Physical activity and sport in later life : critical perspectives / edited by Emmanuelle Tulle and Cassandra Phoenix.

Houndmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

ix, 189 pages ; 23 cm.

Notes on contributors -- 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 C.J. 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 A. 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 VerenaLenneis -- 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 L. Bell and Benedict W. Wheeler -- Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.