Sarah Harper

AGEING SOCIETIES (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Ageing Societies examines the myths, challenges and opportunities behind these figures

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444119350
• Artikelnr.: 40862405

Autorenporträt

Sarah Harper is Director of the Oxford Institute of Ageing at the University of Oxford, UK. She has taught and studied issues of demography and societal ageing in China, Scandinavia, Australia and the USA, and was Professor in public policy at the University of Chicago, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Ageing societies
2. The dynamics of population ageing
3. Understanding age and ageing
Societal ageing
4. Retirement: from rest to reward to right
5. Intergenerational contract and social security
6. Changing families
7. Intergenerational relationships and family care
Challenges
8. Providing economic security in less developed countries
9. Supporting families and elder care in less developed countries
Opportunities
10. Equal treatment, equal rights: ending age discrimination
11. Mature societies: planning for our future selves