Chris Gilleard
Chris Gilleard is Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Social & Policy Sciences at the University of Bath and the Division of Psychiatry at University College London. He has published in the areas of psychology, medicine, history and sociology as they relate to ageing and old age. He is also a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
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Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age
By Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard
Pushing forward new sociological theory, this book explores the theoretical and practical issues raised by ageing, and the associated problems of mental and physical frailty in later life.
Ageing in a consumer society
From passive to active consumption in Britain
By Ian Rees Jones, Martin Hyde, Christina R. Victor, Richard D. Wiggins, Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs
This book provides a unique critical perspective on the changing nature of later life by examining the engagement of older people with consumer society in Britain since the 1960s.
Social Divisions and Later Life
Difference, Diversity and Inequality
By Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs
As the population ages, this book reveals how divides that are apparent through childhood and working life change and are added to in later life.