Thursday, July 8, 2021 - 15:00
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.
The book, which is based on Dr Leahy's PhD and postdoctoral studies undertaken at our department and supported by the Irish Research Council, can be purchased from Policy Press.