Uhlenberg, Peter
International Handbook of Population Aging
Part I. Overview
1. How Populations Age
Joshua R. Goldstein
2. Data Sources for Studying Aging
Markus H. Schafer, Kenneth F. Ferraro
3. Global Population Aging: History and Prospects
Donald T. Rowland
Part II. Aging Populations
4. Population Ageing in Italy and Southern Europe
Cecilia Tomassini, Giovanni Lamura
5. Demography of Aging in the Nordic Countries
Gerdt Sundström
6. Rapidly Aging Populations: Russia/Eastern Europe
Natalia S. Gavrilova, Leonid A. Gavrilov
7. Rapid Population Aging and Changing Intergenerational Transfers in Japan
Naohiro Ogawa, Rikiya Matsukura, Maliki
8. Population Aging in China
Feinian Chen, Guangya Liu
9. Population Aging in the Koreas
Dudley L. Poston, Mary Ann Davis
10. Population Aging in Canada and the United States
Tracey A. LaPierre, Mary Elizabeth Hughes
11. Aging in Mexico and Latin America
Rebeca Wong, Alberto Palloni
12. Ageing in West Africa
Isabella Aboderin
13. Demography of Aging in Arab Countries
Kathryn M. Yount, Abla M. Sibai
Part III. Migration and Aging
14. Geographic Mobility and Aging in Place
Don E. Bradley, Charles F. Longino
15. International Retirement Migration
Tony (A.M.) Warnes
16. Immigrants and Aging
Judith Treas, Jeanne Batalova
17. Replacement Migration
Charles B. Keely
Part IV. Population Aging and Economic Issues
18. Public Pension Programs – Social Security
Diane M. Watts-Roy, John B. Williamson
19. Private Pensions in International Perspective
Angela M. O’Rand, Donald Ebel, Katelin Isaacs
20. Employment at Older Ages
Sara E. Rix
21. Population Retirement Patterns
David J. Ekerdt
22. Income Inequality in Later Life
Melissa Hardy
Part V. Population Aging, Longevity, and Health
23. Mortality Patterns in Late Life
Robert A. Hummer, Richard G. Rogers, Ryan K. Masters, Jarron M. Saint Onge
24. Active Life Expectancy: A Central Measure of Population Health
Sarah B. Laditka, James N. Laditka
25. Demography of Disability
Scott M. Lynch, J. Scott Brown, Miles G. Taylor
26. Social Class, Health and Longevity
Pamela Herd
Part VI. Health Care and Aging
27. Population Aging and Health Care Policy in Cross-National Perspective
Stephen Crystal, Michele J. Siegel
28. Health Care Expenditures
Edward C. Norton, Sally C. Stearns
29. Demography of Informal Caregiving
Emily M. Agree, Karen Glaser
Part VII. Population Aging and Social Relationships
30. Childless Old Age
Pearl A. Dykstra
31. Marital History and Well-Being in Later Life
Linda J. Waite
32. Gender, Aging and Widowhood
Deborah Carr, Susan Bodnar-Deren
Part VIII. Future of Aging
33. The Future of Human Longevity
S. Jay Olshansky, Bruce A. Carnes
34. Experience, Social Structure and Later Life: Meaning and Old Age in an Aging Society
Dale Dannefer, Robin Shura
Keywords: Social Sciences, general, Aging, Demography, Geriatrics/Gerontology, Sociology, Social Sciences, general
- Author(s)
- Uhlenberg, Peter
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2009
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- International Handbooks of Population
- Page amount
- 785 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781402083563