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  1. Selling surveillance technology: semiotic themes in advertisements for ageing in place with dementia

    Article • Social Semiotics, May 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  2. Relational experiences of people seeking help and assessment for subjective cognitive concern and memory loss

    Article • Aging & Mental Health, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Phuong Leung, Professor Paul F Higgs, Dr Georgina Charlesworth

  3. Care workers, the unacknowledged persons in person-centred care: A secondary qualitative analysis of UK care home staff interviews

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2018, PLOS

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  4. Topographies of ‘care pathways’ and ‘healthscapes’: Reconsidering the multiple journeys of people with a brain tumour

    Article • Sociology of Health & Illness, December 2017, Wiley

    Henry Llewellyn, Professor Paul F Higgs

  5. Ageing, dementia and the social mind: past, present and future perspectives

    Article • Sociology of Health & Illness, February 2017, Wiley

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  6. Ageing, corporeality and social divisions in later life

    Article • Ageing and Society, June 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  7. Connecting Life Span Development with the Sociology of the Life Course: A New Direction

    Article • Sociology, May 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  8. A decade of research using the CASP scale: key findings and future directions

    Article • Aging & Mental Health, April 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  9. Studying dementia: the relevance of the fourth age

    Article • Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, December 2014, Emerald

    Professor Paul F Higgs, Chris Gilleard

  10. Revisionist or simply wrong? A response to Armstrong's article on chronic illness

    Article • Sociology of Health & Illness, August 2014, Wiley

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  11. Phillipson, C. Ageing, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013. 192 pp. £50.00 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-7456-3084-7

    Article • Sociology of Health & Illness, May 2014, Wiley

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  12. The experiences of close persons caring for people with chronic kidney disease stage 5 on conservative kidney management: Contested discourses of ageing

    Article • Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine, April 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  13. The fourth age and the concept of a ‘social imaginary’: A theoretical excursus

    Article • Journal of Aging Studies, December 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  14. Editorial

    Article • Social Theory & Health, July 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  15. Social class in later life

    Article • July 2013, Policy Press

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  16. ‘Disturbances in the field’: The challenge of changes in ageing and later life for social theory and health

    Article • Social Theory & Health, June 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  17. Financial planning for social care in later life: the ‘shadow’ of fourth age dependency

    Article • Ageing and Society, December 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Debora Janet Price, Professor Paul F Higgs

  18. Risk owners and risk managers: Dealing with the complexity of feeding children with neurodevelopmental disability

    Article • Health Risk & Society, October 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  19. Choice, consumerism and devolution: growing old in the welfare state(s) of Scotland, Wales and England

    Article • Ageing and Society, June 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  20. Neuroculture, active ageing and the ‘older brain’: problems, promises and prospects

    Article • Sociology of Health & Illness, June 2011, Wiley

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  21. Ageing abjection and embodiment in the fourth age

    Article • Journal of Aging Studies, April 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  22. Consumption and Aging

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  23. The natural, the normal and the normative: Contested terrains in ageing and old age

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, October 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  24. Generational conflict, consumption and the ageing welfare state in the United Kingdom

    Article • Ageing and Society, August 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  25. Aging without agency: Theorizing the fourth age

    Article • Aging & Mental Health, March 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  26. Review: Taking care of yourself in later life: A qualitative study into the use of non-prescription medicines by people aged 60+

    Article • Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine, February 2010, SAGE Publications

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  27. The Experience of Retirement in Second Modernity

    Article • Sociology, February 2010, SAGE Publications

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  28. The Power of Silver: Age and Identity Politics in the 21st Century

    Article • Journal of Aging & Social Policy, June 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  29. Critical and reflective gerontology

    Article • Ageing and Society, April 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  30. Not just old and sick – the ‘will to health’ in later life

    Article • Ageing and Society, April 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  31. Internet use and the digital divide in the English longitudinal study of ageing

    Article • European Journal of Ageing, July 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  32. Promoting mental health in later life

    Article • Aging & Mental Health, May 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  33. The Evaluation of a Self-enumerated Scale of Quality of Life (CASP-19) in the Context of Research on Ageing: A Combination of Exploratory and Confirmatory Approaches

    Article • Social Indicators Research, December 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  34. The Impact of Age, Place, Aging in Place, and Attachment to Place on the Well-Being of the Over 50s in England

    Article • Research on Aging, November 2007, SAGE Publications

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  35. "Grey Nomads" in Australia: Are They a Good Model for Successful Aging and Health?

    Article • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, October 2007, Wiley

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  36. Jason L. Powell, Social Theory and Aging, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, 2005, 157 pp., pbk $16.95, ISBN 0 7425 1954 6.

    Article • Ageing and Society, March 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  37. Departing the margins

    Article • Journal of Sociology, September 2006, SAGE Publications

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  38. Stephen Katz, Cultural Aging: Life Course, Lifestyle and Senior Worlds, Broadview, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, 2005, 272 pp., pbk Can.$31.95, ISBN 1 5511 1577 8.

    Article • Ageing and Society, June 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  39. Lars Andersson (ed.), Cultural Gerontology, Auburn House, Westport, Connecticut, 2002, 232 pp., hbk $65.95, ISBN 0 86569 327 7.

    Article • Ageing and Society, November 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  40. Quality of life in the third age: key predictors of the CASP-19 measure

    Article • Ageing and Society, August 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  41. Life course influences on quality of life in early old age

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, June 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  42. The effects of pre-retirement factors and retirement route on circumstances in retirement: findings from the Whitehall II study

    Article • Ageing and Society, March 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  43. Pathways to early retirement: structure and agency in decision-making among British civil servants

    Article • Ageing and Society, October 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  44. A measure of quality of life in early old age: The theory, development and properties of a needs satisfaction model (CASP-19)

    Article • Aging & Mental Health, May 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul F Higgs

  45. The third age: class, cohort or generation?

    Article • Ageing and Society, May 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Paul F Higgs