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Why older rural women in Ireland want to work: it's not all about the money
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-11-15)
This paper extends our understanding of employment and gendered rural ageing by examining the latent benefits of paid work for mid-life women in rural Ireland. Existing social gerontology literature deals extensively with ...
What role does rural place play in the lives of mid-life women in Sweden and Ireland?
(MDPI, 2020-11-06)
Rural place is a significant influencer of the ageing and states of well-being experienced
by older women. This paper extends existing knowledge on gendered rural place by examining
its influence on mid-life (45–65 years) ...
Composite measures for assessing multidimensional social exclusion in later life: Conceptual and methodological challenges
(Springer, 2021-01-25)
Although there are a number of approaches to constructing a measure of multidimensional social exclusion in later life, theoretical and methodological challenges exist around the aggregation and weighting of constituent ...
‘In a hospital bed or … out doing Indiana Jones’: older Irish men's negotiations of cultural representations of ageing
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-03-09)
There is a growing body of interdisciplinary literature on the representation and construction of ageing masculinities; however, there is a lack of specific analysis of older men's responses to cultural images of ageing. ...