An essential corrective to more static views of older age, the life course perspective views later life as the product of a life already lived. Here, aging is shaped by social, financial, and experiential resources amassed in earlier years which are themselves influenced by social context and historical events that unfold over the course of individual and collective lives. Drawing on past and current research, this talk explores how life course theory can enrich other approaches to studying lesbian and gay aging and aging with HIV, both of which exemplify the later-life impacts of intersections between agency, biography, the institutionalised life course, and social change.
Dr. Dana Rosenfeld is a medical sociologist and social gerontologist with research interests in aging and the life course, chronic illness and disability, gender and sexuality, and self and identity. After receiving her Masters and PhD degrees in Sociology from UCLA, Dana was an NIMH Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the University of Kentucky’s Department of Behavioural Science before becoming Assistant Professor in Sociology at Colorado College, Lecturer at Royal Holloway University of London’s Department of Health and Social Care, Senior Lecturer and Reader at Keele University, where she founded and was Director of the Keele Centre for Ageing Research, and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Westminster. Dana has published widely on lesbian and gay aging, the lived experience of illness and disability, and ageing with HIV. She was lead editor of Medicalized Masculinities, the first book to question and critique the construction of masculinity as a health risk, and sole-authored the first book to approach lesbian and gay ageing through theoretical frames (The Changing of the Guard: Lesbian and Gay Elders, Identity, and Social Change).
Dana was Principal Investigator on the HIV and Later Life (HALL) project, funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research and Medical Research Council’s Life-long Health and Wellbeing Cross-Council Programme, and Co-Investigator on an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded series of seminars on HIV communities. Her HIV-related research has also been funded by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust. She serves on the editorial boards of Social Theory and Health and the Journal of Aging Studies, and on the advisory board of George House Trust’s Ageing Well programme.
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An essential corrective to more static views of older age, the life course perspective views later life as the product of a life already lived. Here, aging is shaped by social, financial, and experiential resources amassed in earlier years which are themselves influenced by social context and historical events that unfold over the course of individual and collective lives. Drawing on past and current research, this talk explores how life course theory can enrich other approaches to studying lesbian and gay aging and aging with HIV, both of which exemplify the later-life impacts of intersections between agency, biography, the institutionalised life course, and social change.
Dr. Dana Rosenfeld is a medical sociologist and social gerontologist with research interests in aging and the life course, chronic illness and disability, gender and sexuality, and self and identity. After receiving her Masters and PhD degrees in Sociology from UCLA, Dana was an NIMH Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the University of Kentucky’s Department of Behavioural Science before becoming Assistant Professor in Sociology at Colorado College, Lecturer at Royal Holloway University of London’s Department of Health and Social Care, Senior Lecturer and Reader at Keele University, where she founded and was Director of the Keele Centre for Ageing Research, and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Westminster. Dana has published widely on lesbian and gay aging, the lived experience of illness and disability, and ageing with HIV. She was lead editor of Medicalized Masculinities, the first book to question and critique the construction of masculinity as a health risk, and sole-authored the first book to approach lesbian and gay ageing through theoretical frames (The Changing of the Guard: Lesbian and Gay Elders, Identity, and Social Change).
Dana was Principal Investigator on the HIV and Later Life (HALL) project, funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research and Medical Research Council’s Life-long Health and Wellbeing Cross-Council Programme, and Co-Investigator on an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded series of seminars on HIV communities. Her HIV-related research has also been funded by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust. She serves on the editorial boards of Social Theory and Health and the Journal of Aging Studies, and on the advisory board of George House Trust’s Ageing Well programme.
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