The Future of Ageing in Europe: Making an Asset of Longevity

The Future of Ageing in Europe: Making an Asset of Longevity

Alan Walker (Editor)
$219.99
Publication Date: December 7th, 2018
Publisher:
Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:
9789811314162
Pages:
328
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Description

  1. Brings together for the first time all of the major policy challenges of ageing in one volume, making this text the key point of reference for anyone interested in the future of ageing in Europe, from students to policy makers.
  2. Features contributions from the leading researchers in the field.
  3. Foregrounds the current consequences of population ageing and provides a collective framework for future policy change
  4. Uses cutting-edge scientific approaches to investigate later life from multiple disciplinary perspectives

About the Author

Alan Walker is Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has been researching and writing on aspects of ageing and social policy for more than 40 years. He has directed several major national and European research programmes and projects. In 2007 he was given Lifetime Achievement Awards by both the Social Policy Association and the British Society of Gerontology. In 2011 he was awarded the European Association of Gerontology's first Medal and Honorary Diploma for Advances in Gerontology and Geriatrics (Social and Behavioural Sciences). He was the Economic and Social Research Councils' first Impact Champion in 2013, was appointed CBE for Services to Social Science in 2014, and made a Fellow of the Gerontology Society of American in 2016.