Format:
Online-Ressource (xv, 255 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
1412901073
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1412901081
Content:
What is the future of old age? How will families, services, and economies adapt to an older population? Such questions often provoke extreme and opposing answers: some see ageing populations as having the potential to undermine economic growth and prosperity; others see new and exciting ways of living in old age. The Futures of Old Age places these questions in the context of social and political change, and assesses what the various futures of old age might be. Prepared by the British Society of Gerontology, The Futures of Old Age brings together a team of leading international gerontologists
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-245) and index
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"Published in association with BSG
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Cover ; Copyright ; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Tables; List of Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part IThe Future of the Life Course; One - Visions of Later Life: Golden Cohortto Generation Z; Two - Future 'Conflicts' Across Generationsand Cohorts?; Three - Developments in the Life Course; Part II: The Future of Social Differentiation; Four - Ageing and Social Class:An Enduring Relationship; Five - Gender and Later Life: Change, Choice and Constraints; Six - Ethnicity and Old Age; Part III: The Future of Retirement and Pensions
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Seven - The Future of Inequalitiesin Retirement IncomeEight - Will the Baby-boomers be Better off than their Parents in Retirement? ; Nine - The Future of Stock Market Pensions; Part IV: The Future for 'Self' in Old Age; Ten - Ageing Selves and Others:Distinctiveness and Uniformity in the Struggle for Intergenerational Solidarity; Eleven - Biographical Work and the Futureof the Ageing Self; Twelve - Ageing and Belief - Between Tradition and Change; Part V - The Future for Health and Well-being in Old Age; Thirteen - Will Our Old Age Be Healthier?
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Fourteen - Is there a Better Future for People with Dementia and their Families?Fifteen - The Future of Well-being: Quality of Life of Older People in the Twenty-first Century; Sixteen - The Ageing of Family Life Transitions; Seventeen - Flying Solo in Old Age: Widowed and Divorced Men and Women in Later Life; Eighteen - Housing and Future Living Arrangements; Part VII: Globalization and the Future of Old Age; Nineteen - Anti-ageing Science andthe Future of Old Age; Twenty - Ageing and Globalization; Twenty-one - The Future Life Course, Migration and Old Age; References; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781412901079
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Futures of Old Age
Language:
English
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