Ageing with smartphones in urban Italy care and community in Milan and beyond
Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy explores ageing and technology amidst a backdrop of rapid global technological innovation, including mHealth (mobile health) and smart cities
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London
UCL Press
2021, 2021
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Table of Contents:
- Case di riposo, case di cura (retirement and care homes)
- Midlife and retirement: time, desire, freedom and money
- Time and freedom
- Money, time and financial precarity
- The bridge generation
- Conclusion: ageing at present
- Notes
- 3 Everyday life, activities and activisms
- Introduction
- Seasonal rhythms
- Individual rituals and routines
- Space and place
- Activities
- Being together online and offline
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 4 Social relations: social availability
- Introduction
- Kinships and social practices: traditional and contemporary perspectives
- 6 Health and care in digital times
- Introduction
- The national healthcare system in Italy and in Lombardy
- The development of digital health in Italy
- Health apps
- Self-sufficiency and digital technologies
- Care and communication
- Googling for health
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 7 Coming of age with smartphones
- Introduction
- Mahmood's victory
- Dina
- Dina and Noor
- Seconde generazioni and '2G' youth in Milan
- Digital connections and identities across borders
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 8 Life purpose: narratives of ageing
- Introduction
- Awareness and awakenings
- Ugo
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Chapter summaries
- List of figures
- Series Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Movement and mobilities
- Introduction to Milan
- Introduction to the fieldsite
- NoLo: what's in a name?
- Methodology: urban digital ethnography
- The approach
- The people
- Notes
- 2 Experiences of ageing: policies, perceptions and practices
- Introduction: (how) does age matter?
- Ageing actively in focus
- Ageing and care
- Care responsibilities
- Badanti (care workers)
- La famiglia (the family)
- Casa (house/home)
- Nonna (grandmother)
- Vivere da sola/o (living alone)
- Privacy and autonomy
- Public and private lives
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 5 Smartphones: constant companions
- Introduction
- Introductory portraits
- Local infrastructure and information
- Smartphone discourses
- Disinformation and misinformation
- Apps
- Talking without talking (parlare senza parlare)
- Audio messages
- Visual communication: memes and stickers
- Talking and expressing care
- Objects of everyday life
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Augustina
- Umberta
- Transnational mobilities and well-being
- Crises and contradiction
- Conclusion: the moving self and the smartphone
- The existential object
- Notes
- 9 Conclusion: threading together
- Introduction
- Being and becoming together
- Age(ing) and beyond
- Ageing with smartphones: a 'constant companion' for the contemporary world
- Conclusion: ageing together, differently
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover