E-book
The futures of old age
Record details
- ISBN: 1446211533
- ISBN: 9781446211533
- ISBN: 1412901081
- ISBN: 9781412901086
- ISBN: 1412901073
- ISBN: 9781412901079
- ISBN: 1849202753
- ISBN: 9781849202756
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xv, 255 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2006.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Published in association with BSG." |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-245) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Visions of later life : golden cohort to generation Z / Andrew Blaikie -- Future 'conflicts' across generations and cohorts? / Vern L. Bengtson and Norella M. Putney -- Developments in the life course / Dale Dannefer and Casey Miklowski -- Ageing and social class : an enduring relationship / Alan Walker and Liam Foster -- Gender and later life : change, choice and constraints / Sara Arber -- Ethnicity and old age / James Nazroo -- The future of inequalities in retirement income / Debora Price and Jay Ginn -- Will the baby-boomers be better off than their parents in retirement? / Maria Evandrou and Jane Falkingham -- The future of stock-market pensions / Richard Minns -- Ageing selves and others : distinctiveness and uniformity in the struggle for intergenerational solidarity / Simon Biggs -- Biographical work and the future of the ageing self / Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein -- Ageing and belief : between tradition and change / Peter G. Coleman, Marie A. Mills and Peter Speck -- Will our old age be healthier? / Christina Victor -- Is there a better future for people with dementia and their families? / Murna Downs and Errollyn Bruce -- The future of well-being : quality of life of older people in the twenty-first century / John Bond and Lynne Corner -- The ageing of family life transitions / Sarah Harper -- Flying solo in old age : widowed and divorced men and women in later life / Kate Davidson -- Housing and future living arrangements / Sheila Peace -- Anti-ageing science and the future of old age / John Vincent -- Ageing and globalization / Chris Phillipson -- The future life course, migration and old age / Tony Warnes. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Subject: | Older people -- Social conditions Old age Retirement Older people -- Economic conditions Older people -- Health and hygiene |
| Genre: | Electronic book. Electronic books. Electronic books. |
