2021/02/17 ケルトンpodcast Downsizing: David Ekerdt
https://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/best-new-ideas-in-money/id1587222768?i=1000551366304
2:00~
Downsizing: Confronting Our Possessions in Later Life (English Edition) Kindle版
Downsizing the Material Convoy – David Ekerdt
2020/10/01
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Best New Ideas in Money: Need to declutter? Try Swedish death cleaning
2022/02/17
2021/02/17 ケルトンpodcast Jeremy Olshanさんのツイート
2:00~
Downsizing: Confronting Our Possessions in Later Life (English Edition) Kindle版
David Ekerdt (著)
2020
As life unfolds, things tend to accumulate. When older adults undergo health, residential, and marital changes, they will face a reckoning with their lifelong store of possessions—special, ordinary, and forgotten. Such a predicament now confronts tens of millions of Americans as the Baby Boom cohort passes into retirement and beyond. Despite what a thriving industry of clutter manuals tells us, for most older adults, downsizing is no simple task.
Drawing on in-depth interviews with recent movers in over a hundred diverse U.S. households, David Ekerdt analyzes the downsizing process and what it says about the meaning and management of possessions. He details how households approach and accomplish downsizing, exploring the decision-making process and the effectiveness of different strategies. From an expert gerontological perspective, he considers the cognitive, physical, emotional, and social tasks that the process entails and the role of factors such as gender and class on the divestment of things. Ekerdt finds that despite the fatigue and emotional challenges people encounter, afterward they report satisfaction in having completed a downsizing and feel empowerment on the other side of the task. Offering an empathetic and practical look at one of life’s major transitions, Downsizing brings forward the voices of elders so that older adults, their families and friends, and practitioners working with older clients can understand and benefit from their experience.
Drawing on in-depth interviews with recent movers in over a hundred diverse U.S. households, David Ekerdt analyzes the downsizing process and what it says about the meaning and management of possessions. He details how households approach and accomplish downsizing, exploring the decision-making process and the effectiveness of different strategies. From an expert gerontological perspective, he considers the cognitive, physical, emotional, and social tasks that the process entails and the role of factors such as gender and class on the divestment of things. Ekerdt finds that despite the fatigue and emotional challenges people encounter, afterward they report satisfaction in having completed a downsizing and feel empowerment on the other side of the task. Offering an empathetic and practical look at one of life’s major transitions, Downsizing brings forward the voices of elders so that older adults, their families and friends, and practitioners working with older clients can understand and benefit from their experience.
人生を歩んでいると、どうしてもモノが溜まってしまう。高齢者は、健康状態や住環境、夫婦関係などが変化したとき、生涯にわたって蓄積してきた特別なもの、普通のもの、そして忘れ去られたものとの決別に直面することになる。ベビーブーム世代が定年退職を迎え、その後、何千万人ものアメリカ人がこのような苦境に立たされている。しかし、高齢者にとって、ダウンサイジングは簡単な作業ではありません。
100以上の多様な米国の世帯で最近の引っ越しとの詳細なインタビューを描くと、デビッドEkerdtは、ダウンサイジングのプロセスとそれが財産の意味と管理について何を言うかを分析します。また、各世帯がどのようにダウンサイジングに取り組み、達成したのか、その意思決定の過程や様々な戦略の有効性についても詳しく解説しています。また、老年学の専門的見地から、このプロセスがもたらす認知的、身体的、感情的、社会的なタスクや、モノを処分する際にジェンダーや階級といった要因が果たす役割についても考察しています。エカードは、人々が疲労や感情的な問題に直面するにもかかわらず、その後、ダウンサイジングを完了したことに満足し、課題の反対側に力を感じていることを発見しています。本書は、人生の大きな転機について共感的かつ実践的に考察し、高齢者、その家族、友人、そして高齢者のクライアントに関わる専門家が彼らの経験を理解し、そこから利益を得られるように、高齢者の声を前面に押し出しています。
商品の説明
レビュー
Downsizing is a good read that advances the notion that the life course within social gerontology needs to take a material turn. It is hard to imagine a reader who could not relate to this book.--Renée Beard, College of the Holy Cross
Downsizing is a must-read; chock-full of wisdom gleaned from interviews with hundreds of older adults who have gifted, donated, or sold their "stuff" before relocating to a smaller home. Ekerdt's masterful writing poignantly reveals why parting with cherished possessions is such a meaningful life transition.--Deborah Carr, author of Golden Years? Social Inequality in Later Life
A fascinating and humane book that speaks to all of us through its exploration of our relationship with material possessions and the paradoxes they present as we grow older. It offers an original and groundbreaking analysis that addresses the materiality of later years in an accessible and beautifully written way.--Julia Twigg, University of Kent
With Downsizing, Ekerdt fills a significant gap in our understanding of how elders think about their lifelong accumulation of dwelling possessions and their willingness and strategies to let go of their material worlds. This book should be on the reading lists of all senior care professionals seeking in-depth understanding of what aging in the right place really means to today's seniors.--Stephen M. Golant, author of Aging in the Right Place
With sociological tools and gerontological insight, David Ekerdt tackles the vexing challenge of household downsizing. Through a thoughtful mixed-methods analysis, he explains how we accumulate and deal with our material convoy--the belongings we acquire--as we age. This book will resonate with anyone who has ever wondered why they have so much stuff and what they are going to do with it. --Janet Wilmoth, coeditor of Gerontology: Perspectives and Issues --このテキストは、paperback版に関連付けられています。
Downsizing is a must-read; chock-full of wisdom gleaned from interviews with hundreds of older adults who have gifted, donated, or sold their "stuff" before relocating to a smaller home. Ekerdt's masterful writing poignantly reveals why parting with cherished possessions is such a meaningful life transition.--Deborah Carr, author of Golden Years? Social Inequality in Later Life
A fascinating and humane book that speaks to all of us through its exploration of our relationship with material possessions and the paradoxes they present as we grow older. It offers an original and groundbreaking analysis that addresses the materiality of later years in an accessible and beautifully written way.--Julia Twigg, University of Kent
With Downsizing, Ekerdt fills a significant gap in our understanding of how elders think about their lifelong accumulation of dwelling possessions and their willingness and strategies to let go of their material worlds. This book should be on the reading lists of all senior care professionals seeking in-depth understanding of what aging in the right place really means to today's seniors.--Stephen M. Golant, author of Aging in the Right Place
With sociological tools and gerontological insight, David Ekerdt tackles the vexing challenge of household downsizing. Through a thoughtful mixed-methods analysis, he explains how we accumulate and deal with our material convoy--the belongings we acquire--as we age. This book will resonate with anyone who has ever wondered why they have so much stuff and what they are going to do with it. --Janet Wilmoth, coeditor of Gerontology: Perspectives and Issues --このテキストは、paperback版に関連付けられています。
著者について
David Ekerdt is professor of sociology and gerontology at the University of Kansas. He is the editor in chief of the <i>Encyclopedia of Aging</i> (2002) and a coeditor of <i>Consumption and Generational Change: The Rise of Consumer Lifestyles</i> (2009), among other publications. In 2018, he served as president of the Gerontological Society of America. --このテキストは、paperback版に関連付けられています。
登録情報
- ASIN : B07Z1D3H4R
- 出版社 : Columbia University Press (2020/6/16)
- 発売日 : 2020/6/16
- 言語 : 英語
商品の説明
レビュー
ダウンサイジング』は、社会的老年学におけるライフコースが物質的に転換する必要があるという考え方を推し進めた良書である。本書に共感できない読者はいないはずだ--レネ・ビアード（ホーリークロス大学
ダウンサイジングは必読の書である。狭い家に引っ越す前に「物」を贈ったり、寄付したり、売ったりした何百人もの高齢者へのインタビューから得られた知恵が詰まっている。Ekerdtの見事な文章は、大切な財産と別れることがなぜそのような意味のある人生の移行であるかを痛烈に明らかにする。 --Deborah Carr, author of Golden Years? その後の人生における社会的不平等
この魅力的で人間味のある本は、私たちと物質的な所有物との関係や、私たちが年をとるにつれてそれらがもたらす逆説を探求することによって、私たちすべてに語りかけるものである。独創的かつ画期的な分析で、高齢者の物質的な問題をわかりやすく、美しい文章で描いている。
エカードは、ダウンサイジングによって、高齢者が生涯にわたって蓄積してきた住居の所有物についてどのように考えているか、また物質世界を手放す意思と戦略について、我々の理解における重要なギャップを埋めている。本書は、今日の高齢者にとっての「適材適所」の意味を深く理解しようとするすべての高齢者ケア専門家の読書リストとなるべきものである。
With sociological tools and gerontological insight, David Ekerdt tackles the vexing challenge of household downsizing. Through a thoughtful mixed-methods analysis, he explains how we accumulate and deal with our material convoy--the belongings we acquire--as we age. This book will resonate with anyone who has ever wondered why they have so much stuff and what they are going to do with it. --Janet Wilmoth, coeditor of Gerontology: Perspectives and Issues --このテキストは、paperback版に関連付けられています。
著者について
David Ekerdt is professor of sociology and gerontology at the University of Kansas. He is the editor in chief of the <i>Encyclopedia of Aging</i> (2002) and a coeditor of <i>Consumption and Generational Change: The Rise of Consumer Lifestyles</i> (2009), among other publications. In 2018, he served as president of the Gerontological Society of America. --このテキストは、paperback版に関連付けられています。
登録情報
ASIN : B07Z1D3H4R
出版社 : コロンビア大学出版局 (2020/6/16)
発売日：2020/6/16
言語 : 英語
0 件のコメント:
コメントを投稿