Ageing through Austerity : : Critical Perspectives from Ireland / / ed. by Kieran Walsh, Gemma M. Carney, Áine Ní Léime.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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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