Mainstreaming Ageing
Mainstreaming Ageing

Author: Asghar Zaidi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-29

Total Pages: 864

ISBN-13: 1351920960

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The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA), adopted at the Second World Assembly on Ageing, is the first international agreement that specifically recognises the potential of older people to contribute to the development of their societies. In monitoring its implementation two key approaches are evident: a qualitative bottom-up participatory approach and an approach that uses quantitative indicators to monitor sustainable progress and policies. With the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, playing a pivotal role in the monitoring of the implementation process, one of its key tasks has been to develop a list of 'indicators of achievement'. This book contains extended and revised versions of policy briefs and background papers that support the implementation monitoring process. The analyses included in these chapters make concrete suggestions towards quantitative indicators, with the aim of assisting national governments in mainstreaming ageing in their policies. The contributors provide an overview of the current situation with respect to population ageing and its consequences and also provide projections for the future. The book also includes the final list of quantitative indicators that arose out of consultations with international experts, related to the four main topics addressed: demography, income and wealth, labour market participation, and social protection and financial sustainability.

Mainstreaming Ageing
Mainstreaming Ageing

Author: Asghar Zaidi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-29

Total Pages: 682

ISBN-13: 1351920952

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The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA), adopted at the Second World Assembly on Ageing, is the first international agreement that specifically recognises the potential of older people to contribute to the development of their societies. In monitoring its implementation two key approaches are evident: a qualitative bottom-up participatory approach and an approach that uses quantitative indicators to monitor sustainable progress and policies. With the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, playing a pivotal role in the monitoring of the implementation process, one of its key tasks has been to develop a list of 'indicators of achievement'. This book contains extended and revised versions of policy briefs and background papers that support the implementation monitoring process. The analyses included in these chapters make concrete suggestions towards quantitative indicators, with the aim of assisting national governments in mainstreaming ageing in their policies. The contributors provide an overview of the current situation with respect to population ageing and its consequences and also provide projections for the future. The book also includes the final list of quantitative indicators that arose out of consultations with international experts, related to the four main topics addressed: demography, income and wealth, labour market participation, and social protection and financial sustainability.

Road Map for Mainstreaming Ageing
Road Map for Mainstreaming Ageing

Author: United Nations

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789211170382

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As population ageing becomes increasingly important in countries of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, national Governments in this region are taking steps to integrate a consideration of ageing and older people into their policy making. UNECE assists countries in this endeavour by developing Road Maps for Mainstreaming Ageing. This report presents the findings and recommendations from the Road Map project in Armenia. While pension reform is found to be one of the principal measures necessary to facilitate Armenia's adaptation to an ageing society, the Road Map emphasizes that mainstreaming ageing into all policy areas -- health care, housing, educaiton, amongst others -- is vital to ensure success and safeguard the well-being of older persons

Ageing, Health and Pensions in Europe
Ageing, Health and Pensions in Europe

Author: Lans Bovenberg

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-10-27

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 0230307345

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Providing an overview of the future research challenges for economists and social scientists concerning population ageing, pensions, health and social care in Europe, this book examines how scientific research can provide cutting-edge evidence on income security and well-being of the elderly, and labour markets and older workers.

Ageing, Wellbeing and Climate Change in the Arctic
Ageing, Wellbeing and Climate Change in the Arctic

Author: Paivi Naskali

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-11-19

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1317485939

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The Arctic and its unique natural resources have become objects of increasing concern. Rapid climate change and ageing of the population are transforming the living conditions in the region. This translates into an urgent need for information that will contribute to a better understanding of these issues. Ageing, Wellbeing and Climate Change in the Arctic addresses the important intersection of ageing, wellbeing and climate change in the Arctic region, making a key interdisciplinary contribution to an area of research on which little has been written, and limited sources of information are currently available. The book explores three key areas of discussion. First, various political issues that are currently affecting the Arctic, such as the social categorisation of elderly people. Second, the living conditions of the elderly in relation to Arctic climate change. Third, the wellbeing of elderly people in terms of traditional knowledge and lifestyles. The book also features contributions from a number of key researchers in the field which examine a broad range of case studies, including the impact of climate change on health in Lapland and elderly people and geographical mobility in Norway. This book will be of great interest to scholars of climate change, gerontology and social policy.

Education for Older People
Education for Older People

Author: June Sark Heinrich

Publisher:

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13:

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There is a strong case to be made for mainstreaming older people into regular classes and schools rather than segregating them in special, separate groups on the basis of age. Many older Americans are in need of elementary-secondary level training in order to become functionally literate. Similarly, the continually changing nature of work has forced many middle-aged and older adults to seek vocational training or retraining. The decline in enrollment and financial problems currently being faced by institutions at all educational levels make the mainstreaming of adults into regular classrooms not only feasible but economically advantageous. While it is true that education has traditionally meant education of the young, America has manifested a historical trend toward all-inclusive education. Many of the traditional assumptions underlyinq American education would tend to support the mainstreaming of older adults into regular classrooms. Included amoung these are the notions of education as preparation, education as continuous growth, and education as an end. What is needed now is an age-inclusive system of education in which schooling would no longer be viewed as preparation of youth but rather as a lifelong process. (MN)

A Research Agenda for Ageing and Social Policy
A Research Agenda for Ageing and Social Policy

Author: Kai Leichsenring

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2024-02-12

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1802208135

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Foreword by Alan Walker, Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology, University of Sheffield, UK Written by a global collective of scholars from a wide variety of backgrounds, including health studies, psychology and economics as well as social policy and gerontology, this timely Research Agenda highlights the challenges and opportunities of rising longevity and population ageing for social policy providing clear directions for future research.

Welfare in an Idle Society?
Welfare in an Idle Society?

Author: Bernd Marin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-24

Total Pages: 623

ISBN-13: 1351873407

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The modern welfare state is indeed one of the greatest achievements of the post-war 20th century. With its key aims of eradicating the five giant social ills of Want, Ignorance, Disease, Squalor and Idleness, it aimed to providing a minimum standard of living, with all people of working age paying a weekly contribution; in return, benefits would be paid to anyone who was sick, unemployed, retired or widowed. The modern welfare state, therefore, is about maintaining a delicate equilibrium between dependent social groups on the one hand and the active working classes on the other. In the case of old-age security, this balance is being achieved (or not) by the so-called Generation Contract. This social pact is more of an implicit, unwritten and unspecified social contract. This ground-breaking book demonstrates how countries are addressing population-ageing challenges in depth, using the case study of Austria to gain the required complexity and differentiation in a comparative European framework of empirical evidence. This is a broad social science study in political economy and sociology, not an economic analysis. Though focusing on pensions, it centres on the (im)balance between work and non-work, issues of health, work ability, employability, and benefit receipt from old-age security to disability allowance. It will be required reading for all sociologists and social policy experts and academics working within this area.