Contents
1. Introduction: Conceptualising Social Policy for the
Twenty-first-century Demography
Sarah Harper
2. Introduction to Parts I-IV: Perspectives on the Challenges of
Population Ageing
PART I: POLICY CHALLENGES FOR MATURE SOCIETIES – CONTEXT
3. Drivers of Demographic Change in the Twentieth and Twenty-first
Centuries
George W. Leeson
4. A Biodemographic Perspective on Longevity and Ageing
Bruce A. Carnes
5. Migration and Ageing Societies
Sarah Harper
6. On the Mechanical Contributions of Ageing to Global Income
Inequality
Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue and Michael Tenikue
7. Population Ageing and the Size of the Welfare State
Vincenzo Galasso and Paola Profeta
PART II: POLICY CHALLENGES FOR MATURE SOCIETIES – PENSIONS
8. Global Pension Systems
Robert Holzmann
9. The Design and Implementation of Pension Systems in Developing
Countries: Issues and Options
David E. Bloom and Roddy McKinnon
10. Understanding Pension Wealth
Zhenyu Li and Anthony Webb
11. Rational Pension Reform
Axel Börsch-Supan
12. National Transfer Accounts and Intergenerational Transfers
Ron Lee and Andy Mason
PART III: POLICY CHALLENGES FOR MATURE SOCIETIES – HEALTH
13. Assessing the Cost Effectiveness of Therapies for Older
People
Richard Edlin
14. Population Ageing and Health Care Expenditure Growth
Ed Westerhout
15. Developing Appropriate and Effective Care for People with
Chronic Disease
Bert Vrieheof and Arianne Elissen
PART IV: POLICY CHALLENGES FOR MATURE SOCIETIES – WELFARE
16. Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice in Age-related
Transfers
Kenneth Howse
17. Health and Social Protection Policies for Older People in Latin
America
Peter Lloyd-Sherlock
18. Ageing Electorates and Gerontocracy: The Politics of Ageing in
a Global World
Fernando M. Torres-Gil and Kimberly Spencer-Suarez
19. Working Beyond Retirement Age: Lessons for Policy
David Lain and Sarah Vickerstaff
20. Families, Older Persons and Care in Contexts of Poverty: the
Case of South Africa
Jaco Hoffman
PART V and VI: PRACTIONER PERSPECTIVES
21. Policy and Practitioner Responses to the Challenges of
Population Ageing: Introduction
Jaco Hoffman
22. Sustaining the Nordic Welfare Model in the Face of Population
Ageing
Virpi Timonen and Mikko Kautto
23. Kinship Solidarity in Southern Europe
Chiara Saraceno
24. Ageing and Social Policy in Australia
Jeni Warburton
25. The Pension System in China: An Overview
Taichang Chen
26. How Technology is Re-shaping the Processes of Providing Health
Care for Ageing Populations
Robin Gauld
27. Ageing and Care Giving in America: the Immigrant Workforce
B. Lindsay Lowell
28. Canada’s Live-in Caregiver Programme
Ivy Lynn Bourgeault and Jelena Atanackovic
PART VI: PRACTIONER PERSPECTIVES – POLICY INNOVATION AND CIVIL
SOCIETY
29. Intergenerational Programmes and Policies in Aging
Societies
Matthew Kaplan and Mariano Sánchez
30. Population Ageing and Private Sector Provision: the Case of
Dependent Older Women in Latin America
Nélida Redondo
31. Demographic Change and the Role of Older People in the
Voluntary Sector
Karsten Hank and Marcel Erlinghagen
32. The Third Sector as a Provider of Services for Older People
Ewa Leś
33. State-third Sector Partnership Frameworks: from Administration
to Participation?
Ingo Bode
34. Microfinance, Cooperatives and Timebanks- Community Provided
Welfare
Ed Collom
35. Faith-Based Organizations and the Provision of Care for Older
People
Lori Carter-Edwards, James H. Johnson Jr., Allan M. Parnell and
Harold G. Koenig
36. Lifelong Learning and Employers: Re-skilling Older Workers
John Field and Roy Canning
37. Retirement Planning and Financial Literacy
Annamaria Lusardi
Index
Edited by Sarah Harper, CBE, Director and Clore Professor of Gerontology and Kate Hamblin, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford, UK with Jaco Hoffman, Kenneth Howse and George Leeson
‘International Handbook on Ageing and Public Policy gathers under
one cover the collective knowledge of experts in the field who
explore challenges arising from ageing populations around the
world, and considers national state approaches to welfare for older
people and how public and private initiatives work. College-level
collections strong in public policies and aging with find this a
powerful collection of in-depth articles suitable for framing
inquiries and considering social structures.’
*The Midwest Book Review*
‘This Handbook on ageing and public policy makes a substantial
contribution in bringing together chapters spanning a breadth of
issues in the areas of policy challenges and practitioner
perspectives.’
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