Overview
- Uniquely explores ageing and the specific needs of older men as they engage with retirement
- Generates new understandings around the issues surrounding ageing and older men such as depression, loneliness suicide and other mental health issues
- Offers an original framework for realising positive solutions to the issues surrounding the marginalisation of older men in the community
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Marginalisation of Older Men: The Lost Boys focuses on the phenomenon of the marginalisation of older men and the impact of gendered ageing as a pathologic disorder leading to suicide ideation, rather than a celebratory state. In this engaging investigation,Deborah Mulligan explains why and how some older men have become marginalised in society, and the effects of this social isolation. The book offers effective and unique methods for researching marginalised groups and individuals to maximise innovativeness, reciprocity and utility for research participants. Mulligan skilfully articulates and communicates the hitherto unheard voices of older males. These voices represent a vital element in the mitigation of loneliness, social isolation and suicide. The lived experience of these individual men and their peers provides vital health information for older men in both contemporary and future society.
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– Brian Hentz, Senior Lecturer, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Book Title: Marginalisation of Older Men
Book Subtitle: The Lost Boys
Authors: Deborah L. Mulligan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8071-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8070-3Published: 05 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8073-4Published: 06 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-8071-0Published: 04 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 122
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Sociology of the Body, Gender Studies