Demographic ageing is identified as a global challenge with significant social policy implications. This book explores these implications, with a particular focus on the pressures and prospects for ageing societies in the context of austerity. The book presents a carefully crafted study of ageing in Ireland, one of the countries hardest hit by the Eurozone financial crisis. Providing a close, critical analysis of ageing and social policy that draws directly on the perspectives of older people, the text makes significant advances in framing alternatives to austerity-driven government policy and neoliberalism, giving a refreshing interdisciplinary account of contemporary ageing.

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Publisher

Policy Press

Year

2016

ISBN

9781447334408

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Gerontology

Index

Social Sciences

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of tables and figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Foreword: Alan Walker
One: Introduction - social policy and ageing through austerity: Kieran Walsh, Gemma M. Carney and Áine Ní Léime
Two: Contextualising ageing in Ireland: Sheelah Connolly
Three: Citizenship in an age of austerity: towards a constructive politics of ageing: Gemma M. Carney
Four: Active ageing: social participation and volunteering in later life: Áine Ní Léime and Sheelah Connolly
Five: Pension provision, gender, ageing and work in Ireland: Áine Ní Léime, Nata Duvvury and Aoife Callan
Six: Interrogating the 'age-friendly community' in austerity: myths, realities and the influence of place context: Kieran Walsh
Seven: Reframing policy for dementia: Eamon O'Shea, Suzanne Cahill and Maria Pierce
Eight: Between inclusion and exclusion in later life: Thomas Scharf
Nine: Conclusion - beyond austerity: critical issues for future policy: Gemma M. Carney, Kieran Walsh and Áine Ní Léime
Afterword: Austerity policies and new forms of solidarity: Chris Phillipson
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