Dale Dannefer & Chris Phillipson 
The SAGE Handbook of Social Gerontology 

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, Professor of Gerontology, University of Southern California



This volume reflects the emergence of ageing as a global concern, including chapters by international scholars from Asia, Australasia, Europe and North America. It provides a comprehensive overview of key trends and issues in the field, drawing upon the full range of social science disciplines. 



The Handbook is organized into five parts, each exploring different aspects of research into social aspects of ageing:

• Disciplinary overviews: summaries of findings from key disciplinary areas within social gerontology.


• Social relationships and social differences: explores area like social inequality, gender, religion, inter-generational ties, social networks, and friendships.


• Individual characteristics and change in later life: examines different aspects of individual aging, including self and identity, cognitive processes, and bio-social interactions and their impact on physical and psychological aging.


• Comparative perspectives and cultural innovations: topics include ageing and development, ageing in a global context, migration, and cross-cultural perspectives on grandparenthood.


• Policy issues: covering policy concerns such aslong-term care, technology and older people, end of life issues, work and retirement, and the politics of old age.

This will be essential reading for all students, researchers and policy-makers concerned with the major issues influencing the lives of older people across the globe.

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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 Mc Creadie

End-of-Life Issues – Liz Lloyd

Ethics and Old Age: The Second Generation – Martha Holstein

The Politics of Ageing – Susan A. Mac Manus with the assistance of Andrea L. Polk and David J. Bonanza

عن المؤلف

Chris Phillipson is Professor of Applied Social Studies and Social Gerontology at Keele University.