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LSA Publication No. 108

Third Age
and Leisure: Research,
Principles and Practice

Available from LSA Publications
December 2009

ISBN 978 1 905369 22 5

Edited by
SBarbara Humberstone

 

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LSA No. 108
Third Age and Leisure: Research, Principles and Practice

Contents

Third Age and Leisure Research: Principles and Practice - Introduction
          Barbara Humberstone v

Gerontology-Leisure Research: The Past and the Future
          Carol Cutler-Riddick 1

Performing the Ageing Body and the Importance of Place: Some Autoethnographic Moments
          Andrew C. Sparkes 21

Reminiscence Workshops in Understanding the Leisure Lives of Older People: Case Study of Long-Term, Regular Theatregoers
          Jonathan Lewis 33

Disability and Ageing - Convergent Life Paths?
          Ian Brittain 49

Managing Identity in Later Life through Leisure: Interpreting the Experiences of Older Athletes
          Rylee A. Dionigi 59

Outdoor Adventures for the Third Age
          Mike Boyes 81

"Being With Our Own Kind": The Contexts of Gypsy-Traveller Elders' Social and Leisure Engagement
          Margaret Greenfields with Andrew Ryder 97

Practising Yoga Later in Life: A Mixed-Methods Study of English Women
Carol Cutler-Riddick and Barbara Humberstone 117

Movers & Shakers in Buckinghamshire: An Action Research Pilot Project Involving Caribbean Elders
          Olga McBarnett, Michael Bowker, Amanda Green and Graham Storer 131