Zachary Zimmer - Global Ageing in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges, Opportunities and Implications

GLOBAL AGEING IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Challenges, Opportunities and Implications

Edited by

SUSAN A. MCDANIEL
University of Lethbridge, Canada

ZACHARY ZIMMER
University of California at San Francisco, USA

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Susan A. McDaniel and Zachary Zimmer 2013

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Global ageing in the twenty-first century: challenges, opportunities and implications.

1. Population aging--Cross-cultural studies. 2. Aging-
Cross-cultural studies. 3. Older people--Medical care-
Cross-cultural studies. 4. Older people--Employment-
Cross-cultural studies. 5. Older people--Economic
conditions--Cross-cultural studies. 6. Intergenerational
relations--Cross-cultural studies. 7. Older people-
Government policy--Cross-cultural studies.
I. McDaniel, Susan A., 1946- II. Zimmer, Zachary.
305.2'6'09-dc23

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McDaniel, Susan A., 1946

Global ageing in the twenty-first century: challenges, opportunities and implications / by Susan A. McDaniel and Zachary Zimmer.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-3270-8 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-4094-3271-5 (ebook) 1. Aging-
Social aspects. 2. Social history--21st century. I. Zimmer, Zachary. II. Title.

HQ1061.M37613 2013

305.26--dc23

2012026365

ISBN 9781409432708 (hbk)
ISBN 9781409432715 (ebk-PDF)
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Zachary Zimmer and Susan McDaniel

Franois Hran

Moneer Alam

Kristine J. Ajrouch, Kathryn M. Yount, Abla M. Sibai and Pia Roman

Eileen Crimmins, Felicia Wheaton, Sarinnapha Vasunilashorn, Hiram Beltrn-Snchez, Lu Zhang and Jung Ki Kim

Mira M. Hidajat, Zachary Zimmer and Baai-Shyun Hurng

Isabella Aboderin

Dorly J.H. Deeg

Codrina Rada

Kathrin Komp

Emily Jovic and Julie McMullin

Sara Arber

Neena L. Chappell

Janet Fast

Kim Korinek

George W. Leeson and Hafiz T.A. Khan

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Susan McDaniel and Zachary Zimmer

Isabella Aboderin holds a dual appointment as Senior Research Fellow at the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) in Nairobi, Kenya and Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford, UK.

Kristine J. Ajrouch, PhD, is Professor of Sociology at Eastern Michigan University and Adjunct Research Professor in the Life Course Development Program at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Her primary research focus concerns the multi-dimensional area of social relations over the life course. Dr Ajrouch has studied, for over 15 years, Arab-Americans and Muslims in the United States. She recently initiated a research program focusing on family ties and ageing in the Middle East.

Moneer Alam, a PhD in economics, is Professor at the Institute of Economic Growth (Delhi). His fields of research include manpower planning and forecasting, labor market issues, health financing, catastrophic spending on healthcare, economic and health issues of ageing, etc. His two substantive contributions on ageing are Ageing in India: Socio-economic and Health Dimensions (Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2006) and Demographics, Employment and Old Age Security: Emerging Trends and Challenges in South Asia (eds Moneer Alam and Armando Barrientos, Delhi: Macmillan, 2010).

Sara Arber is Professor of Sociology and co-Director at the Centre for Research on Ageing and Gender (CRAG) at the University of Surrey, UK. She was President of the British Sociological Association (19992001). Sara has written over 200 journal articles on gender and ageing, inequalities in health and the sociology of sleep. Her books include The Myth of Generational Conflict: Family and State in Ageing Societies, Connecting Gender and Ageing and Contemporary Grandparenting.

Hiram Beltrn-Snchez is an NIA Post-doctoral Fellow at the Andrus Gerontology Center at the University of Southern California. His research focuses on the study of health, health risk factors, morbidity and mortality patterns in the adult population both in the US and Mexico.

Neena L. Chappell, PhD, FRSC, Canada Research Chair in Social Gerontology, Tier 1, is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Centre on Aging at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She has been conducting gerontological research for over 30 years and has established two university-based research centers on ageing (one at the University of Manitoba and one at the University of Victoria).

Eileen Crimmins, PhD is the AARP Professor of Gerontology at the University of Southern California where she is currently Director of the USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health. She is also Director of the Multidisciplinary Training in Gerontology program. Professor Crimmins received her PhD in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dorly J.H. Deeg is Professor of Epidemiology of Aging in the EMGO-Institute for Health and Care Research, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Department of Psychiatry, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is Scientific Director of the Longitudinal Aging Study, Amsterdam and founding Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Ageing. Her research interests include health, disability and health and social care at older ages.

Janet Fast is a professor in the Department of Human Ecology at the University of Alberta. She is a family economist whose research addresses family, health and continuing care policy issues. Major themes are the economics of ageing and the paid and unpaid care work of family members. She currently co-leads an international and multidisciplinary research team investigating the intersection of work and care across the life course.

Franois Hran is with the French National Institute for Demographic Research (INED) (Director, 19992009). He served as Head of the Population Surveys at the French National Institute of Statistics (INSEE). He is the author of several reports: Demography and economy (2002), Immigration, labour market, integration (2002), Inequalities and discrimination (2010) as well as a number of research articles. Recent books include