fvgh
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 210508
    record change date: 20220105170853.0
    record identifier: in00004368425
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng