Overview
This book provides the most comprehensive analysis available of the challenges created by Europe’s ageing population. Grounded in state-of-the-art scientific assessments by leading European researchers, the book is strongly policy focused. Indeed this book contains a detailed account of the policies required across a broad field, from economic sustainability and extending working lives, to healthy ageing, technological innovation, long term care and political citizenship, for the successful adaptation to the challenges of ageing in Europe and globally. It is a policy manifesto to ensure that the future of ageing in Europe is transformed into a highly beneficial one for both citizens and societies.
Full Product Details
Author: Alan Walker
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint: Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition: 1st ed. 2019
Weight: 0.575kg
ISBN: 9789811314162
ISBN 10: 9811314160
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 07 December 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
A 'must-read' for active politicians and policymakers. ... The Future of Ageing in Europe. Making an Asset of Longevity is organised in a different way. The reader will find that it covers a variety of, often unrelated, fields. ... The book is full of prognoses and predictions grounded in current knowledge and research. The research results are presented clearly and are well summarised in tables and charts, which enable reader easily to familiarise themselves with the presented data and results. (Radoslaw Medrzycki, European Journal of Social Security, Vol. 21 (4), 2019)
“A ‘must-read’ for active politicians and policymakers. … The Future of Ageing in Europe. Making an Asset of Longevity is organised in a different way. The reader will find that it covers a variety of, often unrelated, fields. … The book is full of prognoses and predictions grounded in current knowledge and research. The research results are presented clearly and are well summarised in tables and charts, which enable reader easily to familiarise themselves with the presented data and results.” (Radosław Mędrzycki, European Journal of Social Security, Vol. 21 (4), 2019)
Author Information
Alan Walker is Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has been researching and writing on aspects of ageing and social policy for more than 40 years. He has directed several major national and European research programmes and projects. In 2007 he was given Lifetime Achievement Awards by both the Social Policy Association and the British Society of Gerontology. In 2011 he was awarded the European Association of Gerontology’s first Medal and Honorary Diploma for Advances in Gerontology and Geriatrics (Social and Behavioural Sciences). He was the Economic and Social Research Councils’ first Impact Champion in 2013, was appointed CBE for Services to Social Science in 2014, and made a Fellow of the Gerontology Society of American in 2016.
