An embodied intergenerational pedagogy sheds light on the possibilities of bringing together diverse LGBTQ+ cohorts to strengthen our sense of value and inclusion within a history, lineage, and community.
Aging
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Care workers exercise agency to dismiss prejudicial attitudes toward their work and meet the care needs of an aging population.
In a transnational context, co-residence and touch are not possible due to the geographic distance among family members. Instead, calling has become an elder care practice: sharing everydayness on the phone by sharing the details of one’s daily life is a way of enacting co-presence at a distance, not only as a feeling, but as a concrete practice that involves parents, their children, and phones.
At a recent government-sponsored dance competition for retirees in Chengdu, the capital of China’s Sichuan province, more than 20 groups of retired women took to the stage to perform a dance routine set to Kangding Qingge, a Chinese pop song with lyrics extolling the romance of the Tibetan grasslands.
Last May, I retired after 44 years as a member of the Kent State University faculty. I still felt energetic and committed to my discipline and university, and I continued to find fulfillment in my research, writing, and interaction with students. I was left with a question faced by most of us when we reach our 70s: what do I do now? My answer is that there is life after retirement.