The Future of Ageing in Europe

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Alan Walker

   Pages 1-28

3. Strategies of Active Ageing in Europe

   • Alan Walker, Asghar Zaidi

   Pages 29-52

4. Achieving Economic Sustainability in Ageing Societies

   • Tarmo Johannes Valkonen, Mikkel Christoffer Barslund

   Pages 53-77

5. Effective and Sustainable Private Pensions

   • Theo Nijman, Arthur van Soest

   Pages 79-106

6. Extending Working Lives

   • Gerhard Naegele, Jürgen Bauknecht

   Pages 107-142

7. Healthy Life Years and Social Engagement

   • Dorly J. H. Deeg, Marie-Louise Boertje, Henrike Galenkamp

   Pages 143-176

8. Improving Health in Later Life: How a Life Course Approach Could Improve Health and Well-Being in Old Age

   • Carmen Giefing-Kröll, Beatrix Grubeck-Loebenstein

   Pages 177-215

9. Technology for All

   • Sebastian Merkel, Rolf G. Heinze, Josef Hilbert, Gerhard Naegele

   Pages 217-253

10. Social Support and Long-Term Care for Older People: The Potential for Social Innovation and Active Ageing

    • Katharine Schulmann, Monika Reichert, Kai Leichsenring

    Pages 255-286

11. Promoting the Political Inclusion and Participation of Older People: Social, Psychological and Institutional Perspectives

    • Amílcar Moreira, Mikkel Barslund

    Pages 287-307

12. Conclusion: Realising Active Ageing

    • Alan Walker

    Pages 309-328

This book provides the most comprehensive analysis available of the challenges created by Europe’s ageing population. Grounded in state-of-the-art scientific assessments by leading European researchers, the book is strongly policy focused. Indeed this book contains a detailed account of the policies required across a broad field, from economic sustainability and extending working lives, to healthy ageing, technological innovation, long term care and political citizenship, for the successful adaptation to the challenges of ageing in Europe and globally. It is a policy manifesto to ensure that the future of ageing in Europe is transformed into a highly beneficial one for both citizens and societies.

• gerontology
• social policy
• Ageing and society
• European studies
• Population Dynamics
• ICT's
• Digital health
• biogerontology
• welfare systems
• health care
• inter-generational relations
• Sustainable Pensions
• gerontocracy

“A ‘must-read’ for active politicians and policymakers. … The Future of Ageing in Europe. Making an Asset of Longevity is organised in a different way. The reader will find that it covers a variety of, often unrelated, fields. … The book is full of prognoses and predictions grounded in current knowledge and research. The research results are presented clearly and are well summarised in tables and charts, which enable reader easily to familiarise themselves with the presented data and results.” (Radosław Mędrzycki, European Journal of Social Security, Vol. 21 (4), 2019)

• Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

  Alan Walker

Alan Walker is Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has been researching and writing on aspects of ageing and social policy for more than 40 years. He has directed several major national and European research programmes and projects. In 2007 he was given Lifetime Achievement Awards by both the Social Policy Association and the British Society of Gerontology. In 2011 he was awarded the European Association of Gerontology’s first Medal and Honorary Diploma for Advances in Gerontology and Geriatrics (Social and Behavioural Sciences). He was the Economic and Social Research Councils’ first Impact Champion in 2013, was appointed CBE for Services to Social Science in 2014, and made a Fellow of the Gerontology Society of American in 2016.

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