The Futures of Old AgeJohn A Vincent, Chris Phillipson, Murna Downs 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 from the United Kingdom and United States, drawing on their expertise and research. The book′s seven sections deal with key contemporary themes including: population ageing; households and families; health; wealth; pensions; migration; inequalities; gender and self; and identity in later life. |
Contents
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Two Future Conflicts Across Generationsand Cohorts? | 20 |
Three Developments in the Life Course | 30 |
The Future of Social Differentiation | 41 |
An Enduring Relationship | 44 |
Change Choice and Constraints | 54 |
Twelve Ageing and Belief Between Tradition and Change | 125 |
Part V The Future for Health and Wellbeing in Old Age | 135 |
Thirteen Will Our Old Age Be Healthier? | 138 |
Fourteen Is there a Better Future for People with Dementia and their Families? | 147 |
Quality of Life of Older People in the Twentyfirst Century | 154 |
Sixteen The Ageing of Family Life Transitions | 164 |
Widowed and Divorced Men and Women in Later Life | 172 |
Eighteen Housing and Future Living Arrangements | 180 |
Six Ethnicity and Old Age | 62 |
The Future of Retirement and Pensions | 73 |
Seven The Future of Inequalitiesin Retirement Income | 76 |
Eight Will the Babyboomers be Better off than their Parents in Retirement? | 85 |
Nine The Future of Stock Market Pensions | 98 |
The Future for Self in Old Age | 107 |
Distinctiveness and Uniformity in the Struggle for Intergenerational Solidarity | 109 |
Eleven Biographical Work and the Futureof the Ageing Self | 117 |
Globalization and the Future of Old Age | 189 |
Nineteen Antiageing Science andthe Future of Old Age | 192 |
Twenty Ageing and Globalization | 201 |
Twentyone The Future Life Course Migration and Old Age | 208 |
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