Overview
- Addresses the new challenges of ageing all over the world, from the paradigm of a positive ageing (active, healthy, successful) for a better quality of later life
- Includes domain-specific and geographical contributions on the importance of an ageing society around the world
- Provides theoretical perspectives and empirical studies, including scientific knowledge and also practical experiences about the good ageing and the quality in later life around the world
Part of the book series: International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life (IHQL)
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Table of contents (39 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives
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Social Policy Issues and Research Agenda
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Methods, Measurement Instruments-Scales, Evaluations
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Keywords
- Active Aging and Quality of Life
- Quality of Life of Older People
- Generativity in Later Life
- Developmental Social Policy and Active Aging
- Transnational Aging and Healthy Aging
- Measuring the Impact of Active Aging
- Ageing and Gender
- Flourishing and Languishing of Individuals
- Quality of Life of Older People in South Africa
- Ageing and Well-Being in Australia
- Ageing and Well-Being in Canada
- Achieving Active Ageing in Europe
- Active Aging and Care
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Fermina Rojo-Perez is a Research Scientist at the Institute of Economics, Geography and Demography (IEGD), in the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain. She carries out her work in the Research Group on Ageing (GIE-CSIC) and belongs to the Spanish Research Group on Quality of Life and Ageing (CSIC and ISCIII) as a multidisciplinary net. The domains related to age-friendly settings and living conditions, as facilitators or inhibitors for an active ageing with quality of life, are among its priority research topics, approached through quantitative, qualitative and mixed methodology, and from a scientific and lay-perspectives. She has coordinated several research projects and networks on active ageing, and participates in projects on the topic of interest. Currently, she is involved in research on social and gerontological aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic in older people living in different residential environments (family home, long-term care settings). Other line ofresearch deals with the age-friendly communities and its domains, focusing on the social inclusion to deepen into the stereotypes of old age. She belongs to several scientific societies (AGE, SEGG, ISQOLS), disseminates her research in monographs and in scientific journals of impact, and has been a co-partner, jointly with the research groups, of various awards.
Gloria Fernandez-Mayoralas holds a PhD in Human Geography by Complutense University at Madrid. She is a Research Scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), where she directed the Institute of Economics, Geography and Demography (IEGD) between 2011 and 2019. She works in the field of population studies, focusing on living conditions, wellbeing, and quality of life in old age, particularly on health conditions and physical and social environments for an active ageing. Dr. Fernandez-Mayoralas belongs to the Research Group on Ageing (GIE-CSIC) and is also involved in the Spanish Research Group on Quality ofLife and Ageing, a multidisciplinary network between CSIC and the Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII) for the study of active ageing and quality of life of older adults living in different residential contexts. From 2016 to 2022 she is coordinating the Program “Active Ageing, Quality of Life and Gender” (ENCAGE-CM), a research consortium forms by CSIC, ISCIII, public and private universities, companies providing health and social services, and Third Sector and Civil Society Organizations.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Active Ageing and Quality of Life
Book Subtitle: From Concepts to Applications
Editors: Fermina Rojo-Pérez, Gloria Fernández-Mayoralas
Series Title: International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58031-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58030-8Published: 13 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58033-9Published: 14 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-58031-5Published: 12 April 2021
Series ISSN: 2468-7227
Series E-ISSN: 2468-7235
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 655
Number of Illustrations: 45 b/w illustrations
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Personality and Social Psychology, Quality of Life Research, Aging, Social Work