Table of Contents

PART ONE: FUNDAMENTAL AND DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON AGEING
The Study of the Life Course: Implications for Social Gerontology - Dale Dannefer and Richard A. Settersten, Jr.
Past as Prologue: Toward a Global History of Ageing - W. Andrew Achenbaum
The Economics of Ageing - James H. Schulz
Social Anthropology and Ageing - Christine L. Fry
The Demography of Ageing - Christina Victor
Epidemiology of Ageing - Dawn Alley and Eileen Crimmins
Disability and Ageing: The Social Construction of Causality - Jessica Kelley-Moore
Environmental Perspectives on Ageing - Hans-Werner Wahl and Frank Oswald
PART TWO: AGEING AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE
Age and Inequality in Global Context - Angela M. O′Rand, Katelin Isaacs, and Leslie Roth
Gender and Ageing in the Context of Globalization - Toni Calasanti
Ageing and Health among Hispanics/Latinos in the Americas - Kyriakos Markides, Jennifer Salinas, and Rebecca Wong
Religion and Age - Peter G. Coleman
Intergenerational Relationships of International Migrants in Developed Nations: The United States and France - Merril Silverstein and Claudine Attias-Donfut
Family and Age in a Global Perspective - Ariela Lowenstein and Ruth Katz
Intergenerational Relations: Asian Perspectives - Leng Leng Thang
Societal Dynamics in Personal Networks - Theo van Tilburg and Fleur Thomése
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Ageing: Shattering Myths, Capturing Lives - Dana Rosenfeld
Friendship and Ageing - Graham Allan
PART THREE: AGEING AND INDIVIDUAL CHANGE
Age, Self and Identity in the Global Century - Jon Hendricks
Social Structure, Cognition and Ageing - Duane F. Alwin
Stress and Agentic Ageing: A Targeted Adaptation Model Focused on Cancer - Eva Kahana and Boaz Kahana
Agency and Social Structure in Ageing and Life Course Research - Victor W. Marshall and Philippa J. Clarke
Age, Experience and the Beginning of Wisdom - Monika Ardelt
Loneliness and Ageing: Comparative Perspectives - Marja Jylhä and Marja Saarenheimo
Biosocial Interactions in the Construction of Late-life Health Status - Kathryn Z. Douthit and Andre Marquis
Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment in Social and Cultural Context - Danny George and Peter Whitehouse
Socio-cultural Perspectives on Ageing Bodies - Stephen Katz
Time and Ageing: Enduring and Emerging Issues - Jan Baars
PART FOUR: AGEING, CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT
Ageing and International Development - Peter Lloyd-Sherlock
Migration and Age - Tony Warnes
Global Ageing: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa - Isabella Aboderin
Population Ageing and Old-age Insurance in China - Zeng Yi and Linda K. George
Ageing in a Global Context: the Asia-Pacific Region - David R Phillips, Alfred C.M. Chan, and Sheung-Tak Cheng
The Significance of Grandparents to Grandchildren: An International Perspective - Peter Uhlenberg and Michelle Cheuk
A Social View on Healthy Ageing: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives and Australian Evidence - H. Kendig and C. Browning
Social Dimensions of Anti-ageing Science and Medicine - Robert H. Binstock and Jennifer R. Fishman
The New Ageing Enterprise - Harry R. Moody
PART FIVE: AGEING AND SOCIAL POLICY
Social Policies for Ageing Societies: Perspectives from Europe - Thomas Scharf
Globalization, Social Policy and Ageing: A North American Perspective - Carroll L. Estes and Steven P. Wallace
Social Policies for Ageing Societies: Australasian Perspectives - Michael Fine and Sally Keeling
Cross-National Trends in Work and Retirement - Philip Taylor
Continuous and Long-term Care: European Perspectives - Caroline Glendinning
Long-term Care in China and Japan - Yun Zhou and Yuzhi Liu
Ageing and Quality of Life in Europe - Alan Walker
Later Life and Imprisonment - Azrini Wahidin and Ronald H. Aday
Ageing and Urban Society: Growing Old in the ′Century of the City′ - Chris Phillipson
Technology and Older People - Claudine McCreadie
End-of-Life Issues - Liz Lloyd
Ethics and Old Age: The Second Generation - Martha Holstein
The Politics of Ageing - Susan A. MacManus with the assistance of Andrea L. Polk and David J. Bonanza

About the Author

Dale Dannefer is the Selah Chamberlain Professor of Sociology and Chair Department of Sociology at Case Western University in Ohio.  Chris Phillipson is Professor of Applied Social Studies and Social Gerontology at Keele University.

Reviews

This SAGE Handbook integrates basic research on social dimensions of aging. It presents programmatic applications of research in areas not often seen in Handbooks including imprisonment, technology and aging, urban society aged, and elderly migration. The authors constitute a Who′s Who of international gerontology, and the focus on globalization and aging is unique among Handbooks today. This Handbook should be in the library of every social gerontologist.
*Vern L. Bengtson*

This handbook is an impressive testimony to the vibrancy of social gerontology today. It documents the growing range of themes and disciplinary approaches in the study of societal aging. The two editors – one American, one European – have used their experience and reputation to assemble an outstanding cast of contributors who address the issues of aging societies in a truly global perspective.
*Martin Kohli*

Not only are the topics in this volume multidisciplinary but also the authors of the chapters come from all over the world and are acknowledged experts... All in all this is a very useful new contribution to the literature, and the editors are to be congratulated on bringing together a distinguished group of authors on such an interesting number of relevant topics.
*Anthea Tinker*