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Handbook on Aging and Place
Edited by Malcolm Cutchin, Graham D. Rowles
Moving away from studies of aging in place, this forward-looking Handbook focuses on aging and place, offering a broader scope and more nuanced, complex and enlightening understanding of these two intertwined universals of human experien... -
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Maintaining a Sustainable Work-Life Balance
Edited by Peter Kruyen, Stéfanie André, Beatrice Van der Heijden
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This thought-provoking book provides a detailed exploration of work-life balance, considerin... -
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A Research Agenda for Ageing and Social Policy
Edited by Kai Leichsenring, Alexandre Sidorenko
Foreword by Alan Walker, Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology, University of Sheffield, UK Written by a global collective of scholars from a wide variety of backgrounds, including health studies, psychology and economics as... -
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Encyclopedia of Health Research in the Social Sciences
Edited by Kevin Dew, Sarah Donovan
Featuring state-of-the-art contributions from leading experts in their respective fields, the Encyclopedia of Health Research in the Social Sciences explores an extensive range of topics, concepts, research approaches and theoretical ori...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Advanced Introduction to Demography
Wolfgang Lutz
Highlighting the power of multi-dimensional demography, this Advanced Introduction addresses the most consequential changes in our societies and economies using quantitative approaches. It defines three demographic theories with predicti...eBook:Find out more$26.36
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The Political Economy of Ageing and Later Life
Edited by Alan Walker, Liam Foster
This timely new collection presents the most important and influential articles and papers on ageing and later life of the past half century. The editors examine policy creation and implementation, practice and critical gerontology inclu... -
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Personal Provision of Retirement Income
Edited by Jim Stewart, Gerard Hughes
In response to demographic change many countries in the European Union have reformed their pension systems. During the last two decades personal pensions have been introduced in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, ... -
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Home Care for Ageing Populations
Martha Doyle, Virpi Timonen
This book presents an up-to-date comparative analysis of domiciliary care policies for the older populations of Denmark, the United States and Germany with a particular focus on similarities and differences between these care regimes. -
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New Developments in the Economics of Population Ageing
Edited by John Creedy, Ross Guest
This volume provides an important collection of recent papers on the macroeconomic effects of population ageing. The articles are focused into three categories which cover the main channels through which population ageing affects nationa... -
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Pensions, Savings and Capital Flows
Helmut Reisen
This book explores the international aspects of pension reform, private savings and volatile capital markets and clarifies how they relate to each other. Building the case for the pension-improving benefits of global asset diversificati... -
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The Political Economy of Population Ageing
William A. Jackson
Population ageing has been the subject of much discussion in recent years, often expressed in alarmist language that advocates evasive policy action to avert an imminent demographic crisis. This forward-looking book evaluates the debate... -
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Pensions and Population Ageing
John Creedy
The analysis of pensions presents many complex problems. A major aim of this book is to demonstrate how reasonably simple economic models can be designed and used to shed some light on the issues involved in population growth and pension...