A world growing old /
For the first time in mankind's history, the world's population is ageing. Decade by decade, people are living longer than they ever have before. For rich countries in the west, the problems are obvious---economies rely on youthful populations to provide for those who have retired. As the...
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Pluto Press,
2003
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Table of Contents:
- Responses to ageing
- Status of the elderly
- Life expectancy and globalisaton
- Replacing the generations
- The youth of migrants
- Who are the elderly?
- The cost of ageing
- Replenishing the population
- The West and the rest
- Issues on ageing
- Becoming old
- How societies deal with ageing
- Ageing in the rich world
- Ageing in poor societies
- Ageing and development
- The testimony of individuals
- Worked to death
- Falling life expectancy in Africa
- The burdens of the elderly
- The enabling state
- The pensions crisis in Britain
- The retreat of the state
- Widowhood
- Witchcraft and older women
- Remembering ...
- ... and forgetting
- Sex in old age
- Ageing and sexual minorities
- 'This is not my world'
- Poverty in old age
- Old age and traumatic social circumstances
- An ageing world: relations between North and South
- The United States
- China
- Laos
- Vietnam
- South Africa
- The case of Germany
- Active ageing
- How have the elderly changed
- Pensioners and the retired
- Elder abuse
- Crime and the elderly
- A world growing old
- Ageing cultures
- Testimonies of the elderly
- Conclusion.
