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ОглавлениеContents
List of tables, figures and boxes
Glossary of terms
About the authors
Acknowledgements
Preface
1 What is population ageing? (Demography)
Introduction
Our approach
Outline of chapters
What is population ageing?
Myths and facts about population ageing
Why is population ageing a big deal?
Population ageing in the context of population change
Population pyramids
A final thought
Review exercise 1
2 When am I officially past it? The ageist zeitgeist (Ageism and ageist stereotyping)
Introduction
What is an attitude?
What is ageism against older people?
How do we acquire attitudes?
What are stereotypes and why do we use them?
Is it all doom and gloom?
A final thought
Review exercise 2
3 Will I ever have enough money to retire? (Retirement, active ageing and working longer)
Introduction
Pensions
A brief history of pensions in the UK
The concept of the dependency ratio
Neoliberalising retirement
Does everybody get a pension?
Pension reform
Active and successful ageing (and their many detractors)
Work, retirement and the institutionalised lifecourse
Extending working lives: supply of and demand for older workers
A final thought
Review exercise 3
4 Will I need care when I am old? (Care and support in later life)
Introduction
Physiological changes that may accompany ageing
World Health Organization approach to healthy ageing
Long-term care
Who cares for whom?
Quality of care
A final thought
Review exercise 4
5 All old people are pretty much the same, aren’t they? (Diversity among the ageing population)
Introduction
Sexual orientation and gender identity
An overview of minority ageing
Diversity and dementia
New ageing populations
A final thought
Review exercise 5
6 Aren’t gender differences neutralised by age? (Gender)
Introduction
Why do women live longer than men?
How do pension and care policies affect women and men?
Intersectionality: men, women and ageism
Studying women versus using a feminist framework
Masculinity: sometimes it is hard to be a man …
A final thought
Review exercise 6
7 Why do older people have it so good? (The myth of intergenerational conflict)
Introduction
What is a ‘generation’?
That’s generation – now what about solidarity?
Lessons from other crises
Neoliberalism and the myth of generational conflict
Grandparenting
A final thought
Review exercise 7
8 Why do older people vote, while younger people protest? (Politics of ageing)
Introduction
The political roots of population ageing as a policy problem
Social policy demands of the 21st century
Political demography: linking population change to government and politics
Are we heading towards an era of ‘gerontocracy’?
A final thought
Review exercise 8
9 What does it mean to live a long life? (Cultural gerontology)
Introduction
Cultures of Ageing
Human ageing: rational, scientific management of old age
Cultural critique of the ‘narrative of decline’
Material culture: the ‘Lively project’
The re-embodiment of old age
A final thought
Review exercise 9
10 What are my next steps? (Conclusions, reflections and actions)
Introduction
Chapter overview
Pulling it all together: themes and issues for further research
Language and the moral economy of ageing
11 Now that you know about ageing … (Additional questions and revision)
Questions
Chapter 1: Demography
Chapter 2: Ageism and ageist stereotyping
Chapter 3: Retirement, active ageing and working longer
Chapter 4: Care and support in later life
Chapter 5: Diversity among the ageing population
Chapter 6: Gender
Chapter 7: The myth of intergenerational conflict
Chapter 8: Politics of ageing
Chapter 9: Cultural gerontology
Answers
Chapter 1: Demography
Chapter 2: Ageism and ageist stereotyping
Chapter 3: Retirement, active ageing and working longer
Chapter 4: Care and support in later life
Chapter 5: Diversity among the ageing population
Chapter 6: Gender
Chapter 7: The myth of intergenerational conflict
Chapter 8: Politics of ageing
Chapter 9: Cultural gerontology
Appendix 1: Review exercise 1 – detailed instructions on constructing a population pyramid
Appendix 2: World Health Organization liveability framework domains
Appendix 3: Care Quality Commission fundamental standards
References
