Final RC11 Programme (including all last-minute changes) at XVIIth ISA World Congress in Gothenburg, Sweden, July 11-17th 2010 NOW AVAILABLE!

 

Monday, 12th July

Session 1. Gender, Ageing and the Body

Monday, 12th July 2010 at 15.30-17.30. (Room: Svenska Massan F4)

Co-ordinators and Chairs: Laura Hurd Clarke (Canada) and Julia Twigg (UK) laura.hurd.clarke@ubc.ca ; J.M.Twigg@kent.ac.uk

Oral Papers:

1. Negotiating the Ageing Body in Rural Malawi
- Emily Freeman (UK)
2. Masculinity and Aging Bodies in the U.S
- Toni Calasanti and Neal King (USA)
3. Ageing, Gender and Sexuality in the Brazilian Society
- Guita Grin Debert (Brazil)
4. Russian Immigrant Women, Fashion and the Negotiation of So-cial Class and Feminine Identity
- Alexandra Korotchenko and Laura Hurd Clarke (Canada)
5. 'Growing Comfortable in Our Own Skins': Transitions in Body Consciousness and Embodiment over the Life Course
- Pam Wakewich (Canada)
6. Age Coded Bodies: When Conceptions of Ageing Become Age Markers
- Clary Krekula (Sweden)

Distributed Papers:

1. Decomposing Masculinity: Aging and Loss of Masculine Body in post-Revolutionary or Iran
- Babak Rahimi (USA)
2. Speaking about the Unspeakable: The Ageing Female Body in “Menopause... let it be!”
- Katarzyna Smyczyńska (Poland)
3. Life Course and Ageing among People with Rare Disorders: “You Got to Have a Good Life While You Can”
- Lisbet Grut, Kirsten Thorsen and Abby Grant (Norway)
4. With This (Disabled) Body
- Cristina Joy Torge (Sweden)

 

Session 2. Cultural representations of the Ageing Body

Monday, 12th July 2010 at 17.45-19.45. (Room: Svenska Massan F4)

Co-ordinators and Chairs: Wendy Martin (UK) and Julia Twigg (UK) wendy.martin@brunel.ac.uk ; J.M.Twigg@kent.ac.uk

Oral Papers:

1. Hold on!: Falling, embodiment and the materiality of old age
- Stephen Katz (Canada)
2. Falling into the fourth age: Frailty and the body drop
- Chris Gilleard; Kevin McKee; Paul Higgs (UK)
3. Medical discourses on and medical doctors' stories about menopause
- Johanna Esseveld (Sweden)
4. Clothing and the embodiment of age
- Julia Twigg (UK)
5. Photographing everyday life: Ageing, bodies, time and space
- Wendy Martin; Veronika Williams (UK)
6. Negotiating otherness: Ageing, the body and self
- Catherine Degnen (UK)

Distributed Papers:

1. Activities and clothing: Representing gender in calendars
- Eileen Fairhurst (UK)
2. Narratives and representations of physical competence in the gym: A comparison of older gym users and instructors
- Emmanuelle Tulle; N Dorrer (UK)
3. Look at Me! A participatory arts project working with older women in the UK to create new & alternative images of ageing
- Lorna Warren (UK)
4. Lustful old chaps and mature women - representations of age-ing bodies in web-based gay communities
- Anna Siverskog (Sweden)
5. Representations of the ageing body in modern Russian culture
- Yaroslave Evseeva (Russia)

 

Informal RC11 Welcome Get Together

Monday, 12th July 2010 at 20.00. (Room: Svenska Massan F4)

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Tuesday, 13th July 2010

Session 3. Care-giving and Care work
Tuesday, 13th July 2010 at 10.45-12.45. (Room: Svenska Massan F4)

Co-ordinator and Chair: Anne Martin-Matthews (Canada) amm@interchange.ubc.ca

Oral Papers:

1. Consequences of being invisible: informal carers in Denmark
- Myra Lewinter (Denmark)
2. Queer lessons in caring: Learning from the experiences of older lesbian, gay and bisexual adults
- Ann Cronin; Andrew King (UK)
3. Carers@Work - Reconciling employment and care for older fam-ily members in Germany, Italy, Poland and the UK
- Andreas Hoff (UK); Andrea Principi (Italy)
4. Home care workers, who cares? The role of job satisfaction and job stress on home care workers' intentions to leave their job - Ann Marron; L O'Connor (Ireland)
5. From nursing home to Green House: Changing contexts and outcomes of elder care in the US
- Crystal Moore and Meika Loe (USA)
6. Migrant care workers’ job satisfaction and carers’ burden: The impact of interpersonal relationships
- Esther Iecovich (Israel)
7. Long term care in private households: status quo in Austria and challenges for the University of Graz as an employer
- Isabella Meier and Margareta Kreimer; (Austria)
8. Paid care work for elderly living in long term institutions
- Analia Soria Batista (Brazil)

Session 4. Worlds of Difference: Qualities of Life of Older People in Developing and Developed Countries (Joint session with RC55: Social Indicators)

Tuesday, 13th July at 15.30-17.30. (Room: Svenska Massan F4)

Co-ordinators and Chairs: Andreas Hoff (RC11, UK) and Valerie Moller (RC55, South Africa) andreas.hoff@ageing.ox.ac.uk ; V.Moller@ru.ac.za

Oral Papers:

1. Sleep and quality of life: The impact of social and contextual factors on older people's sleep and quality of life
- Sara Arber; Susan Venn; Ingrid Eyers; Rebekah Luff (UK)
2. The impact of pension policy on older adults' life satisfaction: an analysis of longitudinal multilevel data
- Esteban Calvo (USA)
3. Well-being of older persons with disability in Europe
- Katrin Gasior; Asghar Zaidi (Austria)
4. Standard of living and subjective perceptions of the material life situation of the elderly in Germany in comparison
- Heinz-Herbert Noll; Stefan Weick (Germany)
5. National indicators for assessing qualities of life for older peo-ple living in developing and developed countries
- Shirley Nuss (USA)
6. Sugar daddies syndrome: Elderly sexual behaviour and implica-tions for the spread of HIV/AIDs in Nigeria
- Elias Olukorede Wahab (Nigeria)

Session 5. Use of Technology and Innovations in Informal Care

Tuesday, 13th July 2010 at 17.45-19.45. (Room: Svenska Massan F4)

Co-ordinator and Chair: Andreas Hoff (UK) andreas.hoff@ageing.ox.ac.uk

Oral Papers:

1. The role of telecare in supporting work and care
- Sue Yeandle (UK)
2. Can lifestyle monitoring support unpaid care? Some ethical considerations
- Alison Bowes, Alison Dawson, David Bell (UK)
3. Technology acceptance and usage in old age
- Harald Künemund; Petra-Karin Okken (Germany)
4. Use of information and communication technology in healthy aging work of older Americans and their carers
- Julia Rozanova; Paul Lawton (USA)
5. Developing learning materials to promote positive interaction with people with dementia: We are all in it together!
- Trish Hafford-Letchfield; Wendy Couchman; Kate Leonard; Tony Leiba; Sandi Woods; Peter Avery; Maxine Webster (UK)
6. RING: TransfeRING supports for caregivers
- Gerardo Zamore; Igone Etxeberria; N Galdona; Elena Urdaneta; JJ Yan-guas; C Bianchi; C Marchisio; C Rivoiro (Spain, Italy)

Distributed Papers:

1. Elderly people's time-use and processes of re-engagement
- Antonio Cristoforetti; Francesca Gennai; Giulia Rodeschini (Italy)
2. Is it effective for national government's policies to maintain quality of care management under the long-term care insurance system?
- Rie Yamanoi (Japan)
3. Caring trajectories and their meanings: dynamics between fam-ily care and extra-family care
- Jose de Sao Jose (Portugal)

Session 6. Challenges facing Researchers in Ageing in 2010

Tuesday 13th July 2010 at 20.00-22.00. (Room: Svenska Massan F4)

Co-ordinator: Susan Feldman (Australia) ; Chair: Sara Arber (UK) S.Arber@surrey.ac.uk

 

Oral Papers:

1. Researching dignity in later life: methodological and ethical challenges
- Kate White; Liz Lloyd (UK)
2. Aging and existential issues; thinking from a Swedish case study on short term stay in late life
- Els-Marie Anbacken (Japan/Sweden)
3. The nexus of sociology, nursing and gerontology in teaching: Addressing challenges facing researchers in ageing
- Carole-Lyne Le Navenec, Sandra Hirst (Canada)
4. Learning to be Pakistani, the female way: issues of identity, trust and recruitment in UK research
- Maria Zubair (UK)
5. Multigenerational bonds: a challenge facing researchers in eld-erly care in 2010-2030
- Hynek Jerabek (Czech Republic)
6. End of life care education: Working with older people to de-velop training programmes for peer educators
- Jane Seymour (UK)
7. A trash-body: the old body from the children's perspective
- Anne Carolina Ramos (Brazil)

Distributed Papers:

1. The genealogy of the ageing body
- Janicke Andersson (Sweden)

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Wednesday, 14th July 2010

Session 7. Ageing Societies and the Welfare State

Wednesday 14th July 2010 at 10.45-12.45. (Room: Svenska Massan F4)

Co-ordinator and Chair: Kathrin Komp (The Netherlands) k.komp@fsw.vu.nl

Oral Papers:

1. The political economy of the third age
- Kathrin Komp (The Netherlands)
2. The welfare state in aging societies: Comparing the produc-tion/protection nexus in Canada and Japan
- Susan McDaniel (Canada)
3. What do ordinary citizens think about the modern welfare state in ageing societies? Mind mapping with German focus group data
- Katrin Prinzen; Achim Goerres (Germany)
4. Welfare citizens or capable consumers? Financial capability and the politics of income in old age
- Debora Price; Lynne Livsey (UK)
5. Support between parents and children and the welfare state
- Christian Deindl; Martina Brandt (Germany)
6. Increasing retirement age in Germany: Are the baby boomers adapting to the changing legal framework?
- Tatjana Mika; Laura Romeu-Gordo; Julia Simonson (Germany)
7. 'I'm not political': An exploration of older people's perception of policy in relation to UK policies: a case for communicative ac-tion?
- Trish Hafford-Letchfield (UK)

Distributed Papers:

1. Welfare system and ageing in Slovenia
- Valentina Hlebec; Ivan Bernik (Slovenia)
2. Older workers in Polish companies - Approaches, strategies and actions of private and public institutions (SHARE and ASPA pro-jects)
- Konrad Turek; Jolanta Perek-Bialas (Poland)

Session 8. Ageism, Structures and Agency

Wednesday 14th July 2010 at 15.30-17.30. (Room: Svenska Massan F4)

Co-ordinators and Chairs: Lars Andersson (Sweden) and Lucie Vidovicova (Czech Republic)
Lars.Andersson@ki.se ; Lucie.Vidovic@seznam.cz

Oral Papers:

1. Ageism, from personal talk to corporate policy
- Neal King; Toni Calasanti (USA)
2. Ageing and abjection
- Chris Gilleard; Paul Higgs (UK)
3. Anti-ageism and the neoliberalisation of old age
- John Macnicol (UK)
4. Scenario development as a strategy to counteract ageism in the working world
- Katja Linnenschmidt (Austria)
5. International anti-ageist policy against national context?
- Katarzyna Kopycka; Reinhold Sackmann (Germany)
6. Suffering, surviving and surpassing in midlife: The cultural poli-tics of midlife gay men’s responses to ageing
- Paul Simpson (UK)

Distributed Papers:

1. The ageist prism among Polish employers - facts and fiction
- Justyna Sypinska (Poland)
2. Cui Bono? A critical analysis of the development of the Irish na-tional quality standards for residential care settings for older peo-ple in Ireland
- Ciara O'Dwyer (Ireland)

Joint Session. Older People’s Contributions to Social Well-being (Joint with RC55: Social Indicators)

Wednesday 14th July 2010 at 15.30-17.30. (Room: Svenska Massan F3)

Co-ordinators and Chairs: Wolfgang Glatzer (RC55, Germany) and Sara Arber (RC11, UK) Glatzer@soz.uni-frankfurt.de; S.Arber@surrey.ac.uk

Oral Papers:

1. "Because, basically the center runs on volunteers": The role of volunteerism in working-class senior citizen's center
- Joyce Weil (USA)
2. A micro and macro perspective on the intermediate effect of geographic proximity on intergenerational support
- Leen Heylens; Dimitri Mortelmans; Kim Boudiny (Belgium)
3. Evolution and the contribution of grandparental child care to working women's fertility decisions: a first test in a Dutch popula-tion
- Fleur Thomese (Netherlands)
4. Money-for-time. Inter-family exchange between generations
- Carin Lennartsson (Sweden); Merril Silverstein (USA); Johan Fritzell (Sweden)
5. Psycho-social and economic contributions of elderly people - A study with reference to Indian families
- Theerthagiri Karunakaran (India)
6. Intergenerational exchange of time and money. Short-term re-ciprocities between parents and their adult children - Thomas Leopald; Marcel Raab (Germany)

Session 9. Older Workers and Retirement: Conflicting Trends

Wednesday 14th July 2010 at 17.45-19.45. (Room: Svenska Massan F4)

Co-ordinator and Chair: John Williamson (USA) jbw@bc.edu

Oral Papers:

1. Retirement and well-being: Examining the characteristics of life course transitions
- Esteban Calvo; Natalia Sarkisian (USA)
2. Pathways into retirement and income trajectories - Germany and Great Britain compared
- Katja Mohring; Tanja Zahle; Peter Krause (Germany)
3. From early intentions to retirement - how well intentions pre-dict actual retirement
- Eila Tuominen; Mervi Talaka (Finland)
4. Is financial literacy pre-requisite for successful preparation for ageing? Some thoughts for welfare state provisions
- Lucie Vidovicova (Czech Republic)
5. The Japanese model of older worker labor force participation: Is it resilient during a global recession
- Masa Higo; John Williamson (USA)
6. Strategies of retirement in post-1989 Poland
- Lukasz Krzyzowski; Janusz Mucha (Poland)

Distributed Papers:

1. Discrimination against the elderly inside and outside the labour market in Latvia
- Anna Stepchenko (Latvia)
2. Are Czech people in their fifties ready to work to an older age?
- Marcela Petrova Kafkova (Czech Republic)
3. Employment of older workers in France: Tomorrow better than today?
- Elena Mashkova (France)
4. Older workers in Portugal - A case study in health sector
- Marianela Ferreira (Portugal)
5. "Late Bloomers" First steps to self-employment in the second phase of life - research on elderly entrepreneurs in Germany
- Annette Franke (Germany)
6. "In general you have to care for yourself" Experiences of ex-clusion from the labour market of older workers after a stroke
- Markus Zimmermann; Johann Behrens; Christiane Schaepe (Germany)

Session 10. RC11 Business Meeting

Wednesday 14th July 2010 at 20.00-21.30. (Room: Svenska Massan F4)

Chair: Sara Arber (UK), President of RC11

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Thursday, 15th July 2010

Integrative Session 08. The Changing Role of Grandparents across Diverse Societies’ (Joint session organised by RC11, RC06, RC53) (Room: Svenska Massan G3)

Thursday 15th July 2010 at 8.30-10.30.

Co-ordinators and Chairs: Sara Arber (RC11, UK), Doris Bühler-Niederberger (RC53, Sociology of Childhood, Germany) and Rudolf Richter (RC06, Family Research, Austria) S.Arber@surrey.ac.uk ; buehler@uni-wuppertal.de ; rudolf.richter@unvie.ac.at

 

Oral Presentations

1. Transformations in the role of grandparents across wel-fare states
- Gunhild Hagestad (Norway)
2. Grandparents caring for grandchildren in contemporary China: Linchpins of the rural family system
- Merril Silverstein (USA)
3. The logic and limits of grandparental childcare assistance: experiences of Chinese immigrants in Canada
- Sun Hsiao-Li Shirley (Singapore)
4. The future and limits of intergenerational solidarities
- Claude Martin (France)
Discussant:
Bernard Nauck (Germany)

Session 11. Grandparenting and Intergenerational Dynamics

Thursday 15th July 2010 at 10.45-12.45. (Room: Svenska Massan F4)

Co-ordinators and Chairs: Virpi Timonen and Ciara O’Dwyer (Ire-land) timonenv@tcd.ie

Oral Papers:

1. Grandmothers at work: Juggling paid and unpaid work over the life course
- Madonna Harrington Meyer (USA)
2. Grandparenthood in Europe: feelings of obligations towards the younger generation
- Corinne Igel (Switzerland)
3. Multiple grandparent-grandchild relations: taking a three gen-eration perspective
- Katharina Mahne; Oliver Huxhold (Germany)
4. Generations beyond families: inter/generational dynamics in personal life
- Jennifer Mason; Stewart Muir; James Nazroo; Venessa May (UK)
5. Grandchild-grandparent socialization
- Alice Delerue (Portugal)
6. An exploratory study on the grandparent-grandchildren rela-tionship in Chinese families in Hong Kong
- Lisanne Ko; Ernest Chui (Hong Kong)

Session 12. Media and Ageing: Representations and Consumption

Thursday 15th July 2010 at 15.30-17.30. (Room: Svenska Massan F4)

Co-ordinator and Chair: Lucie Vidovicova (Czech Republic) Lucie.Vidovic@seznam.cz

Oral Papers:

1. Portrayals of nursing home residents in US national newspa-pers, 1999-2008: (un-) successful aging and disposable lives
- Julia Rozanova; Edward Miller; Terrie Wetle; Vincent Mor (USA)
2. The cinematic constitution of reality of ageing
- Anja Hartung (UK/Germany)
3. Images of older people and ageing in the Czech media
- Renata Sedlakova; Lucie Vidovicova (Czech Republic)
4. Portrayals of elderly in Lithuanian media
- Grazina Rapoliene (Lithuania)
5. Older people and the internet - consumption of the medium in Poland in the context of the EU
- Wojciech Kowalik (Poland)
6. Has beauty no age limit? The case of Dove's advertising aimed at the older consumer
- Karin Lovgren (Sweden)

Distributed Papers:

1. The image of elderly women created in globalized and local media. TV series as a case study
- Malgorzata Rakoczy; Paulina Swiatek (Poland)
2. Ethnicity, culture and migration in elderly care: Swedish daily press coverage on elderly care from 1995-2008
- Sandra Torres; Jonas Lindblom (Sweden)
3. Representing and interpreting contemporary images of wisdom
- Eileen Fairhurst (UK); Ricca Edmonson (Ireland)
4. Older people in Russian TV advertising
- Yaroslave Evseeva (Russia)
5. "Our elderly" and the social construction of older people in the public sphere
- Magnus Nilsson (Sweden)
6. The media and the constitution of age: the case of fashion, or how does Vogue negotiate ageing?
- Julia Twigg (UK)

Session 13. Ethnicity and Gender Studies of Ageing, Old Age and Elderly Care

Thursday 15th July 2010 at 17.45-19.45. (Room: Svenska Massan F4)

Co-ordinator & Chair: Sandra Torres (Sweden) sandra.torres@isv.liu.se

Oral Papers:

1. Ethnicity and gender in later life transitions: Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)
- Jean Gardiner; Andrew Robinson (UK)
2. Who's getting sicker faster among well-functioning older adults?
- Ronica Rooks (USA)
3. Does the poverty of women in childhood and adult ages affect quality of their life in later years?
- R.S.Goyal (India)
4. Care networks of older adults and receipt of family/friend care across ethnic groups in Canada
- Satomi Yoshino (Canada)
5. Understanding of ethnic 'Otherness' in relation to elderly care provision/ recipiency
- Sandra Torres (Sweden)
6. Gender, ethnicity and elderly care: differences and similarities of living old age in Indonesia, Malaysia and Japan
- Ekawati Wahyuni (Indonesia)

Joint Session: Ageing Well and its’ Societal Dterminants in Internatonal Perspective (Joint session with RC10 Participation, Organisational Democracy and Self-Management)

Thursday 15th July 2010, 17.45-19.45. (Room: Handels Aulan. NB. This is in the Handels building, which is a 20 min walk from Svenska Massan, or tram no. 2)

Co-ordinators and Chairs: Julia Rozanova (RC10, USA) and
Andreas Hoff (RC11, UK) Julia_Rozanova@brown.edu ; andreas.hoff@ageing.ox.ac.uk

Oral Papers:

1. Individual satisfaction and organizational constraints on par-ticipation in self-management organizations of older persons - Adriana Fassio (Argentina)
2. Storied Lives: Connecting narrative identities, social engage-ment and the factors linked to eudaimonic happiness in later life - Deidre O'Donnell; Kathleen McTiernan (Ireland)
3. Gender differences in the effect of education on depression in later life
- Barbara Schaan (Germany)
4. The strength when coping with poverty: A qualitative study of the aged poor in Beijing
- Chen Yanyan (China/Hong Kong)
5. Later life dynamics in changing social contexts - impact of neighbourhoods, districts and regions on diversity and inequality in later life: Results from the German ageing survey (DEAS)
- Andreas Motel-Klingebiel; Oliver Huxhold; Clemens Tesch-Roemer (Germany)
6. Active aging: Welfare, dependency, social services in the Span-ish and Catalonian reality. Chc's approaches and perspectives - Oscar del Alamo (Spain)

Distributed papers

1. The ONU's guidelines in the Brazilian public policies
- Glaucia da Silva Destro (Brazil)

 

Friday, 16th July 2010

Session 14. Aging of the Aged: The Case of the Oldest Old (80+)

Friday 16th July 2010 at 10.45-12.45. (Room: Svenska Massan F4)

Co-ordinator: P.K.B. Nayar (India) pkbnayar@yahoo.co.in
Chair: Jacob John Kattakayam (India) jjkattakayam@yahoo.com

Oral Papers:

1. Old age of disease? Stroke in fourth agers
- Katharine Daneski (UK)
2. Longevity – A study among the elderly women of Thiruvanan-thapuram, Kerala, India
- Jacob John Kattakayam (India)
3. Housing with care in Spain: Early findings from a qualitative study
- Gerardo Zamore; Mayte Sancho; Elena del Barrio; Javier Janquas (Spain)
4. Don’t give up, keep going: A longitudinal qualitative study of resilience and wellness in older people with osteoarthritis
- Janet Grime; Jane Richardson; Bie Nio Ong, (UK)
5. Level of Living – simultaneous lack of different resources amongst elderly people in Sweden
- Josephine Heap; Carin Lennartsson; Mats Thorslund (Sweden)

Distributed papers

1. Factors enabling home care for the frail elderly persons living alone – A study of institutions specializing in home medical care in Japan
- Akiko Akiyama; Hiroo Hanabusa; Hiroshi Mikami (Japan)

 

Joint Session: Ageing Populations and Leisure (Joint session with RC13 Sociology of Leisure)

Friday, 16th July2010: 15.30 – 17.30. (Room: Svenska Massan G4)

Coordinators: Ishwar Modi (RC13, India) and Sara Arber (RC11, UK)
Chairs: Sara Arber (RC11, UK) and Francis Lobo (RC13, Australia) S.Arber@surrey.ac.uk ; f.lobo@ecu.edu.au

Oral Papers:

1. Leisure work of the ageing populations: A study of Nagpur city (India)
- B.K. Swain (India)
2. The role of leisure in enhancing the quality of life of the elderly
- Francis Lobo (Australia)
3. External and internal innovation in older adults' tourism
- Galit Nimrod (Israel)
4. Ageing and alcohol: moderate drinking, physical leisure time ac-tivities and beneficial health outcomes
- Karen Jennison (USA)
5. Open-minded elderly women Vs close-minded elderly men: Qualitative research on gender imbalance of elderly educational activities
- Jia Yunzhu (China)
6. Shortage of leisure within the elderly people in Iran: A socio-logical appraisal
- Mohammad Taghi Sheykhi (Iran)
7. Ageing, leisure and well being: A study of elderly in urban set-tings of Dehradun
- Onima Sharma and Archana Pal (India)
8. Leisure in the twilight years: Boon or bane?
- Rashmi Jain (India)
9. Social capital and leisure: Which leisure-related activities make older people feel less lonely?
- Vera Toepoel (Netherlands)
10. Where the sun is setting brightly
- Tara Chand Tikkiwal (India)

Distributed Papers:

1. Time use in retirement
- Paula Jerónimo (Portugal)
2. Leisure patterns of the elderly: The Indian context
- Ranjana Jain (India)

 

Session 15. Differences and Similarities in the Pace and Consequences of Population Aging

Friday 16th July 2010 at 17.45-19.45. (Room: Svenska Massan F4)

Co-ordinator: László Kovács (Japan) laszlo.kovacs.1966@gmail.com
Chair: Kathrin Komp (The Netherlands) k.komp@fsw.vu.nl

Oral Papers:

1. Differences and similarities in the pace and consequences of population ageing in developed and developing countries - Tara Kanitkar; Sharvari Shukla (India)
2. Socio-demographics of the elderly population in Bangladesh: Evidence from a developing country
- Mehedi Hasan Khan (Bangladesh)
3. Aging and development in Latin America
- Elizangela Storelli (USA)
4. Migration, ageing and development in Indonesia
- Ekawati Wahyuni (Indonesia)
5. Trends of population ageing in Russia and Ukraine within European context
- Gayane Safarova (Russia); Sergei Pirozhkov (Ukraine)
6. Understanding retirement in Belarus
- Katsiaryna Padvalkava (UK)
7. Ageing in Tanzania
- Nele Marie Tanschus (Germany)

Distributed Papers:

1. The need for using open method of coordination on pensions in the Balkans
- Merita Xhumari (Albania)

Session 16. Growing Older in Transnational Communities

Friday 16th July 2010 at 20.00-22.00. (Room: Svenska Massan F4)

Co-ordinators and Chairs: Christina Victor, Wendy Martin and Vanessa Burholt (UK) christina.victor@brunel.ac.uk; wendy.martin@brunel.ac.uk ; v.burholt@swansea.ac.uk

Oral Papers:

1. An ethnic lens on age identity: Bridging the gap between iden-tity research in gerontology and migration and ethnic studies - Laura Machat (Sweden)
2. International care workers in England: Practices and identities
- Martin Stevens; Shereen Hussein; Jill Manthorpe (UK)
3. Growing older in Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities living in the UK: families, social networks, space and time
- Christina Victor; Wendy Martin; Maria Zubair; Subrata Saha (UK)
4. Retirement migration and ageing abroad: Transnational net-works, ethnic economies and the health care sector
- Claudia Kaiser (Germany)
5. Gender differences in inter- and intragenerational relationships of older South Asians living in the UK, India and Bangladesh - Vanessa Burholt; Christine Dobbs (UK)

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Saturday, 17th July 2010

Session 17. Older People’s Interest Representations and the Politics of Old Age

Saturday 17th July 2010 at 13.45-15.45. (Room: Svenska Massan F4)

Co-ordinators and Chairs: Martha Doyle and Virpi Timonen (Ire-land) martha.doyle@tcd.ie ; timonenv@tcd.ie

Oral Papers:

1. Older people, place and participation
- Marian Barnes, Elizabeth Harrison (UK)
2. An ethnographic description and analysis of Scottish dementia working group: "We're a group"
- Ruth Bartlett (UK)
3. Civic engagement and older adults: How effective are older people's fora?
- Patrick Kerins; Ann Marron (Ireland)
4. Advocacies for frail and cognitively impaired older people in Europe
- Regina Kőller; Dietrich Engels (Germany)
5. Political participation of senior representants in elderly care policies in East and West Germany - a four cases comparison - Ralf Och (Germany)
6. The fight to die: older people and death activism
- Naomi Richards (UK)

Distributed Papers:

1. The working population's attitudes towards the elderly in an ageing welfare state: solidarity - conflict - ambivalence? - Katrin Prinzen (Germany)
2. From early to progressive exit: new policies... And the new conduct of the self
- Moulaert Thibauld (Belgium)

 

Sara Arber, on behalf of the RC11 Programme Committee for the ISA World Congress, 23/06/2010