Focusing on mental health rather than mental illness, this book adopts a lifecourse approach
to understanding mental health and wellbeing in later life. Well-respected author and …

Past studies in the UK and the Netherlands indicate that loneliness varies significantly
according to characteristics of older people's residential environment. This raises questions …

From being primarily a social welfare issue and a problem of ageing, elder abuse has
developed into a public health issue. 1 Elder abuse, under the term granny battering, was …

The aim of this chapter is to highlight some key aspects of recent economic research on the
welfare state and antipoverty policy in rich countries and to explore their implications. We …

Technological innovation in robotics and ICT represents an effective solution to tackle the
challenge of providing social sustainable care services for the ageing population. The recent …

Europe's pensions landscape has changed dramatically since the 1990s. This paper tries to
assess better the impact of these changes using a broad social sustainability framework …

One hypothesis is that, in Sweden, the elderly today are more willing to change residence to
accommodate for changing lifestyles and poorer health than in earlier generations. If so, the …

We apply the collective consumption model of Browning et al.(2010) to analyse economic
well-being and poverty among the elderly. The model focuses on individual preferences, a …

The paper examines the impact of population ageing on the most important macroeconomic
aggregates and internal economic growth. I study elderly poverty aspect connected with …

The EU‐wide survey “S tatistics on I ncome and L iving C onditions”(EU‐SILC) is extremely
important for international social science research and policy advice. It is therefore crucial to …