Miriam Boyles
Biographic Data
| ID | 243378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miriam Boyles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miriam |
| FAMILY NAME | Boyles |
| SIGNATURE | BOYLES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Health and Society Newcastle University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Embodying Transition in Later Life: "Having a Fall" as an Uncertain Status Passage for Elderly Women in Southeast London
In their (2014 report, the charity AgeUK states that one-third of older people (over 3 million) fall each year. This article takes a focused look at falling by describing four women's accounts of "having a fall" in Walworth, southeast London, which sheds light on the experience of personal and corporeal change in later life. While some experiential studies of falling have made reference to a loss of embodied control and changes in identity, these…
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Embodying Transition in Later Life: "Having a Fall" as an Uncertain Status Passage for Elderly Women in Southeast London
In their (2014 report, the charity AgeUK states that one-third of older people (over 3 million) fall each year. This article takes a focused look at falling by describing four women's accounts of "having a fall" in Walworth, southeast London, which sheds light on the experience of personal and corporeal change in later life. While some experiential studies of falling have made reference to a loss of embodied control and changes in identity, these…
Aesthetics (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention (1 works) · Context (archaeology (1 works) · Embodied cognition (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Everyday life (1 works) · Experiential learning (1 works) · Fall of man (1 works) · Falling (accident (1 works)