Elana D. Buch
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View article: EXPLORING AI ELDERS’ CULTURAL PERCEPTIONS OF DISASTERS AND THE ROLE OF GENERATIVITY IN PREPARING FUTURE GENERATIONS
EXPLORING AI ELDERS’ CULTURAL PERCEPTIONS OF DISASTERS AND THE ROLE OF GENERATIVITY IN PREPARING FUTURE GENERATIONS Open
Natural and man-made disasters have a great impact on human health, especially for AI Elders. As keepers of cultural and community knowledge, AIAN Elders also serve as guides on how to best support their communities. This study focuses on …
View article: Beyond the evaluative lens: Contextual unpredictabilities of care
Beyond the evaluative lens: Contextual unpredictabilities of care Open
View article: Anthropology of Aging and Care
Anthropology of Aging and Care Open
In concert with lengthening life spans, emerging forms of care in later life reflect complex and diverse social changes. Embracing a polysemic understanding of care as simultaneously resource and relational practice, this review works acro…
View article: Postponing Passage: Doorways, Distinctions, and the Thresholds of Personhood among Older Chicagoans
Postponing Passage: Doorways, Distinctions, and the Thresholds of Personhood among Older Chicagoans Open
This article analyzes the quotidian ways that older Chicagoans remade and traversed physical boundaries between their homes and the city beyond. In so doing, it explores how changing engagements with the environment impact social personhoo…