Ageing Europe
What role do senior citizens have in European society in the late twentieth century? Retirement is no longer the straightforward entry point to old age it once was. More and more people throughout Europe are leaving the labour force in different ways. At the same time older people are living longer and healthier lives, forcing back the threshold of frailty. This book presents findings from recent policy oriented research undertaken by the EU's Observatory on Ageing and Older People; the most definitive account to date of socio-economic policies affecting older people and the extent of their social integration in European society. The book als…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Walker, Lawrie
- ISBN: 978-0-335-19746-0
- EAN: 9780335197460
- Produktnummer: 8124630
- Verlag: Open Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.9 cm 222 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 222
Über den Autor
Alan Walker is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Sheffield. Chair of the European Observatory on Ageing and Older People. Author of numerous books, reports and scientific papers on ageing and social policy, including The Caring Relationship (with H. Qureshi, Macmillan, 1989); The New Generational Contract (edited, UCL Press, 1996); and Changing Services for Older People (with L. Warren, OU Press, 1996).Tony Maltby is Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Birmingham. He contributes regularly as an abstractor for the journal Ageing and Society on European issues and is the author of Women and Pensions in Britain and Hungary (Avebury, 1994). His main research interest is the comparative study of pensions and income in later life. He is a member of the executive of the British Society of Gerontology and its Honorary Treasurer.
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