Ageing through Austerity : : Critical Perspectives from Ireland / / ed. by Kieran Walsh, Gemma M. Carney, Áine Ní Léime.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Complete eBook-Package 2015
• MitwirkendeR: Cahill, Suzanne,; Callan, Aoife,; Carney, Gemma M.,; Connolly, Sheelah,; Duvvury, Nata,; Léime, Áine Ní,; O’Shea, Eamon,; Phillipson, Chris,; Pierce, Maria,; Scharf, Thomas,; Walker, Alan,; Walsh, Kieran,
• HerausgeberIn: Carney, Gemma M.,; Ní Léime, Áine,; Walsh, Kieran,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

Demographic ageing is identified as a global challenge with significant social policy implications. This book explores these implications, with a particular focus on the pressures and prospects for ageing societies in the context of austerity. The book presents a carefully crafted study of ageing in Ireland, one of the countries hardest hit by the Eurozone financial crisis. Providing a close, critical analysis of ageing and social policy that draws directly on the perspectives of older people, the text makes significant advances in framing alternatives to austerity-driven government policy and neoliberalism, giving a refreshing interdisciplinary account of contemporary ageing.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction – social policy and ageing through austerity -- Contextualising ageing in Ireland -- Citizenship in an age of austerity: towards a constructive politics of ageing -- Active ageing: social participation and volunteering in later life -- Pension provision, gender, ageing and work in Ireland -- Interrogating the ‘age-friendly community’ in austerity: myths, realities and the influence of place context -- Reframing policy for dementia -- Between inclusion and exclusion in later life -- Conclusion – beyond austerity: critical issues for future policy -- Austerity policies and new forms of solidarity -- References -- Index