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Podcast: The Pulse
Episode: Disability & Ageing: Ann Leahy
Description: Dr Ann Leahy, a PhD graduate of Maynooth University Sociology Department, recently published her new book Disability & Ageing: Towards a Critical Perspective. This book challenges assumptions about impairment in later life and the residual nature of the ‘fourth age’. It proposes that the experience of ‘disability’ in older age reaches beyond the bodily context and can involve not only a challenge to a sense of value and meaning in life, but also ongoing efforts in response.Highlights:Introduction (00:00)Opening Remarks “Ageing Parents” (01:12)Introducing Ann Leahy (02:27)Linkages Between Disability & Ageing (03:01)Importance of Self-Identifying as Disabled (04:24)“Disability Iden...