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  • Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025
  • Kirjastus: Routledge India
  • ISBN-10: 1032632291
  • ISBN-13: 9781032632292
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This handbook provides a comprehensive look into the emerging issues confronting ageing societies across the world. Drawing on scholarship from Africa, the Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe, it explores different dimensions of ageing, gender, health, environment, care, elder abuse, generational relationships, and grief.



This handbook provides a comprehensive look into the emerging issues confronting ageing societies across the world. Drawing on scholarship from Africa, the Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe, it explores different dimensions of ageing, gender, health, environment, care, elder abuse, generational relationships, and grief.

The volume adopts a gerontological perspective to evaluate ageing-specific policies and places emphasis on guiding research and practice towards achieving a better quality of life for older people across the world. It argues that new developments because of changing age structures, support ratios, family relationships and socioeconomic situations call for innovative practices, in terms of health and social care facilities, livelihood opportunities, retirement options, skill development and educational learning.

Lucid and accessible, the handbook will be of interest to those working in gerontology, ageing, health, death studies, social care, public health policy, human rights law, sociology and social policy, gender studies, cultural studies, medical sociology, political sociology, mental health, and social sciences.

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This volume is a valuable compendium of observations and conclusions, supported by regional and national research. The material in this book can form the ground for evidence-based and targeted policies on ageing and longevity.

Alexandre Sidorenko, European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna, Austria

Authors from around the globe have been brought together in this volume to discuss crucial aging issues from their perspectives and situations. A fascinating collection of narratives from all continents that informs and inspires reflection about the diversities and similarities of agings challenges and potentials.

Jan Baars, Professor Emeritus of Humanistic Gerontology at the University for Humanistic Studies in Utrecht, the Netherlands

For anyone invested in the future of ageing, whether from an academic, policy-making, or advocacy perspective, Handbook of Contemporary Ageing Issues stands out as a crucial contribution to the field, fostering a more informed and compassionate approach to supporting our global ageing population.

The Handbook brings together global perspectives and country-specific narratives, providing a rich tapestry of knowledge that is both deeply informative and practically relevant. It offers critical insights into how ageing is perceived, managed, and supported worldwide, making it an invaluable reference for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners.

The handbook's balanced approach, blending theory with real-world applications, ensures that it serves as a guide for both understanding and addressing the complexities of ageing in our contemporary society.

Jane Barratt, Global Advisor and Consultant in Ageing, Past Secretary: International Federation of Ageing (IFA) This volume is a valuable compendium of observations and conclusions, supported by regional and national research. The material in this book can form the ground for evidence-based and targeted policies on ageing and longevity.

Dr. Alexandre Sidorenko, European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna, Austria

Authors from around the globe have been brought together in this volume to discuss crucial aging issues from their perspectives and situations. A fascinating collection of narratives from all continents that informs and inspires reflection about the diversities and similarities of agings challenges and potentials.

Jan Baars, Professor Emeritus of Humanistic Gerontology at the University for Humanistic Studies in Utrecht, the Netherlands (www.janbaars.nl)

For anyone invested in the future of ageing, whether from an academic, policy-making, or advocacy perspective, Handbook of Contemporary Ageing Issues stands out as a crucial contribution to the field, fostering a more informed and compassionate approach to supporting our global ageing population.

The Handbook brings together global perspectives and country-specific narratives, providing a rich tapestry of knowledge that is both deeply informative and practically relevant. It offers critical insights into how ageing is perceived, managed, and supported worldwide, making it an invaluable reference for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners.

The handbook's balanced approach, blending theory with real-world applications, ensures that it serves as a guide for both understanding and addressing the complexities of ageing in our contemporary society.

Jane Barratt, Global Advisor and Consultant in Ageing, Past Secretary: International Federation of Ageing (IFA)

I. INTRODUCTION
1. A Discourse on Contemporary Ageing Issues and
Synopsis of the Narratives II. EMERGING ISSUES: GLOBAL NARRATIVES
2. Older
women: the confluence between gender and age
3. Resident-to-resident
Aggression Analysed Through a Rights-Based Approach
4. Coping with Elder
Abuse & Neglect: Can we increase detection and identification?
5. Sustainable
development and quality of life of older adults from an European Perspective
6. Emotional Frailty in Older Adults
7. Cognitive Frailty in Older Adults
8. Effective interventions in age-related disease
9. Older People and
Assistive Technology
10. Navigating an End -of- Life Journey From a
Terminal Diagnosis Through the Last Hours
11. Grief, the Emotional Impact of
Aging
12. Addressing Aging Grief
13. Hidden Carers: The Invisibility of a
Family Carer
14. Geriatric Substance Use/Abuse Global Concerns III.
CONTEMPORARY REGIONAL & COUNTRY NARRATIVES A) AFRICA
15. Urban Renewal
Initiatives and Vulnerability of Older Persons in a Nigerian City
16.
Measuring the value of old age in low-income settings in Africa:
Contributions of older persons, a hidden treasure
17. Ageing, Health Care,
Social Protection and Inter-Generational Solidarity in South Africa: Concerns
and Responses
18. Household structure and Health at older ages in sub-Saharan
Africa
19. Interventions for Incomes and Livelihoods among Older Persons in
Kenya: An Analysis of Milestones and Gaps in Social Protection Policies B)
AMERICAS
20. Geriatric Education in U.S. at a Turning Point: Moving ahead
Requires Looking Back
21. Older Adults with Severe Mental Illness in United
States
22. American Values and the Intersection of Ageism & Sexism in the
Workplace
23. Training Boomers to Transition into Retirement: Best Practices
in the Offing?
24. Ozarks Rural Health
25. The Future of Eldercare in America
is No Caregivers. Now What?
26. Aging In Uruguay
27. Comprehensive analysis
of subnational disparities in population ageing in Mexico: overview and
challenges for a healthy ageing
28. Ageing and living conditions of older
persons in Argentina: An analysis from a rights perspective
29. Violence
against older women, an emerging issue in Latin America
30. Solitude and
Sociability among Older People in Brazil
31. LGBTIQ Older Adults in Brazil
and the Birth of South American Gray Pride C) ASIA PACIFIC
32. Gender
Difference in Evaluating Global Age-Friendly Cities Indicators in Iran
33.
Healthy Ageing at very old ages perspectives from women in the oldest
cohort of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Womens Health
34.
Technology-enhanced dementia education programs in the Japanese community
35.
Population Aging, Depopulation and the Workforce Shortage Crisis in Japan: An
Overview Of 9 Reversal Strategies and a Paradigm for a Policy and Research
Agenda
36. Senior Learner as Part of the Lifelong Learning Policy in
Singapore
37. The Role of University to Promote Healthy and Active Ageing in
Indonesia
38. Emerging Ageing Issues in China
39. Growth of Education in
Gerontology and Use of Technology to Improve Quality of Life of Older People
40. Filial piety and the law: A comparative study of Indian and Chinese laws
on care for parents
41. Intergenerational Support for Older Persons in India:
A Demographic Perspective
42. Law catching up with dignified death: Legal
battle for "Living Will" or Advance Medical Directive in India
43. Rights of
Older People: Global Perspective & Nepali Response
44. Trends and emerging
issues of older Persons: A case of South Asian country Nepal D) EUROPE
45.
Ireland- the best country in which to grow old with dignity and respect'
46. Intimacy and sexuality in Residential Aged Care Facilities in Belgium
47.
The German approach to participation by older people and how HelpAge promotes
this approach worldwide by way of Older People Associations (OPAs)
48. Old
Husbands Caring for Their Wives in Malta: Enduring Gendered Stereotypes and
Cultural Masculinities
49. System of support of seniors in Poland - from
institutional care to community-based services
50. Polish seniors in rural
areas experiences and challenges
51. Ageing Issues, Concerns and Responses
in the Netherlands
52. How to feel at home in nursing homes? From scandal to
a new concept in France
53. Postmodern Condition and Tradition in Greece:
Approaching Visions about Ageing Reflected by Television
54. Spanish older
adults: Political participation and active citizenship
55. The Spanish
paradigm shift: from a dependency-based approach to a right based on personal
autonomy?
56. Ageing, disability, and the adoption of technology among
Italian older adults
Mala Kapur Shankardass, Ph.D., is a sociologist, gerontologist, health social scientist, academician, researcher, author, activist, and an independent consultant. As a Sociologist she retired from the University of Delhi, India in March 2021 but is still delivering lectures in her fields of specialization as an Invited Speaker/Guest at different universities and other institutions in India and abroad. She is also involved with various national and international organizations as an Expert/Resource person. She is a Founding Member and Managing Trustee of the Development, Welfare and Research Foundation (DWRF). She is Asia Representative of the International Network for Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA) and Executive Board Member of Ageing Consortium Asia Pacific (ACAP). She is Editor and Author of 15 books published with renowned publishers, such Routledge and Springer and has 2 forthcoming in 2025 and 2 in 2026. She has many articles in reputed journals, books, newspapers and magazines to her credit She is the recipient of various prestigious Fellowships and professional awards. She is a Panelist on radio and TV channels. She has been actively involved with Rotary International and is Paul Harris Fellow.