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This volume addresses key issues such as the cultural and discursive context in which physical activity is discussed; the process of becoming physically active; the role of care settings in enabling physical activity; pleasure; gender; and place and space.
1. Introduction: Rethinking Physical Activity and Sport in Later Life; Emmanuelle Tulle and Cassandra Phoenix 2. Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour: A Vital Politics of Old Age?; Emmanuelle Tulle 3. Physical Activity and Narratives of Successful Ageing; Elizabeth Pike 4. Fitness and Consumerism in Later Life; Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard 5. Type 2 Diabetes and Commitment of Seniors to Adapted Physical Activity Within the French System of Therapeutic Education; Nathalie Barth and Claire Perrin 6. Pathways to Masters Sport: Sharing Stories from Sport 'Continuers', 'Rekindlers' and 'Late Bloomers'; Rylee Dionigi 7. Keeping It In The Family: The Generational Transmission Of Physical Activity; Victoria J. Palmer 8. Later Life Physical Activity in Residential Care Settings; Mary Ann Kluge 9. Physical Activity and dementia: Tai Chi as Narrative Care; Gary Kenyon 10. The Multidimensionality of Pleasure in Later Life Physical Activity; Cassandra Phoenix and Noreen Orr 11. The Contingencies of Exercise Science in a Globalizing World: Ageing Chinese Canadians and their Play and Pleasure in Exercise; Shannon Jette and Patricia Vertinsky 12. Fell Running In Later Life: Irresponsible Intoxication Or existential Capital?; Sarah Nettleton 13. Ageing and Embodied Masculinities in Sport and Physical Activity: From flesh to Theory and Back Again; Andrew C. Sparkes 14. Ageing Women Still Play Games: (Auto)ethnographic Research in a Fitness Intervention Programme; Gertrud Pfister and Verena Lenneis 15. Physical Activity Among Older Adults with Visual Impairment: Considerations for Ageing Well with Sight Loss; Meridith Griffin 16. Local Environments and Activity in Later Life: Wellbeing Experiences in Green and Blue Spaces; Sarah Bell and Benedict Wheeler
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