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In policy circles, a response to meeting human needs through social networks and voluntary organizations is increasingly viewed as a substitute for publicly provided services. While prior research suggests that participation in these two types of voluntary activity may be related, the relationship is little understood. A secondary analysis of national survey data was carried out using bivariate and multivariate techniques to ascertain the relationship between indicators of voluntary organiza tion participation and close personal ties, as well as certain demographic charac teristics. Findings suggest that persons with a greater number of close personal ties will also participate in more voluntary organizations. Implications for policymaking are discussed.

SHARE is an international survey designed to answer the societal challenges that face us due to rapid population ageing. How do Europeans age? Under which circumstances do older people and their families live, how healthy and active are they, and how did the crisis affect them? The authors of this multidisciplinary book have taken a first step toward answering these questions based on the recent SHARE data including a new social networks module..

Delayed retirement is a policy measure aimed at ensuring financial stability in many countries, but this particular pension reform mechanism still lacks public support. Using data from the Israeli sample of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE) in Europe, this article examines factors which predict support for delayed retirement among older Israeli workers (n=556). Hierarchical regression analysis of agreement with recently instituted delayed retirement measures showed that the perceived societal consequences of the reform were the strongest predictors. Older and more educated respondents and those more confident in their present workplace were also more likely to support delayed retirement. Those who favour state responsibility for care of older people tended to support delayed retirement less. The findings suggest that information campaigns on the contribution of continued employment to health and family solidarity might diminish current fears regarding the delayed retirement-based pension reforms. They also imply that non-partisan leadership is needed in order to recruit broader public support for such reform.

Frontmatter --Contents --Editors --Contributors --1 SHARE: a European policy device for inclusive ageing societies /Börsch-Supan, Axel ; Kneip, Thorsten ; Litwin, Howard ; Myck, Michał ; Weber, Guglielmo --2. Material deprivation items in SHARE Wave 5 data: a contribution to a better understanding of differences in material conditions in later life /Adena, Maja ; Myck, Michał ; Oczkowska, Monika --3. Accessibility to neighbourhood services and well-being among older Europeans /Stoeckel, Kimberly J. ; Litwin, Howard --4. Assessing the material deprivation of older Europeans /Bertoni, Marco ; Cavapozzi, Danilo ; Celidoni, Martina ; Trevisan, Elisabetta --5. Development and validation of a material deprivation index /Bertoni, Marco ; Cavapozzi, Danilo ; Celidoni, Martina ; Trevisan, Elisabetta --6. Measuring social deprivation and social exclusion /Myck, Michał ; Najsztub, Mateusz ; Oczkowska, Monika --7. Material and social deprivation in the macroeconomic context /Najsztub, Mateusz ; Bonfatti, Andrea ; Duda, Dominika --8. Does hearing impairment lead to social exclusion? /Bertoni, Marco ; Celidoni, Martina ; Weber, Guglielmo ; Kneip, Thorsten --9. Older adults living with cognitive and mobility-related limitations: social deprivation and forms of care received /Fontaine, Roméo ; Pino, Maribel ; Jean-Baptiste, Marine ; Philibert, Aurore ; Briant, Nicolas ; Joël, Marie-Eve --10. Who can realise their retirement plans? Poor health and employment crises as factors of exclusion /Kröger, Hannes ; Hoffmann, Rasmus --11. Social inequalities in oral health -- towards targeted health policy interventions /Listl, Stefan ; Jürges, Hendrik --12. Slipping into poverty: effects on mental and physical health /Franzese, Fabio --13. Social cohesiveness and neighbourhood environmental deprivation: how are they related to life satisfaction in late life? /Stoeckel, Kimberly J. ; Litwin, Howard --14. Social exclusion and support between generations /Deindl, Christian ; Brandt, Martina ; Litwin, Howard --15. Loneliness in Europe: do perceived neighbourhood characteristics matter? /Shiovitz-Ezra, Sharon --16. Loneliness among informal caregivers aged 50+ in Europe /Wagner, Melanie ; Brandt, Martina --17. Social exclusion, welfare regime and unmet long-term care need: evidence from SHARE /Srakar, Andrej ; Hrast, Maša Filipovič ; Hlebec, Valentina ; Majcen, Boris --18. Growing old abroad: social and material deprivation among first- and secondgeneration migrants in Europe /Hunkler, Christian ; Kneip, Thorsten ; Sand, Gregor ; Schuth, Morten --19. Is there a European land of opportunity? Cross-country differences in intergenerational mobility in 14 European countries and Israel /Antonova, Liudmila ; Aranda, Luis ; Havari, Enkelejda ; Pace, Noemi --20. Coping with risks during the Great Recession /Bonfatti, Andrea ; Celidoni, Martina ; Weber, Guglielmo ; Börsch-Supan, Axel --21. Reverse mortgage: a tool to reduce old age poverty without sacrificing social inclusion /Moscarola, Flavia Coda ; d'Addio, Anna Cristina ; Fornero, Elsa ; Rossi, Mariacristina --22. Becoming self-employed at ages 50+: true entrepreneurship or exclusion from (wage- )employment? /Mastrogiacomo, Mauro ; Belloni, Michele --23. Does training help retaining older workers into employment? Evidence from the SHARE survey /Belloni, Michele ; Brugiavini, Agar ; Meschi, Elena ; Pasini, Giacomo --24. Early retirement for the underprivileged? Using the record-linked SHARE-RV data to evaluate the most recent German pension reform /Börsch-Supan, Axel ; Alt, Benedikt ; Bucher-Koenen, Tabea --25. The use of PC at work and job satisfaction /Cavapozzi, Danilo ; Trevisan, Elisabetta ; Weber, Guglielmo --26. Forgone visits to the doctor due to cost or lengthy waiting time among older adults in Europe /Tur-Sinai, Aviad ; Litwin, Howard ; Weber, Guglielmo --27. Health insurance coverage and access to care among European elders: crossnational differences and social gradients /Jürges, Hendrik --28. Pain and social exclusion among the European older people /Croda, Enrica --29. The educational gradient in life expectancy in Europe: preliminary evidence from SHARE /Bohacek, Radim ; Crespo, Laura ; Mira, Pedro ; Pijoan-Mas, Josep --30. Unmet need for long-term care and social exclusion /Laferrère, Anne ; Bosch, Karel Van den --31. Eligibility regulations and formal home-care utilisation among the vulnerable older people in SHARE Wave 5 /Carrino, Ludovico ; Orso, Cristina Elisa --32. Long-term care insurance across Europe /Bucher-Koenen, Tabea ; Schütz, Johanna ; Spindler, Martin --33. Long-term care insurance and the family: does the availability of potential caregivers substitute for long-term care insurance? /Bonsang, Eric ; Schoenmaeckers, Jérôme.

Health in later life is shaped by behavior and policies over the life course and reflects the differences between the societies in which we are ageing. This multidisciplinary book answers questions from all life course phases and its interconnections from a European perspective based on the most recent SHARE data, such as: How is our health related to personality traits and influenced by our childhood conditions and careers? Which role does our social network play? Which impacts of the different health care and societal regimes can we trace at older ages? Which are the differences and similarities across European countries?