Active and successful ageing (and their many detractors)
Work, retirement and the institutionalised lifecourse
Extending working lives: supply of and demand for older workers
4 Will I need care when I am old? (Care and support in later life)
Physiological changes that may accompany ageing
World Health Organization approach to healthy ageing
5 All old people are pretty much the same, aren’t they? (Diversity among the ageing population)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
An overview of minority ageing
6 Aren’t gender differences neutralised by age? (Gender)
Why do women live longer than men?
How do pension and care policies affect women and men?
Intersectionality: men, women and ageism
Studying women versus using a feminist framework
Masculinity: sometimes it is hard to be a man …
7 Why do older people have it so good? (The myth of intergenerational conflict)
That’s generation – now what about solidarity?
Neoliberalism and the myth of generational conflict
8 Why do older people vote, while younger people protest? (Politics of ageing)
The political roots of population ageing as a policy problem
Social policy demands of the 21st century
Political demography: linking population change to government and politics
Are we heading towards an era of ‘gerontocracy’?
9 What does it mean to live a long life? (Cultural gerontology)