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The COVID-19 pandemic posed a major threat to the well-being of
older Europeans. Its economic and social effects, however, varied
across countries. This multidisciplinary book presents the first
results of analyses that combined the renowned longitudinal
database of SHARE with new data from two telephone surveys that
were uniquely conducted during the pandemic. The analyses address
important policy-related issues, such as: Did social
distancing destabilize family and social support networks? Did
the pandemic increase health, social and economic inequality? Who
had to forego essential health care because of the pandemic? Did
lockdown affect one’s physical and mental health? Did the shift
towards remote work affect workload and well-being?
Were different housing conditions related to the spread of the
virus?  
SHARE is an international survey designed to answer the societal
challenges that face us due to rapid population ageing. How do we
Europeans age? How will we do economically, socially and
healthwise? How are these domains interrelated? The authors of this
multidisciplinary book have taken a further big step towards
answering these questions based on the recent SHARE data in order
to support policies for an inclusive society.
SHARE is an international survey designed to answer the societal
challenges that face us due to rapid population ageing. How do
Europeans age? Under which circumstances do older people and their
families live, how healthy and active are they, and how did the
crisis affect them? The authors of this multidisciplinary book have
taken a first step toward answering these questions based on the
recent SHARE data including a new social networks module.
Health in later life is shaped by behavior and policies over the
life course and reflects the differences between the societies in
which we are ageing. This multidisciplinary book answers questions
from all life course phases and its interconnections from a
European perspective based on the most recent SHARE data, such as:
How is our health related to personality traits and influenced by
our childhood conditions and careers? Which role does our social
network play? Which impacts of the different health care and
societal regimes can we trace at older ages? Which are the
differences and similarities across European countries?
The great recession is changing the way many people live and the
way they perceive their prospects for the near and more distant
future. Its longer term consequences will not be known for some
time, but something can be learned from the effect on individuals
and households who experienced financial hardship. This volume is
the first to use innovative survey data on the lives of Europeans
to investigate the long term impact of financial hardship on
earnings, standards of living, and health. The data provide a
detailed account of the key events that have taken place over the
course of the recession. It compares the well-being of individuals
who were lucky to escape negative shocks to their income or their
circumstances to the less fortunate who may have lost their job,
faced divorce, or serious illness. The wide array of welfare state
and social support provisions across different European countries
adds an important policy angle to the analysis: has the welfare
state, currently under heavy pressure, been able to provide an
adequate safety net in the face of extended periods of financial
difficulties, or has the family instead proven the ultimate source
of support in difficult times?
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