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This article analyses the reasons for higher voting participation among older people in Europe. Over their lifetimes, citizens tend to habituate voting and comply with a growing subjective norm of voting. Furthermore, the average voting participation of older people is influenced by their longer duration of residence, the lack of a mobilising partner, worse physical health and less education, although life experience replaces the function of formal education over a lifetime. Most of these factors are founded on the very nature of human behaviour and the social context of our life course. Thus, they arguably stand outside of the political process and will remain stable into the future.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables and Boxes -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 The Alzheimerization of the Euthanasia Debate -- 2 The Incidence and Impact of Alzheimer's Disease -- 3 Media Representations, Metaphors, and the Stigmatization of Alzheimer's Disease -- 4 Curbing Demand for Acute Healthcare Services -- 5 The Euthanasia Option -- 6 Mobilizing Political Support for the Legalization of Euthanasia -- 7 Propaganda, 'Dirty Tricks' Fallacies, and Opposing Points-of-View -- 8 Selling Death -- 9 Alzheimer's Disease and Euthanasia as a Symbolic System of Control -- 10 Euthanasia Politics and Public Opinion -- Bibliography -- Index.