Resources for Health in Advanced Age: Older People’s Perspectives

There is much to learn from people living in advanced age about aging well and managing personal and societal challenges. Developing better understanding may help supporters to further facilitate well-being for this rapidly growing cohort. In this presentation, Janine will present on a suite of connected research projects centred around the health experiences and strategies of people living in advanced age, with a particular focus on discursive as well as material and social resources they both draw upon and contribute towards. This work emphasises the importance of the physical, social, and symbolic contexts in which people in advanced age manage their health.

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Dr. Janine Wiles is an Associate Professor in the School of Population Health at The University of Auckland, New Zealand, who is currently visiting at the Trent Centre for Aging & Society. She is a geographer and gerontologist, and teaches in the areas of community development and qualitative research methodologies. Her research encompasses social/health geographies, critical social gerontologies, and community health; and links three themes: care, place, and ageing. She has published numerous articles, book chapters, and reports on topics including ageing in place, older people’s resilience and wellbeing, homes and communities as sites or landscapes of care, and the contextualised experiences of family or ‘lay’ caregivers.