Overview
- Cross-disciplinary roster of expert contributors
- Examples from diverse European societies illustrating innovative methodological approaches to working with diverse elderly populations
Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Aging (Int. Perspect. Aging, volume 6)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Between longer life expectancies and declining birth rates, Europe’s elder population is growing into a sizable minority with considerable impact on nations, health systems, and economies—in other words, global implications as well as local and regional ones. Those investing in the health of older adults need a double perspective: the social and clinical complexity of aging and the larger forces shaping these experiences.
Aging in European Societies examines aging trends across the continent, analyzing individual and collective variables that affect the lives of older adults, and drawing salient comparisons with other parts of the world. An interdisciplinary panel of experts provides theory, research, and empirical findings (with examples from the UK, Cyprus, Sweden, and others) in key areas such as family and social supports, physical and cognitive changes, dependence and autonomy issues, and living arrangements. The book’s wide-net approach offers insights into not only aging, but aging well. And of particular importance, it details approaches to defining and measuring the elusive but crucial concept, quality of life. Included in the coverage:
- The potential for technology to improve elders’ quality of life.
- Dementia and quality of life issues.
- Changes in functional ability with aging and over time.
- Family networks and supports in older age.
- Factors influencing inequalities in quality of life.
- Late-life learning in the E.U.
Gerontologists, sociologists, health and cross-cultural psychologists, and public health policymakers will welcome Aging in European Societies as a springboard toward continued discussion, new directions for research, and improvements in policy and practice.
Reviews
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“I enjoyed and highly recommend this book. It provides an in-depth understanding of aging in Europe by combining scientific literature, data sources, analyses, and topics of discussion about aging in other contexts. Social policy makers and practitioners and scholars in gerontology, within the broad framework of social sciences, economics, psychology, and social work, as well as health and technological innovation designed for the elderly, will increase their knowledge through the practices and research results presented in this book.” (Fermina Rojo-Pérez, Applied Research in Quality of Life, Vol. 8, 2013)Editors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Aging in European Societies
Book Subtitle: Healthy Aging in Europe
Editors: Constantinos Phellas
Series Title: International Perspectives on Aging
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8345-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-8344-2Published: 28 September 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8804-1Published: 15 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-8345-9Published: 02 October 2012
Series ISSN: 2197-5841
Series E-ISSN: 2197-585X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 288
Topics: Aging, Public Health, Population Economics, Demography, Quality of Life Research