Introduction: Why we need to promote interdisciplinary dialogue in contemporary age studies
Part I. What does it mean to grow old?. Abolition, women's rights, and the contested value of being old in the nineteenth-century United States
Response 1: Abstracting ageist perceptions, societal ills, and racist burdens on the psychological well-being of Black women : is successful aging still an option?
There is no such thing as the elderly : reading age in nineteenth-century American literature
Response 2: Intersectionality and age
Cognition and recognition in the ethics of dementia care
Response 3: Philosophical approaches to dementia : some further reflections on agency and identity
Agency and the aging artist
Response 4: The art of bending the successful aging paradigm : contemporary older artists and their continuing creative practices
Part II. Aging : old age and disability. Estragement : towards an 'age theory' theatre criticism
Response 5: Fuch's case for stranger visions
Ableism and ageism : insights from disability studies for aging studies
Response 6: Fears generating ageism and ableism are well-founded in a society that does not seek or support full inclusion of all persons
In conversation with Sally Chivers : reimagining long-term residential care
Response 7: Aging and caring amid words, stories, and texts
Queer aging and the significance of (narrative) representations
Response 8: What we miss
Part III. Aging, old age, and activism. Conceptualizing ageism : from prejudice and discrimination to fourth ageism
Aging in the anthropocene : generational time, declining longevity, posthuman aging
Response 10: Aging in the anthropocene : geological time, generational place
Critical conversations on aging futures : decolonial perspectives
Response 11: The age of (relentless) responsibility
Part IV. Old age and humanistic approaches to care. Intimacy and distance : reflections on eldercare in the United States
Response 12: Toward a deeper understanding of care in later life
Care work and the politics of interdependence
Response 13: Developing new forms of care : from individual to collective agency
Posthuman care and posthumous life in Marjorie Prime
Response 14: Only persons can provide person-centered care for people living with dementia : Walter Prime and his ilk miss the mark
Risky business : bringing transformative creativity to U.S. nursing homes
Response 15: Valuing risk in residential long-term care : setting an important ethical standard for supporting and nurturing human flourishing.