Bearing the burdens we (don't tend to) bare: independence as ‘one more opportunity for me to fail’
The burdens of older life, during what Peter Laslett has called the fourth-age, exaggerate feelings of fear and desire while resourcing despair. Some such burdens are borne from human corporeality. Others are socially constructed and afflict older persons further. A typology of burdens is introduced...
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Springer Nature
2021
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