Well-Being of Older People in Ageing Societies

by Zaidi,Asghar

• ISBN13: 9780754675969
• ISBN10: 0754675963
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-11-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

How can we conceptualise and measure the personal well-being of older people?What future research agenda and policy reforms are necessary to maintain decent well-being for older people, in the context of ageing populations?The great strides towards rising longevity made in recent times now pose challenges for policymakers worldwide. Facing unprecedented rises in social expenditures and needing to mitigate the moral hazard of poverty in old age, policymakers require a holistic understanding of the personal resources of older people. To this end, ths book provides new insights, which draw on important new longitudinal datasets. Research is undertaken on on three themes:* The conceputalisation and measurement of the multidimensional measures of older people's welfare* The income experience of older people during the ageing process* The comparative analysis of income experience for older people who live under different institutional arrangements for pensions and social assistance, in the UK and the Netherlands.

Table of Contents

Setting the Context

Introduction

Conceptualising well-being of older people

Methodological choices in measuring well-being

The British pension and social benefit system

Empirical Findings

Coupling of disadvantages: an assessment of income deprivation and limiting health in old age

Income mobility in old age

Snakes and ladders; covariates of income mobility in old age

Income mobility of the elderly in Great Britain and The Netherlands: a comparative investigation

Conclusions

Synthesizing discussion and conlusions

Bibliography

Index

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