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In this article we explore the revival of rave music in the UK, reporting original research findings and focusing, in particular, upon two emergent themes: (1) the lived experience of the ageing raver, and its embodied and collective nature; and (2) the changing role of the DJ. The article draws upon 15 in-depth interviews with both music professionals and ordinary participants who were part of the rave scene in the 1990s and who are now either returning to rave, after a period away from it, or who, having decreased their involvement, are now stepping it up again in the context of the revival. We explore how rave's revival constitutes a form of heritage which is crucial to the UK's creative economy and we illustrate how heritage rave events provide a collective space for ageing ravers to relive times, music and dances of old. However, we find that heritage rave is also a space of contention between advocates of 'authentic' and 'commercialised' forms of rave respectively. A further finding centres upon the ways in which reviving rave and reframing it in terms of heritage has transformed the position and role of the DJ. Having been a background figure in rave's first wave, the DJ has become a centralised and revered figure within the heritage rave sector. There is a greater demand for professionalism and therefore sobriety, a demand which often agrees with those of their ageing body, but there are also performance demands which must be reconciled with the limitations of the latter. All DJ'ing involves non-contact bodywork – using music and mixing as a means of eliciting a specific and importantly, collective, bodily response – we argue, but this is heightened in the heritage rave scene.

Allergic diseases often occur early in life and persist throughout life. This life-course perspective should be considered in allergen immunotherapy. In particular it is essential to understand whether this al treatment may be used in old age adults. The current paper was developed by a working group of AIRWAYS integrated care pathways for airways diseases, the model of chronic respiratory diseases of the European Innovation Partnership on active and healthy ageing (DG CONNECT and DG Santé). It considered (1) the political background, (2) the rationale for allergen immunotherapy across the life cycle, (3) the unmet needs for the treatment, in particular in preschool children and old age adults, (4) the strategic framework and the practical approach to synergize current initiatives in allergen immunotherapy, its mechanisms and the concept of active and healthy ageing.

Ageing population and the need of governments to adjust their budgets show the importance of measuring the economic impact of dependent care centres in order to analyse the ability of social services to influence economic development and to establish action policies. This study examines the economic impact of 160 care centres for elderly and disabled people in the region of Cantabria (Spain). The results show the creation of 36 jobs per million invested, a return rate for the administration by taxes and social security contributions of 66 euros for every 100 euros invested and a production multiplier of 2.38.

This paper presents some of the main aspects of the Directive 2011/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2011 on the application of patients' rights in cross-border healthcare, commonly known as the Patients' Rights Directive, and as well treats the problematic exclusion of the long-term services from its scope. This Directive represents the latest EU initiative in regard to the European Health Care and the Single Market, but it is observed that the exclusion made by the Member States might lead to conclusions that the PRD is biased against the chronically ill and patients seeking long-term care, especially in an ageing Europe background that emerges in nowadays society.

Cette thèse se penche sur la précarité résidentielle vécue par des locataires vieillissantes à faible revenu en contexte de gentrification, à Montréal. Au Québec, la thématique du vieillissement sur place a pris récemment une portée médiatique et politique grandissante dans le sillon de l'adoption de la l'article 1959.1 (projet de loi 492), qui protège maintenant certaines personnes de 70 ans et plus contre l'éviction et la reprise de logement. Par contre, force est de constater que la capacité de certaines personnes vieillissantes à vieillir dans leur logement se trouve aujourd'hui mise en jeu par des transformations urbaines diverses comme la gentrification. Bien que plusieurs études en gérontologie sociale urbaine documentent l'expérience du déplacement dit indirect chez les populations vieillissantes dans plusieurs villes du monde, les effets de la gentrification sur les rapports au logement de locataires vieillissantes sont encore méconnus. Cette recherche qualitative, basée sur un terrain d'observation de plus de 2 ans ainsi que sur 31 entretiens semi-dirigés réalisés avec des intervenantes de comités logement (n=13) et des locataires vieillissantes (n=18), donne la parole aux personnes vieillissantes elles-mêmes, en grande majorité des femmes. Le concept de précarité résidentielle, défini comme un continuum de situations rendant l'occupation du logement incertaine, inadéquate ou inabordable, dont la forme la plus extrême est l'expulsion, est divisé en quatre grandes catégories : la sécurité d'occupation, la menace directe, la menace indirecte et l'expulsion. La recherche s'intéresse tout particulièrement aux diverses manières dont la relation locative entre propriétaires et locataires vieillissantes affecte la capacité au maintien dans les lieux de ces dernières. En effet, en contexte de gentrification, certains propriétaires auront intérêt à expulser des locataires vieillissantes, qui paient généralement des loyers moins chers que les prix du marché en raison d'une longue durée d'occupation. Comme ces ...