Researching Later Life and Ageing

1. Introduction

1. Introduction
Miranda Leontowitsch

Part I. Research Agendas

2. Later Life as an Arena of Change
Paul Higgs

3. Researching the Body and Embodiment in Later Life
Laura Hurd Clarke

4. Reconceptualising Later Life: Using Qualitative Methods to Refine Understanding of New Ageing Populations
Karen Lowton

Part II. Under-Researched Ageing Populations

5. Doing Pakistani Ethnicity the Female Way: Issues of Identity, Trust and Recruitment when Researching Older Pakistani Muslims in the UK
Maria Zubair, Wendy Martin, Christina Victor

6. Piecing Together Experiences of Older People with Intellectual Disability
Christine Bigby

7. Interviewing Older Men
Miranda Leontowitsch

Part III. Old and New Qualitative Methods

8. Using Focus Groups for Researching End-of-Life Care Issues with Older People
Jane Seymour

9. Using Online Methods to Interview Older Adults about Their Romantic and Sexual Relationships
Sue Malta

10. Growing Old for Real: Women, Image and Identity
Mary MacMaster

11. Afterword: Issues, Agendas and Modes of Engagement
Barbara L. Marshall

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Social Policy, Aging, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Sociology, general