Population ageing from a lifecourse perspective : critical and international approaches /

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Populations around the globe age. For Western countries, this demographic shift is one of the biggest current challenges, challenging individual life plans, family arrangements, market structures, care provisions, and the financial basis of pension schemes. This volume uses the life-course perspecti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Komp, Kathrin (edited.), Johansson, Stina (edited.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2015.
Colección:Ageing and the lifecourse.
Temas:
Population aging.
Vieillissement de la population.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gerontology.
Population aging
Åldrandet.
Demografi.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • One. Introduction / Stina Johansson
  • pt. I Theoretical framework
  • Two. A demographer's view: population structures tell a story about lifecourses / Scott M. Lynch
  • Three. A lifecourse scholar's view: lifecourses crystallise in demographic structures / Andreas Motel-Klingebiel
  • pt. II Critical perspectives
  • Four. Generations in ageing Finland: finding your place in the demographic structure / Ilkka Haapola
  • Five. Gender in ageing Portugal: following the lives of men and women / Sofia Aboim
  • Six. Socioeconomic status in ageing Poland: a question of cumulative advantages and disadvantages / Justyna Stypinska
  • Seven. Ethnicity in ageing America: a tale of cultures and lifecourse / Anna C. Smedley
  • Eight. The urban
  • rural split in ageing Australia: diverging lifecourses, diverging experiences / Jeni Warbuton
  • pt. III Practical implications
  • Nine. The individual in ageing Germany: how the self-employed plan for their old age / Annette Franke
  • Ten. Families in ageing Netherlands and ageing China: redefining intergenerational contracts in lengthened lives / Zhen Cong
  • Eleven. Social care in ageing Sweden: learning from the life stories of care recipients / Stina Johansson
  • Twelve. The labour market in ageing Sweden: lifecourse influences on workforce participation / Daniel Larsson
  • Thirteen. The state in ageing Canada: from old-age policies to lifecourse policies / Patrik Marier
  • pt. IV Discussion and conclusion
  • Fourteen. Discussion and conclusion / Kathrin Komp.

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