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Who Are You Calling Old? Negotiating Old Age Identity in the Elderly Consumption Ensemble

Creator:

Barnhart, Michelle and Peñaloza, Lisa

Abstract:

As the elderly population increases, more family, friends, and paid service providers assist them with consumption activities in a group that the authors conceptualize as the elderly consumption ensemble (ECE). Interviews with members of eight ECEs demonstrate consumption in advanced age as a group phenomenon rather than an individual one,...

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, 12 years, Filipino) With paid provider Driving, meals, home and yard, housekeeping, shopping, meds