Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life

Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life responds to the growing need for scholarship focused on age, identity and meaning in late life in a time of unprecedented longevity. For the first time in human history, there are more people in the world aged 60 years and over than under age five. In response, empirical gerontological research on how and why we age has seen exponential growth. An unintended consequence of this growth, however, has been an increasing chasm between the need to study age through generalizable data - the "objective" - and the importance of understanding the human experience of growing old.

Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Aging and Later Life bridges this gap. The series creates a more intellectually diversified gerontology through the perspective of the humanities as well as other interpretive, non- empirical approaches that draw from humanities scholarship. Publishing monographs and edited collections, the series represents the most cutting edge research in the areas of humanistic gerontology and aging.

Series editorial board:
Albert Banerjee, St. Thomas University, New Brunswick, Canada
Elizabeth Barry, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Valerie Barnes Lipscomb, University of South Florida, Sarasota Manatee, USA
Thomas Cole, University of Texas Health Science Center, USA
Stephen Katz, Trent University, Ontario, Canada
Paula Morgan, the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
Ira Raja, Delhi University, India
Katsura Sako, Keio University, Japan
Kim Sawchuk, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada