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The Open Access version of this book, available at
www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This
volume presents a range of research approaches to the exploration
of ageing during a pandemic situation. One of the first collections
of its kind, it offers an array of studies employing research
methodologies that lend themselves to replication in similar
contexts by those seeking to understand the effects of epidemics on
older people. Thematically organised, it shows how to reconcile
qualitative and quantitative approaches, thus rendering them
complementary, bringing together studies from around the world to
offer an international perspective on ageing as it relates to an
unprecedented epidemiological phenomenon. As such, it will appeal
to researchers in the field of gerontology, as well as sociologists
of medicine and clinicians seeking to understand the disruptive
effects of the recent coronavirus outbreak on later life.
The United Nations Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing
(MIPAA) offers a bold new agenda for handling the issue of ageing
in the 21st-century. It focuses on three priority areas: older
persons and development; advancing health and well-being into old
age; and ensuring enabling and supportive environments. This book
brings together global perspectives on the MIPAA and focusses on
and assesses the success and failures of governments to implement
its recommendations. Despite its pivotal importance in
international ageing policy, the MIPAA has been relatively
neglected by academics in their writings and studies. This book
mitigates this analytical and empirical cavity. Each chapter
focuses on one specific geographical region and addresses five key
themes: National ageing situation; Twenty years of MIPAA; Ensuring
ageing with dignity; Healthy and active ageing in a sustainable
world; and Priorities for the future. It presents an overall
summary of the findings, future challenges and opportunities
related to ageing, recommendations for future actions to be taken,
and policy adjustments needed. The authors also present lessons
that were learnt from managing the impact of COVID-19 on older
people, together with an outlook on the most immediate priorities
for the future so that the recommendations in the MIPAA are
achieved in post-COVID-19 and sustainable ethical scenarios. An
important contribution towards the advancement of ageing policy,
the book will be indispensable to students and researchers of
gerontology, ageing, and health. It will also be of interest to
policy makers, geriatricians, dementia care specialists, social
policy makers responsible for ensuring active and healthy ageing,
and all public sector departments which have specific
responsibilities towards improving the quality of life of older
adults.
The United Nations Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing
(MIPAA) offers a bold new agenda for handling the issue of ageing
in the 21st-century. It focuses on three priority areas: older
persons and development; advancing health and well-being into old
age; and ensuring enabling and supportive environments. This book
brings together global perspectives on the MIPAA and focusses on
and assesses the success and failures of governments to implement
its recommendations. Despite its pivotal importance in
international ageing policy, the MIPAA has been relatively
neglected by academics in their writings and studies. This book
mitigates this analytical and empirical cavity. Each chapter
focuses on one specific geographical region and addresses five key
themes: National ageing situation; Twenty years of MIPAA; Ensuring
ageing with dignity; Healthy and active ageing in a sustainable
world; and Priorities for the future. It presents an overall
summary of the findings, future challenges and opportunities
related to ageing, recommendations for future actions to be taken,
and policy adjustments needed. The authors also present lessons
that were learnt from managing the impact of COVID-19 on older
people, together with an outlook on the most immediate priorities
for the future so that the recommendations in the MIPAA are
achieved in post-COVID-19 and sustainable ethical scenarios. An
important contribution towards the advancement of ageing policy,
the book will be indispensable to students and researchers of
gerontology, ageing, and health. It will also be of interest to
policy makers, geriatricians, dementia care specialists, social
policy makers responsible for ensuring active and healthy ageing,
and all public sector departments which have specific
responsibilities towards improving the quality of life of older
adults.
The Open Access version of this book, available at
www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This
volume presents a range of research approaches to the exploration
of ageing during a pandemic situation. One of the first collections
of its kind, it offers an array of studies employing research
methodologies that lend themselves to replication in similar
contexts by those seeking to understand the effects of epidemics on
older people. Thematically organised, it shows how to reconcile
qualitative and quantitative approaches, thus rendering them
complementary, bringing together studies from around the world to
offer an international perspective on ageing as it relates to an
unprecedented epidemiological phenomenon. As such, it will appeal
to researchers in the field of gerontology, as well as sociologists
of medicine and clinicians seeking to understand the disruptive
effects of the recent coronavirus outbreak on later life.
This comparative resource charts the interface between the
University of the Third Age (U3A) movement and active ageing, and
in doing so, offers a comprehensive and thorough understanding of
what U3A means in different geographical and sociocultural
contexts. After first providing introductory chapters to introduce
the U3A movement and active ageing in global perspective and
tracing the origins of U3As in France, the book sets off charting
the international development of U3As in both European and
Asian-Pacific contexts. Deliberately, the book moves away from the
dominant Anglo-centric US- and UK-rooted analyses of U3As to
account for contexts of different political ideology, sociocultural
values, geography, and degrees of urbanisation and
industrialisation. Lastly, it thematises foreseeable issues,
concerns, and predicaments that the global U3A movement faces while
meeting the challenges and seizing the opportunities presented by
active ageing. The chapters' comparative perspectives encompass:
Origins and development: The Francophone model of U3As The
development and characteristics of U3As in European and
Asian-Pacific geographies From social welfare to educational
gerontology: U3As in China, Russia, Taiwan, Malaysia and South
Korea U3As in Italy, Spain and Sweden: A dynamic, flexible, and
accessible learning model Late-life learning for social inclusion:
U3As in Poland, Iceland, United Kingdom, and Malta The U3A movement
in Australia: From statewide networking to community engagement
Cross-cultural perspectives on U3As: The case of Thailand The
University of the Third Age and Active Ageing boasts welcome
contributions to the scholarship on the different histories,
structures, and challenges posed by national U3As. Readers from a
variety of backgrounds and research interests including
gerontology, geriatrics, active ageing, older adult learning,
comparative education and educational technology will find this a
necessary and valuable resource in better understanding a
globalised U3A world. "The University of the Third Age and Active
Ageing: European and Asian-Pacific Perspectives contributes to the
deep well of histories, experiences, structures, accomplishments
and problems of national U3As. It emerges as a tapestry of
extraordinary research that offers to guide the U3A movement as it
soon enters its fiftieth year of existence." - Prof. Stephen Katz.
Trent University
Attention to social class is a major issue confronting the study of
ageing in the 21st century, yet it has been significantly
overlooked to date. Social class in later life provides the most
up-to-date collection of new and emerging research relevant to
contemporary debates on the relationship between class, culture,
and later life It explores the interface between class dynamics and
later life, whilst acting as a critical guide to the ways in which
age and class relations 'interlock' and 'intersect' with each
other, whilst examining the emergence of new forms of inequalities
alongside the interrogation of more traditional divisions. Social
class in later life brings together a range of international high
profile scholars to develop a more sophisticated, analytical and
empirical understanding of class dynamics in later life. It will be
of major interest to students and researchers examining the
implications of global ageing, and will appeal to scholars
concerned with the development of a more critical and engaged
gerontology.
This important book builds on recent publications in lifelong
learning which focus on learning and education in later life. This
work breaks new ground in international understandings of what
constitutes later life learning across diverse cultures in manifold
countries or regions across the world. Containing 42 separate
country/regional analyses of later life learning, the overall
significance resides in insiders' conceptualisations and critique
of this emerging sub-field of lifelong learning and adult
education. International perspectives on older adult education
provides new appreciation of what is happening in countries from
Europe (14), Africa (10), the Americas (7), Asia (9) and
Australasia (2), as authored by adult educators and/or social
gerontologists in respective geographical areas. These analyses are
contextualised by a thorough introduction and critical appraisal
where trends and fresh insights are revealed. The outcome of this
book is a never-before available critique of what it means to be an
older learner in specific nations, and the accompanying
opportunities and barriers for learning and education.The sub-title
of research, policy and practice conveys the territory that authors
traverse in which rhetoric and reality are interrogated. Coverage
in chapters includes conceptual analysis, historical patterns of
provision, policy developments, theoretical perspectives, research
studies, challenges faced by countries and "success stories" of
later life learning. The resultant effect is a vivid portrayal of a
vast array of learning that occurs in later life across the globe.
Brian Findsen is Professor of Education and Postgraduate Leader for
Te Whiringa School of Educational Leadership and Policy, Faculty of
Education, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.Marvin
Formosa is Head of the Department of Gerontology, Faculty for
Social Wellbeing, University of Malta, and Director of the
International Institute on Ageing (United Nations - Malta).
Attention to social class is a major issue confronting the study of
ageing in the 21st century, yet it has been significantly
overlooked to date. Social class in later life provides the most
up-to-date collection of new and emerging research relevant to
contemporary debates on the relationship between class, culture,
and later life It explores the interface between class dynamics and
later life, whilst acting as a critical guide to the ways in which
age and class relations 'interlock' and 'intersect' with each
other, whilst examining the emergence of new forms of inequalities
alongside the interrogation of more traditional divisions. Social
class in later life brings together a range of international high
profile scholars to develop a more sophisticated, analytical and
empirical understanding of class dynamics in later life. It will be
of major interest to students and researchers examining the
implications of global ageing, and will appeal to scholars
concerned with the development of a more critical and engaged
gerontology.
This comparative resource charts the interface between the
University of the Third Age (U3A) movement and active ageing, and
in doing so, offers a comprehensive and thorough understanding of
what U3A means in different geographical and sociocultural
contexts. After first providing introductory chapters to introduce
the U3A movement and active ageing in global perspective and
tracing the origins of U3As in France, the book sets off charting
the international development of U3As in both European and
Asian-Pacific contexts. Deliberately, the book moves away from the
dominant Anglo-centric US- and UK-rooted analyses of U3As to
account for contexts of different political ideology, sociocultural
values, geography, and degrees of urbanisation and
industrialisation. Lastly, it thematises foreseeable issues,
concerns, and predicaments that the global U3A movement faces while
meeting the challenges and seizing the opportunities presented by
active ageing. The chapters' comparative perspectives encompass:
Origins and development: The Francophone model of U3As The
development and characteristics of U3As in European and
Asian-Pacific geographies From social welfare to educational
gerontology: U3As in China, Russia, Taiwan, Malaysia and South
Korea U3As in Italy, Spain and Sweden: A dynamic, flexible, and
accessible learning model Late-life learning for social inclusion:
U3As in Poland, Iceland, United Kingdom, and Malta The U3A movement
in Australia: From statewide networking to community engagement
Cross-cultural perspectives on U3As: The case of Thailand The
University of the Third Age and Active Ageing boasts welcome
contributions to the scholarship on the different histories,
structures, and challenges posed by national U3As. Readers from a
variety of backgrounds and research interests including
gerontology, geriatrics, active ageing, older adult learning,
comparative education and educational technology will find this a
necessary and valuable resource in better understanding a
globalised U3A world. "The University of the Third Age and Active
Ageing: European and Asian-Pacific Perspectives contributes to the
deep well of histories, experiences, structures, accomplishments
and problems of national U3As. It emerges as a tapestry of
extraordinary research that offers to guide the U3A movement as it
soon enters its fiftieth year of existence." - Prof. Stephen Katz.
Trent University
Class Dynamics in Later Life examines the extent that older
persons, despite their estrangement from the productive process,
are still dynamically engaged in class structuring and action. It
argues that class remains a key differentiating factor in older
people's lives. Contrary to conventional assumptions which
presuppose that class mobility cannot occur unless retirees
re-enter the labour market, the book argues that class formation is
truly alive and kicking in later life.
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