Research Catalog

Title

Well-being of older people in ageing societies / Asghar Zaidi.

Author

Zaidi, M. Asghar.

Publication

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008.

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Description

318 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

How can we conceptualize and measure the personal well-being of older people? What future research agenda and policy reforms are necessary to maintain decent well-being for older people, in the context of aging populations? The great strides towards rising longevity made in recent times now pose challenges for policymakers worldwide. Facing unprecedented rises in social expenditures and needing to mitigate the moral hazard of poverty in old age, policymakers require a holistic understanding of the personal resources of older people. To this end, this book provides new insights, which draw on important new longitudinal datasets. Research is undertaken on three themes: the conceptualization and measurement of the multidimensional measures of older people's welfare; the income experience of older people during the aging process; and, the comparative analysis of income experience for older people who live under different institutional arrangements for pensions and social assistance, in the UK and the Netherlands.

Series Statement

Public policy and social welfare ; v. 30

Uniform Title

Public policy and social welfare ; v. 30.

Subject

• Age distribution (Demography) > Economic aspects
• Older people > Social conditions
• Alter
• Einkommen
• Wohlbefinden
• Altersstruktur
• Bevölkerungsentwicklung
• Alter
• Altern
• Soziale Situation
• Wohlbefinden
• Altersstruktur
• Äldre > sociala förhållanden

Note

• Originally presented as the author's thesis (D.Phil.)--University of Oxford, 2004.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Conceptualising well-being of older people -- Coupling of disadvantages: an assessment of income deprivation and limiting health in old age -- Income mobility in old age / with Katherine Rake and Jane Falkingham -- Snakes and ladders: covariates of income mobility in old age -- Income mobility of the elderly in Great Britain and the Netherlands: a comparative investigation / with Klaas de Vos -- Synthesizing discussion and conclusions.

ISBN

• 9780754675969
• 0754675963

LCCN

2009275642

OCLC

• ocn269433298
• 269433298
• SCSB-1506228

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library