Journal of Aging Studies articles from March 1999

Journal of Aging Studies archives from March 1999

INTRODUCTION: Narrative Gerontology.
March 22, 1999... The term "narrative gerontology" (Kenyon, Ruth, and Mader 1999; Ruth and Kenyon 1996) is intended as a heuristic for the study of aging. Its purpose, as we see it, is to emphasize and coordinate a particular set of insights about both the aging...

NARRATIVES OF AGING.
March 22, 1999... As so often happens with psychologists, it was literary work that gave me my first inkling of the "biological texture" of aging. It was a "novel" by Rainer Maria Rilke that set me off: The Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rilke 1984). The...

NARRATIVE INTELLIGENCE AND THE NOVELTY OF OUR LIVES.
March 22, 1999... ABSTRACT: Essential to making meaning across the lifespan, I argue, is narrative intelligence. After sketching the dynamics of such intelligence, I offer some speculations on how our experience and expression of it may change with advancing...

WORLD VIEWS AND NARRATIVE GERONTOLOGY: Situating Reminiscence Behavior within a Lifespan Perspective.
March 22, 1999... ABSTRACT: The field of gerontology has been described as data rich but theory poor. The same can be said for the subarea of reminiscence research. Little attention has been paid to the superordinate metamodels which frame reminiscence work....

NARRATIVES OF IDENTITY AMONG FORMER PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALLERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.
March 22, 1999... ABSTRACT: This article considers the part that narrative plays in the processes of identity construction and reconstruction by focusing on the experience of one occupational group, professional footballers in the United Kingdom. From a...

NO REGRETS: Widows' Stories About the Last Days of Their Husbands' Lives.
March 22, 1999... ABSTRACT: This article looks at the stories older women, who were participants in a study of older women's experiences of widowhood, told about their husbands' deaths. The findings are based on in-depth, narrative interviews with 28 women over...

NARRATIVES OF PAIN IN LATER LIFE AND CONVENTIONS OF STORYTELLING.
March 22, 1999... ABSTRACT: In this article, I discuss conventions of storytelling by drawing on two accounts of the experience of chronic pain that challenged my hearing.(1) To engage with these accounts and to reflect on my hearing/reading practices I use...

NURSES' NARRATIONS AND REFLECTIONS ABOUT CARING FOR PATIENTS WITH SEVERE DEMENTIA AS REVEALED IN SYSTEMATIC CLINICAL SUPERVISION SESSIONS.
March 22, 1999... ABSTRACT: This study explored nurses' narrations about and reflections on caring for patients with severe dementia and their interpretation of the meaning for patients as revealed in clinical supervision sessions. The encounters between patient...

INTEGRATING PERSONAL REFLECTION AND GROUP-BASED ENACTMENTS.
March 22, 1999... ABSTRACT: This article introduces and describes the Guided Autobiography in the context of group psychodrama. The former is seen as a tool for self-exploration and examination and the latter is seen as a method for making this internal...