Overview
- Reviews the consequences of the ageing society
- Provides an epistemological view on the subject of old age
- Discusses the future trends of the ageing society
Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Aging (Int. Perspect. Aging, volume 34)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- new familiar and couple relationships
- Traditional gerontology perspective
- future of the humanity
- epistemological view on old age
- future trends of the ageing society
- consequences of the ageing society
- new social and identity models of older adults
- social precariousness, family disarray and old age
- Older people and COVID-19
- Bayesian estimation methods
- post-mutational society
- aging population
About this book
This book documents, verifies and brings to life the issues and debates that are created around the aging society. It carefully offers a series of opinions that attempt to illuminate the fact that the aging society goes beyond aging and includes a series of changes in terms of family, social ties, relationships, and the way human beings perceive society. The book contributes substantially to the discussion of this new type of aging, the new types of families, and the new types of relationships, as well as in the application of cutting-edge analytical strategies to understand the trends and patterns of these new modes of social structures.
The book includes detailed perspectives on how decisions need to be made, mindsets need to be changed, and precautions need to be taken to positively deal with these new realities. The evidence presented in this book suggests that if this does not happen, the danger of thanato-politics appears, which, denying reality, will lead humanity into difficult labyrinths, perhaps without any "Ariadne's thread" that will allow a glimpse of the way out.The translation from Spanish to English was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Alejandro Klein is a Research Professor at the Department of Governance & Development, Social Sciences and Humanities Faculty at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico, and Associate Professorial Fellow at The Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, UK. A trained psychologist, Dr Klein researches the socio-demographic issues facing the ageing populations of Latin America. He has a wealth of teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate levels including supervision of masters and doctoral degrees.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Opening up the Debate on the Aging Society
Book Subtitle: Preliminary Hypotheses for a Possible Mutational and Post-mutationary Society
Authors: Alejandro Klein
Series Title: International Perspectives on Aging
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11450-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11449-6Published: 04 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11452-6Published: 05 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-11450-2Published: 03 August 2022
Series ISSN: 2197-5841
Series E-ISSN: 2197-585X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 156
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Demography, Geriatrics/Gerontology, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging