Episode 6: Sex, Tech, and the Meaning of Aging, mostly tech When you think of tech for older adults, what comes to mind? In this episode, learn how what you pictured says as much about the world you live in and attitudes towards aging as it does about how technology might create better lives for […]
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Episode 5: Sex, Tech, and the Meaning of Aging, mostly sex In this episode: Would you rather have the sex you had when you were 18, or still enjoy sex at 80? How did Viagra change the meaning of aging? Learn about andropause, clitoral insufficiency syndrome, and other maladies made up to market pills and make people
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Episode 4: Aging for Mortals In this episode: What if we started from the knowledge that, no matter what, we will die? And that if we’re lucky, we’ll grow old first? How would that change how we live? How would that change our politics? Featuring Albert Banerjee (NBHRF Chair in Community Health and Aging and Assistant Professor
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Episode 3: Putting Age in its Place In this episode, putting age in its place, with the help of literature and the imagination. Featuring Ulla Kriebernegg (Full Professor and Director of CIRAC, University of Graz, Austria) talking with host Sally Chivers about: how space and place change who we are as we age nursing home escape
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“With Friends Like These”: Unpacking Panicked Metaphors for Population Ageing Date: July 1, 2021 Published in: Societies MDPI Available here for free Age studies scholars have long noted problems with using a tsunami metaphor to describe population ageing. Age-friendly offers a new way to respond to an increase in older adults. Though critical gerontologists identify
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Archived Academic Articles 'Call Security!’: Locks, Risk, Autonomy, and Privacy in Long-Term Residential Care. Ageing International. 1 Jun. 2017. 1-19. DOI 10.1007/s12126-017-9289-3 (co-author, 20%: I participated in research, data collection, data analysis, and writing).See more Gender Regimes in Ontario Nursing Homes: organization, daily work and bodies. Canadian Journal on Aging/ La revue canadienne du vieillissement. 36.2
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Archived Book Chapters Alzheimer’s, Age Panic, Neuroscience: Media Discourses of Dementia and Care. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Peer reviewed reference article. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.765. (co-author, 40%: I conducted research, drafted, revised, and worked together to finalize for publication).See more Unsettling Activisms: Critical Interventions on Aging, Gender, and Social Change. Introduction
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How does cinema represent older age? Date: 2014 Interview is in English with Spanish subtitles The Instituto Cultura y Sociedad, Universidad de Navarra, Spain interview
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Hybrid course at Trent University, Winter 2022 ENGL 4601H Critical Approaches to Literature: Crip Theory How does literature contribute to disability justice? What does it mean to “crip” lit? Literary scholars have reclaimed the term “crip” to explore overlaps between queer and disability cultures in neoliberal contexts. This course explores disability approaches to literature in
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Online course at Trent University, Fall 2021 GESO 2002H Health Humanities As COVID-19 crept across continents, frontline health professionals used Facebook to share tips on opening airways in the absence of ventilators, put together TikTok dance videos, performed choral arrangements via zoom, and tweeted their agony over seemingly impossible situational ethics. Members of the public
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