Intimacy and Ageing : New Relationships in Later Life. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Intimacy and Ageing : New Relationships in Later Life

As people live longer around the world, remaining healthy into old age, the phenomenon of new intimate relationships in later life is rapidly growing. This book, part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, looks closely at how these relationships have developed within the current cohort of elderly, with particular attention to the ways in which new relationships at older ages are simultaneously rooted in older cultures of intimacy and partake in changes in social relations and behavior that have emerged more recently. What do new intimate relationships offer older men and women, and what do they expect or hope for from them?

Torbjörn Bildtgård is associate professor of sociology at Stockholm University, Sweden. Peter Öberg is associate professor of sociology in the Faculty of Health and Occupational Studies at the University of Gävle, Sweden.