Ageing in a Global Context

Care for Older Adults in India
Living Arrangements and Quality of Life
Edited by Ajay Bailey, Martin Hyde, K. S. James
Published by: Bristol University Press
Published online: 13 October 2022
Print publication: 31 May 2022
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India’s ageing population is growing rapidly. This book examines living arrangements across India and their impact on the provision of care for older adults in India.

The Environments of Ageing
Space, Place and Materiality
Sheila Peace
Published by: Bristol University Press
Published online: 15 September 2022
Print publication: 24 February 2022
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Providing the first UK assessment of environmental gerontology, this book enriches current understanding of the spatiality of ageing. It contextualises personal experience in national and local spaces and places, considers the value of intergenerational and age-related living and global to local concerns for population ageing in light of COVID-19.

Ageing and the Crisis in Health and Social Care
Global and National Perspectives
Bethany Simmonds
Published by: Bristol University Press
Published online: 30 April 2022
Print publication: 04 November 2021
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Current and future provision of health and social care for older people is explored in this timely study. It draws on examples from Germany, Sweden and the UK to measure the impact of trends including neoliberalisation and marketisation, and it considers new solutions to contemporary challenges in a complex care system.

Disability and Ageing
Towards a Critical Perspective
Ann Leahy
Published by: Bristol University Press
Published online: 16 April 2023
Print publication: 12 July 2021
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Establishing a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue, this text engages with the typically disparate fields of social gerontology and disability studies. It investigates the experiences of two groups rarely considered together in research - people ageing with long-term disability and people first experiencing disability with ageing.

Ethnicity and Old Age
Expanding our Imagination
Sandra Torres
Published by: Bristol University Press
Published online: 27 April 2022
Print publication: 17 April 2019
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By bringing attention to the way that ethnicity and race have been addressed in research on ageing and old age, with a focus on health inequalities, health and social care, intergenerational relationships and caregiving, this book proposes how research can be developed in an ethnicity astute and diversity informed manner.

Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Sexualities
Multidisciplinary International Perspectives
Edited by Andrew King, Kathryn Almack, Rebecca L. Jones
Published by: Bristol University Press
Published online: 27 April 2022
Print publication: 21 March 2019
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This edited collection examines ageing, gender, and sexualities from multidisciplinary and geographically diverse perspectives and looks at how these factors combine with other social divisions to affect experiences of ageing.

Age-Friendly Cities and Communities
A Global Perspective
Edited by Tine Buffel, Sophie Handler, Chris Phillipson
Published by: Bristol University Press
Published online: 12 April 2022
Print publication: 17 January 2018
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This important book provides a comprehensive survey of different strategies for developing age-friendly communities, and the extent to which older people themselves can be involved in the co-production of age-friendly policies and practices.

Gender, Ageing and Extended Working Life
Cross-National Perspectives
Edited by Áine Ní Léime, Debra Street, Sarah Vickerstaff, Clary Krekula, Wendy Loretto
Published by: Bristol University Press
Published online: 05 April 2022
Print publication: 05 July 2017
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This book offers a challenge to the assumption that there is appropriate employment available for people who are expected to retire later, and the gender-neutral way the expectation for extending working lives is presented in most policy-making circles.

Intimacy and Ageing
New Relationships in Later Life
Torbjörn Bildtgård, Peter Öberg
Published by: Bristol University Press
Published online: 05 April 2022
Print publication: 21 June 2017
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This timely book, part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, addresses the gap in knowledge about late life repartnering and provides a comprehensive map of the changing landscape of late life intimacy.

Ageing in Sub-Saharan Africa
Spaces and Practices of Care
Edited by Jaco Hoffman, Katrien Pype
Published by: Bristol University Press
Published online: 05 April 2022
Print publication: 07 July 2016
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This in-depth ethnographic analysis provides the pan-African evidence and analysis needed to move forward debates about who and how to address the long-term care needs of older people in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Ageing and Globalisation
Martin Hyde, Paul Higgs
Published by: Bristol University Press
Published online: 05 April 2022
Print publication: 06 July 2016
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This book provides, for the first time, an accessible overview of how population ageing and globalisation - two of the most radical social transformations that have occurred - interact.

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