Overview
- Examines aging in selected societies at different stages in the demographic transition
- Effectively utilizes an interdisciplinary case study approach to analyze key aging processes and policies across the globe
- Highlights innovative features of aging policies in the seven selected countries
- Emphasizes lessons for decision makers for gerontological policies in a time of global recession
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Aging (Int. Perspect. Aging, volume 1)
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About the authors
Prof. Ian G. Cook is Professor of Human Geography and current Chair of the Media, Arts and Social Science Faculty Graduate Research Committee, Liverpool John Moores University. His research is mainly on aspects of Chinese urbanization, health, environment, and gerontological issues, and on social gerontology more globally. He has published widely, including articles in Health Policy, the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy and Social Science and Medicine among others and is co-author or co-editor of 8 books, of which the most recent are the co-edited New Perspectives on China and Aging and Aging in Asia (with J.L.Powell), Nova Science Press 2007 and 2009 respectively. He has also been a doctoral supervisor of 17 successful PhD candidates spanning the social sciences, to date.
Dr Jamie Halsall is Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences in the Department of Behaviour Sciences and Social Sciences at Huddersfield University. In 2003 Jamie gained a BA (Hons) degree in Geography from Edge Hill University. The following year he gained a Masters degree in the Geographies of Globalisation and Development and in 2010 he completed his Doctorate of Philosophy while studying at the University of Liverpool. His academic career has included research with the International Centre for Development and Environmental Studies (ICDES), which was based in the Department of Natural Applied Sciences at Edge Hill University. From 2004 to 2008 he was managing editor of Global Built Environment Review (GBER), an international journal (www.edgehill.ac.uk/gber). He has presented his research to the British Council, Economic and Social Research Council and Research Development Fund (Edge Hill University).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Aging in Comparative Perspective
Book Subtitle: Processes and Policies
Authors: Ian Gillespie Cook, Jamie Halsall
Series Title: International Perspectives on Aging
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1978-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-1977-8Published: 23 November 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9999-3Published: 25 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-1978-5Published: 03 February 2012
Series ISSN: 2197-5841
Series E-ISSN: 2197-585X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 96
Topics: Aging, Geriatrics/Gerontology, Social Work, Quality of Life Research