Overview
- This open access book defines the capability approach from contrasting perspectives
- Provides examples on how the capability approach can be used in different studies
- Provides a truly multidisciplinary approach with contributions from epidemiology, psychology, sociology, political science and much more
Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Aging (Int. Perspect. Aging, volume 31)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Open access
- Centre for Ageing and Health in Sweden
- Time trends and capability
- Work/retirement and capability
- Cognition and capability in older adults
- Health, frailty and capability in older adults
- Multidisciplinary research methods
- Participation, representation of older adults
- Self-determination and capability of older adults
- Capability - ability to perform actions in order to reach goals
- Cumulative advantage/disadvantage
- Capability in the ageing process
- Overall functioning and participation in societal life
- How to interpret capability in ageing
- Persons affected with dementia
- Ratio of retired persons to those still in the labor market
- Vast increase in the population aged >65 years
- Understanding ageing through a multidisciplinary approach
- AgeCap
About this book
This open access book provides insight on how to interpret capability in ageing – one’s individual ability to perform actions in order to reach goals one has reason to value – from a multidisciplinary approach. With for the first time in history there being more people in the world aged 60 years and over than there are children below the age of 5, the book describes this demographic trends as well as the large global challenges and important societal implications this will have such as a worldwide increase in the number of persons affected with dementia, and in the ratio of retired persons to those still in the labor market. Through contributions from many different research areas, it discussed how capability depends on interactions between the individual (e.g. health, genetics, personality, intellectual capacity), environment (e.g. family, friends, home, work place), and society (e.g. political decisions, ageism, historical period). The final chapter summarizes the differencesand similarities in these contributions. As such this book provides an interesting read for students, teachers and researchers at different levels and from different fields interested in capability and multidisciplinary research.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ulrika Lagerlöf Nilsson (PhD, TD) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Historical studies and a senior researcher at Age Cap – Center of Ageing and Health at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research has mainly focused on gender and power in the field of health care professions during the late 19thand 20th century. Her currently research is dealing with age and ageing in a historical perspective, focusing specifically on the development of elderly care.
Therese Rydberg Sterner (PhD) is a researcher at Age Cap – Center of Ageing and Health at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. Her work focuses specifically on depression in relation to behavioural and biological risks and protective factors in large population-based samples of older adults.
Ingmar Skoog (MD) is a Professor in Psychiatry and Director of Age Cap – Center of Ageing and Health at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. His research focuses mainly on neuro degenerative disorders in older adults, behavioral risks and protective factors in large population-based samples of older adults that have been followed with nearly identical health examinations for more than 40 years.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Capability in Age and Ageing
Editors: Hanna Falk Erhag, Ulrika Lagerlöf Nilsson, Therese Rydberg Sterner, Ingmar Skoog
Series Title: International Perspectives on Aging
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78063-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78062-3Published: 11 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78065-4Published: 11 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-78063-0Published: 10 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2197-5841
Series E-ISSN: 2197-585X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 252
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Demography, Population Economics, Public Health