Bio

Jason Danely is a senior lecturer of anthropology at Oxford Brookes University. He is author of Aging and Loss: Mourning and Maturity in Contemporary Japan (2014) and co-editor of Transitions and Transformations: Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course (2013). He is currently finishing a monograph on compassion and care of older family members in Japan and the UK. His research has been supported by JSPS, GB Sasakawa Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation Enhancing Life Project.