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Home Alone: Demography and Ageing
Home Alone: Demography and Ageing
This Chapter
- Documents the changing demographic profile of the UK
- Outlines the key policy issues informing the politics and economics of old age
- Evaluates the new dependency relations between generations when caring for self, children and grandchildren
- Analyses the active leisure lifestyles of retired people
- Provides a case study of ballroom dancing.
Demography
In the past 35 years the proportion of the UK population aged over 65 has grown by 31%, from 7.4 to 9.7 million, and the Office for National Statistics predicts this figure will double in the next 20 years and treble in the next 30 (Garfield, 2008). Life expectancy at the start of the nineteenth century was less that forty years; over the past half century life expectancy has ...
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