Narratives and self-identity in later life. Two rural American older women

Journal of Aging Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 401-413

  Shenk, Dena ^a   Davis, Boyd ^a   Peacock, James R ^a   Moore, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dementia; Lifecourse; Older women; Rural aging

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMENTIA; FAMILY; FEMALE; FEMALE WORKER; GENDER; HUMAN; LIFE HISTORY; MEMORY; RELIGION; RURAL AREA; SELF CONCEPT; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0036838719     PISSN: 08904065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0890-4065(02)00073-7     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Atchley, R. C. (1989). A continuity theory of normal aging. Gerontologist, 29, 183-190.
2. Beaver, P. (1986). Rural community in the Appalachian South. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press (reprinted 1992).
3. Brandstadter, J., & Greve, W. (1994). The aging self: stabilizing and protective processes. Developmental Review, 14, 52-80.
4. Brandstadter, J., Werner, D., & Greve, W. (1993). Adaptive resources of the aging self: outlines of an emergent perspective. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 16(2), 323-349.
5. Burr, V., & Butt, T. (2000). Psychological distress and postmodern thought. In D. Fee (Ed.), Pathology and the Postmodern: Mental Illness as Discourse and Experience (pp. 116-140). London: Sage.
6. Cohen-Mansfield, J., Golander, H., & Arnheim, G. (2000). Self-identity in older person suffering from dementia: preliminary results. Social Science and Medicine, 51, 381-394.
7. Deppen-Wood, M., Luborsky, M. R., & Scheer, J. (1997). Aging, disability and ethnicity: an African American woman's story. In J. Sokolovsky (Ed.), The cultural context of aging: worldwide perspectives (2nd ed.) (pp. 443-451). Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey.
8. Dorfman, L. T., & Mertens, C. E. (1990). Kin relations in retired men and women. Family Relations, 39, 166-173.
9. Fairbanks, C. (1986). Prairie women: image in American and Canadian fiction. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press.
10. Folkstein, M. F., Folstein, S. E., & McHugh, P. R. (1975). 'Mini-mental state': a practice method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 12, 189-198.
11. Georgakopoulou, A., & Goutsas, D. (1997). Discourse analysis: an introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press.
12. Goffman, E. (1959). The presentation of self in everyday life. Garden City, NY: Anchor.
13. Goffman, E. (1981). Forms of talk. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
14. Golander, H., & Raz, A. E. (1996). The mask of dementia: images of 'demented residents' in a nursing ward. Ageing and Society, 16, 269-285.
15. Groger, L. (1992). Tied to each other through ties to the land: informal support of black elders in a Southern U.S. Community. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 7, 205-220.
16. Johnstone, B. (1990). Stories, community, and place: narratives from Middle America. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press.
17. Kaufman, S. (1986). The ageless self: sources of meaning in later life. New York: Meridian.
18. Kitwood, T. (1990). The dialectics of dementia: with particular reference to Alzheimer's disease. Ageing and Society, 10, 177-196.
19. Kitwood, T. (1993). Towards a theory of dementia care: the interpersonal process. Ageing and Society, 13, 51-67.
20. Kitwood, T. (1995). Positive long-term changes in dementia: some preliminary observations. Journal of Mental Health, 4, 133-144.
21. Kitwood, T. (1997). Dementia reconsidered: the person comes first. Buckingham: Open Univ. Press.
22. Kitwood, T., & Benson, S. (Eds.) (1995). The new culture of dementia care. London: Hawker.
23. Kitwood, T., & Bredin, K. (1992a). A new approach to the evaluation of dementia care. Journal of Advances in Health and Nursing Care, 1(5), 41-60.
24. Kitwood, T., & Bredin, K. (1992b). Towards a theory of dementia care: personhood and well-being. Ageing and Society, 12, 269-287.
25. Kivett, V. R. (1988). Aging in a rural place: the elusive source of well-being. Journal of Rural Studies, 4, 132-1325.
26. McCulloch, B. J. (1998). Introduction. Journal of Women and Aging, 10, 1-5.
27. McCulloch, B. J., & Kivett, V. R. (1998). Older rural women: aging in historical and current contexts. In R. T. Coward, & J. A. Krout (Eds.), Aging in rural settings (pp. 149-166). New York: Springer.
28. Motz, M. F. (1987). Folk expression of time and place: nineteenth-century midwestern rural diaries. Journal of American Folklore, 100, 131-147.
29. Murphy, R., Scheer, J., Murphy, Y., & Mack, R. (1988). Physical disability and social liminality: a study of the rituals of adversity. Social Science and Medicine, 26, 235-242.
30. Sabat, S. R., & Harre, R. (1992). The construction and deconstruction of self in Alzheimer's disease. Ageing and Society, 12, 443-461.
31. Shenk, D. (1998). Someone to lend a helping hand: women growing old in rural America. Newark, NJ: Gordon and Breach.
32. Shenk, D., & Christiansen, K. (1997). Social support systems of rural older women: a comparison of the U.S., Denmark. In J. Sokolovsky (Ed.), The cultural context of aging: worldwide perspectives (2nd ed.) (pp. 331-349). Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey.
33. Solomon, P., Hirschoff, A., Kelly, B., Relin, M., Brush, M., DeVeaux, R., & Pendlebury, W. (1998). A 7-minute neurocognitive screening battery highly sensitive to Alzheimer's disease. Archives of Neurology, 55, 349-355.
34. Stratton, J. L. (1981). Pioneer women. New York: Simon and Schuster.