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The subject matter of this Handbook deals with one of the most challenging issues for societies in the 21st Century, namely, the social, economic and cultural changes associated with individual ageing and the rapidly growing reality of the ageing of human populations. The SAGE Handbook of Social Gerontology provides a comprehensive overview of key trends and issues in the field of ageing, drawing upon the full range of social science disciplines. The volume reflects the emergence of ageing as a global concern, drawing upon international scholars from Asia, Australasia, Europe and North America. The book is organized into five parts, each exploring different aspects of research into social aspects of ageing: · Disciplinary overviews: summaries of findings from key disciplinary areas within social gerontology · Social relationships and social differences: topics include social inequality, gender, religion, inter-generational ties, social networks, and friendships in later life. · Individual characteristics and change in later life: examining different aspects of individual aging, including self and identity, cognitive processes, and biosocial interactions and their impact on physical and psychological aging · Comparative perspectives and cultural innovations: topics include ageing and development, ageing in a global context, migration, and cross-cultural perspectives on grandparenthood · Policy issues: topics include: developments in social policy, long-term care, technology and older people, end of life issues, work and retirement, crime and older people, and the politics of old age. It will be essential reading for all students, researchers and policy-makers concerned with the major issues influencing the lives of older people across the globe.
Acknowledgements
This book is the product of dedicated work and deep collaboration, between many skilled and supportive colleagues - authors and editors, as well as critical readers and support staff. Without such collaboration, the volume would not have been possible to produce. We would like first to express our appreciation to the authors of these chapters, on whose cutting-edge expertise, careful scholarship the entire project rests. We would also like to thank those on both sides of the Atlantic, whose names are not so visible, but whose work has been critical, to the completion of this project. For work done in the USA, thanks go above all to Debra Klocker and also to Michelle Rizzuto in the Department of Sociology at CWRU. We also relied on the editorial expertise of Dale Dannefer's research assistants, Mary Ellen Stone, and Sherri Brown. For editorial work in the UK, many thanks to Sheila Allen, Sue Humphries and Jenny Liddle at Keele University, who provided substantial help and support. Finally, we are immensely grateful to Sage who have kept faith with the project and who have been consistently helpful and encouraging at all phases of the work.
Table 5.1 United Nations (2007) World Population Ageing 2007. Department of Economic and Social Affairs/Population Division. New York: United Nations. Reprinted with permission.
Table 5.2 United Nations (2007) World Population Ageing 2007. Department of Economic and Social Affairs/Population Division. New York: United Nations. Reprinted with permission.
Table 5.3 United Nations (2007) World Population Ageing 2007. Department of Economic and Social Affairs/Population Division. New York: United Nations. Reprinted with permission.
Table 5.8 United Nations (2005) The Living Arrangements of Older People Around the World. Department of Economic and Social Affairs/Population Division. New York: United Nations. (Available at http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/livingarrangement/covernote.pdf). Reprinted with permission.
Table 5.9 United Nations (2005) The Living Arrangements of Older People Around the World. Department of Economic and Social Affairs/Population Division. New York: United Nations. (Available at http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/livingarrangement/covernote.pdf). Reprinted with permission.
Table 5.10 United Nations (2005) The Living Arrangements of Older People Around the World. Department of Economic and Social Affairs/Population Division. New York: United Nations. (Available at http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/livingarrangement/covernote.pdf). Reprinted with permission.
Tables 15.1 United Nations (2002) World Population Aging 1950–2050. Department of Economics and Social Affairs, Population Division. Reprinted with permission.
Table 15.3 United Nations (2002) World Population Aging 1950–2050. Department of Economics and Social Affairs, Population Division. Reprinted with permission.
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