Overview
- Examines the social aspects of healthy ageing for older individuals living in America, Europe, Asia, and Africa in various contexts
- Features more than 15 papers written by expert researchers that offer a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject
- Offers implications and recommendations for research and practice
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Aging (Int. Perspect. Aging, volume 11)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Social capital and health as a resource for the individual
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Social Capital and Health in the Neighbourhood Context
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Social Capital and Health in Various Countries
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Implications and Recommendations for Research and Practice
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About this book
This book examines the social aspects of healthy ageing for older individuals. It features more than 15 papers that explore the relevance of the social environment for health on the micro, meso, and macro level. Overall, the book applies a comprehensive contextual approach that includes discussion of how family and friends, neighborhoods, nations, and welfare regimes influence health.
The book first explores the issue on the individual level. It looks at the importance of social capital for health among older people, examines types of social networks and health among older Americans, as well as discusses dynamic social capital and mental health in late life.
Next, the book looks at the issue through a neighborhood and societal context, which takes into account day-to-day interaction in the immediate environment as well as the social, health, and economic policies in place in different regions in the world, including America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
From there, the book goes on to offer implications and recommendations for research and practice, including the management of related concepts of research on well-being and health. It also offers a psychosocial approach to promoting social capital and mental health among older adults.
This book provides health professionals as well as researchers and students in gerontology, sociology, social policy, psychology, and social work with vital insights into the social factors that increase healthy life years and promote well-being.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Capital as a Health Resource in Later Life: The Relevance of Context
Editors: Fredrica Nyqvist, Anna K. Forsman
Series Title: International Perspectives on Aging
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9615-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9614-9Published: 20 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0712-9Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9615-6Published: 20 February 2015
Series ISSN: 2197-5841
Series E-ISSN: 2197-585X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 267
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Aging, Geriatrics/Gerontology