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Ageing through Austerity: Critical Perspectives from Ireland

Editat de Kieran Walsh, Gemma M. Carney, Áine Ní Léime
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 mar 2015
Demographic aging is a global challenge with significant social policy implications. This book explores these implications, with a particular focus on the pressures and prospects for aging societies in the context of austerity.

Ageing through Austerity presents a carefully crafted study of aging in Ireland, a nation that transitioned from Celtic Tiger to bail-out state as one of the countries hardest hit by the Eurozone financial crisis. Providing a close, critical analysis of aging and social policy that draws directly on the perspectives of older people, this book makes significant advances in framing alternatives to austerity-driven government policy and neoliberalism, giving a refreshing interdisciplinary account of contemporary aging.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781447316237
ISBN-10: 1447316231
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 171 x 241 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bristol University Press
Colecția Policy Press

Notă biografică

Keiran Walsh is a senior research fellow at Project Lifecourse and deputy director of the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, National University of Ireland Galway. Gemma Carney is a lecturer in social policy and ageing at the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Queen’s University Belfast. Áine Ní Léime is a Marie-Curie Fellow and researcher at Project Lifecourse and the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, National University of Ireland, Galway.

Cuprins

Foreword ~ Alan Walker
Introduction - social policy and ageing through austerity ~ Kieran Walsh, Gemma M. Carney and Áine Ní Léime
Contextualising ageing in Ireland ~ Sheelah Connolly
Citizenship in an age of austerity: towards a constructive politics of ageing ~ Gemma M. Carney
Active ageing: social participation and volunteering in later life ~ Áine Ní Léime and Sheelah Connolly
Pension provision, gender, ageing and work in Ireland ~ Áine Ní
Léime, Nata Duvvury and Aoife Callan Interrogating the ‘age-friendly community’ in austerity: myths, realities and the influence of place context ~ Kieran Walsh
Reframing policy for dementia in Ireland ~ Eamon O’Shea, Suzanne Cahill and Maria Pierce
Between inclusion and exclusion in later life ~ Thomas Scharf and Kieran Walsh
Conclusion - Beyond austerity: critical issues for future policy ~ Gemma M. Carney, Kieran Walsh and Áine Ní Léime
Afterword: Austerity policies and new forms of solidarity ~ Chris Phillipson.

Recenzii

“By illuminating individual, regional, and societal disparities, this book helps readers rethink the consequences of altered political economies and practices, such as recession, on aging and generations.”

“With impeccable timing, Walsh, Carney and Ni Léime capture the intersections of population aging and global economic recessions, using Ireland as the exemplar of the impact of austerity on older people.”