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Título del libro: Aging Research - Methodological Issues
Título del capítulo: Qualitative research

Autores UNAM:
TERESA JUAREZ CEDILLO; SERGIO SANCHEZ GARCIA; MARIA DEL CARMEN GARCIA PEÑA;
Autores externos:

Idioma:
Inglés
Año de publicación:
2015
Palabras clave:

Psychogerontology; Qualitative research; Social gerontology


Resumen:

Qualitative studies have focused on giving an account of a broad range of topics on aging using strategies such as: Casestudies, of a single subject, focus groups and historical/comparative approaches. Among the topics this research has touched on are: The demography of aging, the relationship between the process of modernization and aging, the stratifi cation of age, patrilineal families, formal/informal arrangements for living together, support systems, care of old people who live alone, the health/illness process, health care, disability, long-term care and death.There are also studies that focus on evaluating the impact on changes in the family, life satisfaction for retired people and their life conditions, care of old people, and reform of the retirement system and community services for people of advancedage. With this methodological proposal we try to increase the amount of information about age and aging to develop an integral and complete understanding of the context, while at the same time recognizing the presence of interdisciplinary elements that imply, among other things, values and the part they play in determining individual and collective circumstances of the people in this age group. In this chapterwe approach qualitative research in the contextof research on age and aging, with a proposal that takes elements from the theory of science in anthological, epistemologicalandmethodological areas, and extracting those fundamental concepts to provide better understanding of the topic. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.


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