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Discusses issues of population aging around the world, focusing on increase of old age groups in national population in relation to working age groups, and implications for production, growth, labor market, consumption, and other issues.

This book explores concepts of quality of life in older age in the theoretical literature and presents the views of a national sample of people aged sixty- five years or older. It offers a broad overview of the quality of life experienced by older people in Britain using a number of wide ranging indicators, including:. Health. Hobbies and interests. Home and neighbourhood. Income. Independence. Psychological wellbeing. Social and family relationships. The result is a fascinating book enlivened by rich data ¿ both quantitative and qualitative ¿ drawn from detailed surveys and interviews with al

A general discussion is presented on demographic aging, ie, the degree to which a pop attains a larger % of old than of young people. Various indices are examined as contributors: (1) mortality, (2) fertility, (3) sex, & (4) migration. Internat'l comparisons are made for 1950 & 1960, & forcasts are presented. All countries in the world are seen to be faced with the dilemma of seeing their pop's grow larger or older. Recent PO surveys show a general lack of awareness of this problem, since most people think it desirable for the pop to remain stationary, though they know that the number of old people is increasing. M. Truzzi.

The article analyzes the phenomenon of human and social aging, in an attempt to answer several questions related to social evolution. What principles should govern the relationship between the individual and society, and how far do our obligations to others extend? To what extent should the state intervene in market regulation? How does social change happen and how can the law ensure that everyone has a voice? The distinction between traditional rural communities and modern industrialized society is analyzed through the lens of Ferdinand Tönnies theory (German sociologist and philosopher, 26.07.1855 - 09.04.1936), wich points out what the distinction between traditional rural communities and modern industrialized society. The former are community that is based on the bonds of family and social groups such as the church. Small-scale communities tend to have common goals and beliefs, and interactions within them are based on trust and cooperation. Tönnies' theory, along with his work on methodology, paved the way for 20th-century sociology.

To shed light on the quality of the ageing experience in Europe and its heterogeneity, this study adapts and computes the Active Ageing Index - an index constructed at the country level to monitor ageing quality in Europe - at the individual level. This strategy allows the measuring of inequality in the experience of active ageing and is flexible enough to consider different value judgements in the overall assessment of the quality of life while ageing. The study examines the predictors of this inequality by using regressions with a Gini-recentred influence function. It finds that education plays a very significant role in reducing inequality, though its influence varies across countries. Furthermore, the study uncovers large variance in the quality of the ageing experience across Europe. For instance, more than 50% of the populations of Romania, Lithuania and Bulgaria show a level of active ageing quality lower than that of the bottom decile of the distribution in Sweden.