This Handbook presents established and innovative perspectives on involving older adults as co-creators in ageing research. It reorients research and policy toward more inclusive and adequate designs that capture the voices and needs of older adults. The Handbook: introduces types of participatory approaches in ageing research; highlights key methodological aspects of these approaches; gives insights from projects across different cultural contexts and academic disciplines, showing ways in which older participants can be involved in co-designing different stages of the research cycle; examines key issues to consider when involving older participants at each step of the research process; includes the voices of older adults directly; draws out conclusions and points ways forward for future research. This Handbook will be essential reading for researchers and students interested in the field of ageing and/or participatory methods, as well as for those policy stakeholders in the fields of ageing and demographic change, social and public policy, or health and wellbeing who are interested in involving older adults in policy processes. It will be useful for third sector advocacy organisations and international non-governmental and public agencies working either in citizen involvement/participation or the ageing sector.

Der Band diskutiert Implikationen der Transdisziplinarität für die Bildungsforschung und zeigt die darin angelegten Grenzen und Grenzüberschreitungen auf. Er reflektiert aktuelle Themen- und Problemstellungen, die sich mit Blick auf die heterogenen Perspektiven in bildungs- und erziehungswissenschaftlichen Disziplinen zu Transdisziplinarität ergeben. So stehen theoretische, method(olog)ische und empirische Grenzgänge im Fokus, die sowohl mit einer Eingebundenheit in spezifische fachliche Disziplinen und die daran geknüpften wissenschaftstheoretischen Positionen als auch mit der Notwendigkeit eines Blickens ‚über den Tellerrand hinaus’ einhergehen. Ziel ist es, Bezüge, Anleihen und Anknüpfungspunkte, Unschärfen, Irritationen, Voraussetzungen und Herausforderungen für eine transdisziplinäre Bildungsforschung aufzuspüren und abzubilden.

Drawing on interdisciplinary, cross-national perspectives, this open access book contributes to the development of a coherent scientific discourse on social exclusion of older people. The book considers five domains of exclusion (services; economic; social relations; civic and socio-cultural; and community and spatial domains), with three chapters dedicated to analysing different dimensions of each exclusion domain. The book also examines the interrelationships between different forms of exclusion, and how outcomes and processes of different kinds of exclusion can be related to one another. In doing so, major cross-cutting themes, such as rights and identity, inclusive service infrastructures, and displacement of marginalised older adult groups, are considered. Finally, in a series of chapters written by international policy stakeholders and policy researchers, the book analyses key policies relevant to social exclusion and older people, including debates linked to sustainable development, EU policy and social rights, welfare and pensions systems, and planning and development. The book's approach helps to illuminate the comprehensive multidimensionality of social exclusion, and provides insight into the relative nature of disadvantage in later life. With 77 contributors working across 28 nations, the book presents a forward-looking research agenda for social exclusion amongst older people, and will be an important resource for students, researchers and policy stakeholders working on ageing.