PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Sjaak Van Der Geest TI - Studying Older People in Ghana AID - 10.3368/gs.19.1.190 DP - 2016 Jan 01 TA - Ghana Studies PG - 190--201 VI - 19 IP - 1 4099 - https://gs.uwpress.org/gs.uwpress.org/content/19/1/190.short 4100 - https://gs.uwpress.org/gs.uwpress.org/content/19/1/190.full SO - Gha Stu2016 Jan 01; 19 AB - This reflection discusses six contributions to a special issue on the care and well-being of older people in Ghana. Special attention is given to reciprocity as a key to successful aging, to the complementarity of quantitative and qualitative research, to gender, to performance in the ethnographic encounter, to the social relevance of these studies, and to the problem of access to literature.