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Ageing is a continuum process and life course perspective is the new way to analyse, to understand, to follow it, to explain it. On our understanding, the life course approach is going beyond life cycles, and accompanies individual in a holistic way. The person become significant in an integrative and comprehensive manner, continuing the humanistic approach from the middle of twenty centuries. The main challenge is to avoid the age as unstructural and functional regulator of personal life. Events, transitions, coping and resilience strategies are integrated in historical time of someone’s life. The study is argumentative and illustrative on this matter, using data collected by interviews with older adults from the same cohort. Conclusion goes to the benefit of life course perspective in studying, understanding the individual growing and ageing.
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The current study was supported by the European Union Horizon 2020 Research Programme COST IS 1409: Gender and health impacts of policies extending working lives in western countries: http://genderewl.com/3
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Şoitu, DT. (2020). Researching Ageing by the Life Course Perspective. In: Sarasola Sánchez-Serrano, J., Maturo, F., Hošková-Mayerová, Š. (eds) Qualitative and Quantitative Models in Socio-Economic Systems and Social Work. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 208. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18593-0_7
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