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Introduction -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Methodological and Empirical Advancements in Active Ageing and Quality of Life - Special Focuses of the Book (Gloria Fernández-Mayoralas, Fermina Rojo-Pérez) -- Part I: Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives -- Chapter 2. Active Aging and Quality of Life (Rocío Fernández-Ballesteros, Marta Santacreu, Macarena Sánchez-Izquierdo) -- Chapter 3. Active Ageing and the Longevity Revolution (Alexandre Kalache, Ina Voelcker) -- Chapter 4. Active Ageing and Quality of Life: A Systematized Literature Review (Fermina Rojo-Pérez, Gloria Fernández-Mayoralas, Vicente Rodríguez-Rodríguez) -- Chapter 5. The Life Course Construction of Inequalities in Health and Wealth in Old Age (Michel Oris, Marie Baeriswyl, Andreas Ihle) -- Chapter 6. Lifelong Learning and Quality of Life (Mª Ángeles Molina, Rocío Schettini) -- Chapter 7. Aging at a Developmental Crossroad: The Case for Generativity in Later Life (Feliciano Villar, Rodrigo Serrat) -- Chapter 8. Quality of Life of Older People with Dementia (Beatriz León Salas, Maria-João Forjaz, Carmen Rodríguez-Blázquez, Pablo Martínez-Martín) -- Part II: Social Policy Issues and Research Agenda -- Chapter 9. Developmental Social Policy and Active Aging with High Quality of Life. A Preventative, Life-Course-Oriented Approach (Christian Aspalter) -- Chapter 10. "Active Ageing": Its Relevance from an Historical Perspective (Julio Pérez Díaz, Antonio Abellán García) -- Chapter 11. Transnational Ageing and Quality of Life (Vincent Horn) -- Chapter 12. What Should Guarantee Pensions Systems Designed with a Human Rights Based Approach? (Sol Minoldo, Enrique Peláez) -- Chapter 13. Civil Society Organizations' Discourse and Interventions to Promote Active Ageing in Relation with the Quality of Life in Latin-America (Vicente Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Verónica Montes De Oca Zavala, Mariana Paredes, Sagrario Garay-Villegas) -- Chapter 14. Outdoor Green Spaces and Active Ageing from the Perspective of Environmental Gerontology (Diego Sánchez-González, Carmen Egea-Jiménez) -- Chapter 15. Active Ageing and Quality of Life: An Agenda for Scientific Research (Alan Walker) -- Part III: Methods, Measurement Instruments-Scales, Evaluations -- Chapter 16. Active Ageing and Quality of Life. Measures, Instruments, and Applications (Carmen Rodríguez-Blázquez, Maria João Forjaz).-Chapter 17. Measuring the Impact of Active and Assisted Living (Aal) Solutions: An Analysis of Research Practices (Birgit Aigner‐Walder, Albert Luger, Julia Himmelsbach) -- Chapter 18. Quality of Later Life in Europe: An Econometric Analysis (Noelia Somarriba Arechavala, Pilar Zarzosa Espina, Patricia Gómez-Costilla) -- Chapter 19. Proposals for Better Caring and Ageing: Results from Evaluation of Programmes (Mª Silveria Agulló-Tomás, Vanessa Zorrilla-Muñoz, Mª Victoria Gómez-García, Marian Blanco-Ruíz) -- Chapter 20. Preventing Loneliness: Promising Insights for Achieving Active Aging and a Positive Quality of Life (José Buz, Jenny De Jong Giervel, Daniel Perlman) -- Part IV. Applications (Domains, Geographical Contexts) -- Chapter 21. Gender Differences in Active Aging in Canada: The Roles of Insufficient Income and Violence (Maria Victoria Zunzunegui, Emmanuelle Belanger) -- Chapter 22. Health and the Built Environment: Enhancing Healthy Aging through Environmental Interventions (Marcia G. Ory, Chanam Lee, Aya Yoshikawa) -- Chapter 23. Cuba: Active Ageing and Quality of Life of Older Persons (Alina C. Alfonso León, Rolando. García Quiñones) -- Chapter 24. Active Ageing for Quality of Later Life in México: The Role Of Physical and Social Environments (Sagrario Garay Villegas, Verónica Montes De Oca Zavala) -- Chapter 25. Happiness as a Quality of Life Component for Active Ageing in Colombia (Doris Cardona A., Alejandra Segura C., Diana Isabel Muñoz R., Ángela Segura C.) -- Chapter 26. Satisfaction with Quality of Life Among Ex-Combatants During the Reintegration Process: Colombia (Carlos Robledo Marín, Doris Cardona A.) -- Chapter 27. Successful Aging and Quality of Life. A Cross-Ethnic Comparison in Chile (Esteban Sánchez-Moreno, Lorena Gallardo-Peralta, Vicente Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Abel Soto Higuera) -- Chapter 28. Growing Older with Dignity: The Nature and Determinants of Quality of Life Among Older People in South Africa (Pranita Maharaj, Benjamin Roberts) -- Chapter 29. Staying Engaged: Experiences and Opportunities for Diverse Populations to Age Well in Australia (Jackie Liddle, Nancy A. Pachana) -- Chapter 30. Age-Friendly Environments and Active Aging for Community-Based Older People Living in Beijing, China (Yang Cheng, Jing Xi, Mark Rosenberg) -- Chapter 31. Successful Aging and Active Aging in Taiwan. From Concept to Application: Micro and Macro Perspectives (Hui-Chuan Hsu) -- Chapter 32. Social Participation, Occupational Activities and Quality of Life in Older Europeans: A Focus on the Oldest Old (Lia Araujo, Laetitia Teixeira, Oscar Ribeiro, Constança Paul) -- Chapter 33. Quality of Life of Older Swedes (Deborah Finkel, Gerdt Sundström) -- Chapter 34. Active Ageing as Framework for a Quality of Life Enabling Environment in Nursing Homes in Flanders, Belgium (Ellen Gorus, Patricia De Vriendt, Lien Van Malderen) -- Chapter 35. Activities to Address Quality of Life Between Urban and Rural Ageing People in the Czech Republic (Marcela Petrová Kafková) -- Chapter 36. Active Ageing: Conceptual Developments, International Experiences and Recent Policy Strategies in Italy (Claudia Di Matteo, Giovanni Lamura, Andrea Principi) -- Chapter 37. Multimorbidity, Social Networks and Health-Related Wellbeing at the End of the Life Course (Dolores Puga, Celia Fernández-Carro, Hermenegildo Fernández-Abascal) -- Chapter 38. Care and Active Ageing (María Teresa Martín Palomo, María Pía Venturiello, Gloria Fernández-Mayoralas, María Eugenia Prieto-Flores) -- Chapter 39. Residential Environment and Active Ageing: The Role of Physical Barriers in Leisure Participation (María-Eugenia Prieto-Flores, Raúl Lardiés-Bosque, Fermina Rojo-Pérez).

Family and social networks are changing at all ages, becoming more fragile and less dense, and contact is getting less in-person. However, these networks are one of the most important dimensions of domain-specific quality of life among older-adults. This chapter deals with the networks and associated factors analysis. Data come from the Ageing in Spain Longitudinal Study, Pilot Survey (ELES-PS), representative of people aged 50 years old or more in community dwelling. Information about network size and structure and satisfaction with relationships was used. Univariate and bivariate statistical techniques were applied. The results showed the role that family and friends play in older-adult networks. The family network proved to be broader than the social network, which decreased with age due to health and functioning decline. Not in-person contact outweighed in-person contact with children and parents, and a strong in-person relationship with grandchildren remained. The survey pointed to the residential independence of older-adults from their family network, and the further relatives lived from older-adults' home, the more contact was kept by phone, letter or other not in-person forms. Contacts in-person prevailed with friends and neighbours. Satisfaction with relationships was very high, especially the contact with first degree relatives ; The Ageing in Spain Longitudinal Study, Pilot Survey (ELES-PS), has been carried out by the Research Unit on Ageing Process (Research Group on Ageing, GIE-CSIC, and the Matia Instituto Gerontologico) and supported by the "Acciones Complementarias 2009" Programme of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (CSO2009-06637-E/SOCI; CSO2009-06638-E/SOCI; CSO2009- 08645- E/SOCI), the SAIOTEK 2009 Programme of the Basque Government, and the "Obra Social Caja Madrid" Foundation. The data analysis of this survey was founded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness ("Proyectos de. Investigación Fundamental No Orientada 2011", Ref. CSO2011-30210-C02-01). More information can be seen in: http://www.proyectoeles.es ; Peer reviewed

Purpose As life expectancy increases, a progressively higher number of older adults have to cope with multiple chronic diseases, which cause functional deterioration and impaired quality of life and may impede ageing at home with autonomy and independence. Therefore, it is im-portant to have a reliable, valid and easy-to-apply measure of disease burden morbidity, cen-tered in the person. This study describes the metric properties of the disease burden morbidity assessment (DBMA)1,2 using Rasch analysis3, which allows developing linear measures that may be applied using computerized test assessment. Method Participants were 1400 adults aged 50 years and over from the Longitudinal Study Aging in Spain Pilot Survey (ELES-PS)4. The DBMA asked about the impact of several chronic health problems on activities of daily liv-ing, with a 5-point response scale. Rasch analysis was applied. Results & Discussion The par-ticipants¿ mean age was 65.5±10.40 years, 55.4% were women, and reported a mean number of chronic conditions of 2.5±2.25. After adjusting the response scale, a good fit to the Rasch model was achieved, with items local independence and unidimensionality, no differential item functioning, though with low reliability. The linear measure showed moderate correlations with physical function and self-rated health. In conclusion, after adjustment the DBMA offers results in a linear measure, with an adequate internal and construct validity. This measure allows as-sessing the impact of illness according to the patient¿s perspective and supports its application through computerized test assessment.

El impacto de la pandemia de COVID-19 en la población de los países de América Latina (AL) depende en gran medida de las acciones de política pública (en general) y de salud (en particular) que los gobiernos hayan adoptado para frenar su avance y efectos. Especial atención merecen las personas mayores como grupo demográfico de más vulnerabilidad frente a esta enfermedad infecciosa. Así, este trabajo tiene dos objetivos: primero, examinar la tendencia de COVID-19 a partir de los casos confirmados y la mortalidad por esa causa entre personas adultas mayores de una selección de países de AL (Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, México y Uruguay) junto con España; para luego destacar las acciones y políticas dirigidas a la atención de la población mayor en cada país durante la primera ola de la pandemia. ; The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the population of the countries of Latin America (LA) depends, to a large extent, on the public policies, and particularly on the health actions, that governments have adopted to confront the social and health crisis the pandemic has brought. Older people deserve special attention as one of the most vulnerable demographic groups to this infectious disease. The objec-tives of this work are: firstly, to examine the COVID-19 trend from confirmed cases and mortality due to this cause among older persons from a group of LA countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Uruguay) and Spain. Secondly, to explore actions and policies put in place in these countries to support older persons in particular, during the first wave of the pandemic. ; publishedVersion ; Fil: Acosta, Laura Débora. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales; Argentina. ; Fil: Acosta, Laura Débora. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad; Argentina. ; Fil: Cardona Arango, Doris. Universidad Ces.; Colombia. ; Fil: Costa, José Vilton. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte; Brasil. ; Fil: Delgado, Alicia. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador; Ecuador. ; Fil: Freire, Flávio Henrique M. de A. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte; Brasil. ; Fil: Garay Villegas, Sagrario. Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León; México. ; Fil: Gómez León, Madelin. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya; España. ; Fil: Paredes Della Croce, Mariana. Universidad de la República; Uruguay. ; Fil: Peláez, Enrique. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales; Argentina. ; Fil: Peláez, Enrique. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudio sobre Cultura y Sociedad; Argentina. ; Fil: Peláez, Enrique. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Psicología; Argentina. ; Fil: Peláez, Enrique. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Psicología; Argentina. ; Fil: Rodríguez Rodríguez, Vicente. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; España. ; Fil: Rojo Pérez, Fermina. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; España. ; Fil: Silva Ramírez, Rafael. University of Montreal; Canadá.