This comprehensive text focuses on the social contexts of ageing, looking at the diversity of
ageing and older people, and at different factors that are important to experiences of old age …

What is ageing? Why is ageing important and how can we understand it better? How does
policy and practice in relation to ageing populations differ across the globe? This book aims …

Social gerontology is a relatively new and dynamic scientific field reflecting increasing
interest in ageing across the world. Throughout the centuries, old age and ageing have …

This SAGE Handbook integrates basic research on social dimensions of aging. It presents
programmatic applications of research in areas not often seen in Handbooks including …

We live in ageing societies. Age preoccupies governments as much as individuals. A new
affluence has spread across society and across the lifecourse. For many people looking …

The purpose of this chapter is to address relationships and connections between ageing
populations and social structures, with a particular focus on arguments and theories in social …

Old age is a part of the lifecycle about which there are numerous myths and stereotypes. To
present an overstatement of commonly held beliefs, the old are portrayed as dependent …

Ageing populations represent a key global challenge for the twenty-first century. Few areas
of life will remain untouched by the accompanying changes to cultural, economic and social …

The field of gerontology, the study of aging, has emerged as an area of increasing
importance. This book is an introduction to the multidisciplinary field of gerontology. The text …

Sometime in the relatively near future, the human species will reach a watershed moment in
which people over the age of 60 outnumber children. This is a world in which there are both …