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Chapter 1. Introduction – The Importance of Critical Theorizing -- Chapter 2. Aging Populations in Comparative Perspective -- Chapter 3. Welfare and Aging in the UK – Historical and Contemporary Perspectives -- Chapter 4. PANDEMICS, WELFARE AND AGING -- Chapter 5. Social Work, Welfare and Aging -- Chapter 6. Understanding Community and Welfare -- Chapter 7. Welfare, Aging and Trust -- Chapter 8. Welfare, Work and Aging -- Chapter 9. Conclusion: Globalization, Welfare and Aging.

Cover Page -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Effect of Aging Populations on Society -- 1: The Effects of an Aging Society in the United Kingdom Are Uncertain -- 2: Israel Faces a Disaster as Its Population Ages -- 3: Worldwide, the Aging Population Can Create Opportunities -- 4: In Japan, Aging Women Face Economic Hardships -- 5: In China, the One-Child Policy Has Created Difficulties for Elder Care -- Periodical and Internet Sources Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Policy Solutions to Aging Populations -- 1: Brazil Can Solve Infrastructure Problems Associated with Its Aging Population -- 2: Iran Is Trying to Encourage Childbirths to Offset Its Aging Population -- 3: Rethinking Retirement in Korea Can Help Address an Aging Population -- 4: Immigration Can Balance the Aging Population in Europe -- 5: Immigration Will Not Balance an Aging Population in Germany -- Periodical and Internet Sources Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Attitudes toward the Elderly -- 1: The Elderly Enjoy High Status in Iran -- 2: Denmark Has Excellent Services for the Elderly -- 3: The Elderly Face Age Discrimination in Australia -- 4: Many Chinese Will Not Help the Elderly for Fear of Lawsuits -- 5: India's Elderly Have Little Social Protection -- Periodical and Internet Sources Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Health Issues and Aging -- 1: Hungry, Thirsty, Unwashed: NHS Treatment of the Elderly Condemned -- 2: The AIDS Epidemic in Africa Has Robbed the Elderly of Vital Caretakers -- 3: Latin America's Aging Population Must Deal with Chronic Diseases -- 4: Health Issues Plague the Aging Prison Population in the United States -- 5: Indonesia Should Subsidize Immunizations for the Elderly -- 6: Haiti: Don't Forget the Elderly -- Periodical and Internet Sources Bibliography -- For Further Discussion

Between longer life expectancies and declining birth rates, Europe's elder population is growing into a sizable minority with considerable impact on nations, health systems, and economies--in other words, global implications as well as local and regional ones. Those investing in the health of older adults need a double perspective: the social and clinical complexity of aging and the larger forces shaping these experiences. Aging in European Societies examines aging trends across the continent, analyzing individual and collective variables that affect the lives of older adults, and drawing salient comparisons with other parts of the world. An interdisciplinary panel of experts provides theory, research, and empirical findings (with examples from the UK, Cyprus, Sweden, and others) in key areas such as family and social supports, physical and cognitive changes, dependence and autonomy issues, and living arrangements. The book's wide-net approach offers insights into not only aging, but aging well. And of particular importance, it details approaches to defining and measuring the elusive but crucial concept, quality of life. Included in the coverage: The potential for technology to improve elders' quality of life. Dementia and quality of life issues. Changes in functional ability with aging and over time. Family networks and supports in older age. Factors influencing inequalities in quality of life. Late-life learning in the E.U. Gerontologists, sociologists, health and cross-cultural psychologists, and public health policymakers will welcome Aging in European Societies as a springboard toward continued discussion, new directions for research, and improvements in policy and practice.

Between longer life expectancies and declining birth rates, Europe's elder population is growing into a sizable minority with considerable impact on nations, health systems, and economies-in other words, global implications as well as local and regional ones. Those investing in the health of older adults need a double perspective: the social and clinical complexity of aging and the larger forces shaping these experiences. Aging in European Societies examines aging trends across the continent, analyzing individual and collective variables that affect the lives of older adults, and drawing salient comparisons with other parts of the world. An interdisciplinary panel of experts provides theory, research, and empirical findings (with examples from the UK, Cyprus, Sweden, and others) in key areas such as family and social supports, physical and cognitive changes, dependence and autonomy issues, and living arrangements. The book's wide-net approach offers insights into not only aging, but aging well. And of particular importance, it details approaches to defining and measuring the elusive but crucial concept, quality of life. Included in the coverage: The potential for technology to improve elders' quality of life. Dementia and quality of life issues. Changes in functional ability with aging and over time. Family networks and supports in older age. Factors influencing inequalities in quality of life. Late-life learning in the E.U. Gerontologists, sociologists, health and cross-cultural psychologists, and public health policymakers will welcome Aging in European Societies as a springboard toward continued discussion, new directions for research, and improvements in policy and practice

Altern ist nicht nur ein medizinischer und sozialer Vorgang es verlangt ein hohes Maß an Deutungsarbeit. Die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Bandes zeigen, welche Impulse und Grundlagen das weite Spektrum theologischer Deutung quer durch alle Teildisziplinen für einen konstruktiven Umgang mit dem Alter und seinen Herausforderungen bietet. Sie gehen dabei folgenden Fragen nach: Welche religionsgerontologischen Probleme bestimmen theologisches Nachdenken über das Altern? Wie lässt sich Altern systematisch-theologisch deuten? Welche Impulse bieten die großen biblischen Erzählungen zur Wahrnehmung des Alters? Wie lassen sich religions- und kulturhermeneutische Erkenntnisse zum Altern praktisch-theologisch fruchtbar machen? Wie kann die Diakonie auf differenzierte Prozesse des Alterns reagieren?

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction - What Is Aging? -- What Is Aging? -- The Bio-Medical Model: Biological and Psychological Aging - Science of Ageing? -- The Dark Side of Bio-Medical Assumptions: A Critical Analysis -- Conclusion -- The Management of Aging in the Dark Side of Modernity -- Problematizing Ageing -- Why Foucault? -- The 'Gaze' of Medical Power -- 'Surveillance' and the 'Mixed Economy of Welfare' -- Normalisation and the Probe of Assessment -- Resisting Domination? -- Post-Millennium - A Road to Nowhere? -- Victimisation and Aging -- Introduction -- Connecting 'Old Age', Victimology and the Fear of Crime -- Victimisation and Old Age: An Overview of the Literature -- Concluding Remarks -- Elder Abuse and Aging -- Introduction -- The Rise of Personalisation -- 'Taking Aim' at Personalization -- Foucault and Surveillance -- The Technologies of Care Management to Facilitate Personalisation? -- The Panoptic Culture -- Conclusion -- Death, Culture and Aging -- Introduction -- Understanding Michel Foucault -- Archaeology and Death -- Genealogy and Death -- Conclusion -- References -- Author's Contact Information -- Index -- Blank Page

Impact of aging populations in industrialized countries on pensions, financial stability, employment, and younger generations; US and OECD countries; 4 articles. Contents: Setting the stage: a generation of centenarians? by James Vaupel; Can industrialized countries afford their pension systems, by Vincent J. Truglia; Confronting an aging world, by Judd Gregg; Maintaining prosperity, by Nicholas Vanston.