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A Research Agenda for Ageing and Social Policy
Foreword by Alan Walker, Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology, University of Sheffield, UK
Written by a global collective of scholars from a wide variety of backgrounds, including health studies, psychology and economics as well as social policy and gerontology, this timely Research Agenda highlights the challenges and opportunities of rising longevity and population ageing for social policy providing clear directions for future research.
Written by a global collective of scholars from a wide variety of backgrounds, including health studies, psychology and economics as well as social policy and gerontology, this timely Research Agenda highlights the challenges and opportunities of rising longevity and population ageing for social policy providing clear directions for future research.
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Critical Acclaim
Contributors
Contents
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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.
Written by a global collective of scholars from a wide variety of backgrounds, including health studies, psychology and economics as well as social policy and gerontology, this timely Research Agenda highlights the challenges and opportunities of rising longevity and population ageing for social policy providing clear directions for future research.
Divided into five comprehensive parts, this Research Agenda examines research priorities from policy perspectives, the role of social policy research in relation to intergovernmental organisations, and the framework for future-oriented social policies on ageing provided by a life-course approach. It demonstrates that social policy experts must evaluate interests and expectations both qualitatively and quantitatively, and asserts that future research on social policy and ageing will be inspired by a broad range of stakeholders, including non-governmental interest organisations and state actors.
A Research Agenda for Ageing and Social Policy will be enlightening for students and researchers focusing on social policy, ageing, development, health policy and inequality. It will also be a fascinating read for practitioners seeking a wider understanding of social policy priorities and processes.
Written by a global collective of scholars from a wide variety of backgrounds, including health studies, psychology and economics as well as social policy and gerontology, this timely Research Agenda highlights the challenges and opportunities of rising longevity and population ageing for social policy providing clear directions for future research.
Divided into five comprehensive parts, this Research Agenda examines research priorities from policy perspectives, the role of social policy research in relation to intergovernmental organisations, and the framework for future-oriented social policies on ageing provided by a life-course approach. It demonstrates that social policy experts must evaluate interests and expectations both qualitatively and quantitatively, and asserts that future research on social policy and ageing will be inspired by a broad range of stakeholders, including non-governmental interest organisations and state actors.
A Research Agenda for Ageing and Social Policy will be enlightening for students and researchers focusing on social policy, ageing, development, health policy and inequality. It will also be a fascinating read for practitioners seeking a wider understanding of social policy priorities and processes.
Critical Acclaim
‘The changes in the age structure of the population have preoccupied science, politics and civil society for many years. Approaches to record the associated concomitant phenomena in a comprehensive and internationally comparable scientific framework and to prepare the results for ageing and social policy measures have so far remained largely inconsequential. However, in order to plan and implement an efficient and successful ageing and social policy, a sound empirical basis is required. Creating such a foundation is the aim of the researchers who have come together for this book. Their contributions take into account the diverse geographical, historical, cultural, structural and social conditions that are significant for a good life in old age. On behalf of AGE Platform Europe, with over 100 member organisations and a strong voice of older people in Europe, I expressly welcome this initiative and wish the book and its contents a wide distribution and application.’
– Heidrun Mollenkopf, President, AGE Platform Europe, Belgium
‘It is my great pleasure to warmly welcome this important book, which sets out a comprehensive research agenda for ageing and social policy. The authors perform a valuable task for all of us who seek not only to research the topic of ageing but also to transform the prospects for later life (..) The expert authors the editors have assembled, the wide variety of topics they address, and the logical structure of the book, building towards a specific agenda for research on ageing and social policy, make for a highly significant contribution to gerontology. (…) This valuable addition to the literature on ageing and social policy should become a lasting point of reference for researchers. I hope that it will also be influential in research funding circles.’
– Alan Walker, Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology, University of Sheffield, UK
‘In all countries, increased longevity and an increasing share of older persons in the population are considered a major challenge. Coupled with reduced fertility we see challenges in the provison of care and social services, pension schemes, and an adequate workforce. This book reviews research on demographic change, its determinants and consequences, but also takes a constructive tone on possibilities and solutions for sustained welfare systems. The book presents a research agenda and an agenda for social policy aiming at promoting active ageing and solidarity across generations. While based on academic research, the content is presented in a form easily digestible for policy makers.’
– Peter Allebeck, Professor of Social Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Chair of the Joint Programming Initiative ‘More Years, Better Lives’, Sweden
– Heidrun Mollenkopf, President, AGE Platform Europe, Belgium
‘It is my great pleasure to warmly welcome this important book, which sets out a comprehensive research agenda for ageing and social policy. The authors perform a valuable task for all of us who seek not only to research the topic of ageing but also to transform the prospects for later life (..) The expert authors the editors have assembled, the wide variety of topics they address, and the logical structure of the book, building towards a specific agenda for research on ageing and social policy, make for a highly significant contribution to gerontology. (…) This valuable addition to the literature on ageing and social policy should become a lasting point of reference for researchers. I hope that it will also be influential in research funding circles.’
– Alan Walker, Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology, University of Sheffield, UK
‘In all countries, increased longevity and an increasing share of older persons in the population are considered a major challenge. Coupled with reduced fertility we see challenges in the provison of care and social services, pension schemes, and an adequate workforce. This book reviews research on demographic change, its determinants and consequences, but also takes a constructive tone on possibilities and solutions for sustained welfare systems. The book presents a research agenda and an agenda for social policy aiming at promoting active ageing and solidarity across generations. While based on academic research, the content is presented in a form easily digestible for policy makers.’
– Peter Allebeck, Professor of Social Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Chair of the Joint Programming Initiative ‘More Years, Better Lives’, Sweden
Contributors
Contributors include: Toni C. Antonucci, Liat Ayalon, Martha C. Bial, Nikolai Botev, Tine Buffel, Robin C. Fenley, Julia Ferre, Poliana Fialho de Carvalho, Marvin Formosa, Krzysztof Hagemejer, Sarah Harper, Frank Hoffer, Norah Keating, Kathrin Komp-Leukkunen, Teppo Kröger, Giovanni Lamura, Kai Leichsenring, Peter Lloyd-Sherlock, Claudia Mahler, Jasmine A. Manale, Anne Meissner, Laura Naegele, Henk Nies, Alexander Peine, Michał Polakowski, Anette Scoppetta, Alexandre Sidorenko, Oxana Sinyavskaya, Clemens Tesch-Römer, Virpi Timonen, Maria Varlamova, Anna Wanka, Yanan Zhang
Contents
Contents:
Foreword xv
Preface xvii
PART I INTRODUCTION
1 Introduction: why do we need a research agenda
for ageing and social policy in the 21st century? 3
Kai Leichsenring and Alexandre Sidorenko
PART II CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF
AGEING AND SOCIAL POLICIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
2 Population ageing and the demographic deficit:
exploring the second demographic dividend 21
Sarah Harper and Yanan Zhang
3 Healthy ageing policies from regional and global
perspectives: challenges for social policies and
research 41
Norah Keating, Virpi Timonen and Tine Buffel
PART III PRIORITIES FOR SOCIAL POLICY RESEARCH
IN THE CONTEXT OF POPULATION AND
INDIVIDUAL AGEING
4 Ageism and public policies: research on age
discrimination at the societal level 63
Clemens Tesch-Römer and Liat Ayalon
5 The future of active ageing and related needs for
research 83
Oxana Sinyavskaya
6 Shifts in social policies for old age: towards a life
course approach of active ageing? 99
Kathrin Komp-Leukkunen and Marvin Formosa
7 Labour market research for an ageing workforce
in times of digitalisation 113
Anette Scoppetta, Laura Naegele and
Maria Varlamova
8 Digitalisation and population ageing: social policy
dimensions of the digital divide and innovation 131
Alexander Peine, Anne Meissner and
Anna Wanka
9 Social relations and the family 151
Toni C. Antonucci, Jasmine A. Manalel,
Robin C. Fenley and Martha C. Bial
10 Rising longevity and health care systems: the need
for a new approach in social and health policies
and research 167
Peter Lloyd-Sherlock and Poliana Fialho de Carvalho
11 Longer lives with long-term care needs: research
needed to tackle the care gap 183
Giovanni Lamura and Henk Nies
12 Towards the caring or the uncaring state? A social
policy perspective on long-term care trends 203
Teppo Kröger
PART IV PERSPECTIVES FROM INTERNATIONAL
STAKEHOLDERS
13 Social policy research on ageing needed from the
perspective of intergovernmental organisations 221
Nikolai Botev, Julia Ferre and Claudia Mahler
14 Social policy research on the ageing workforce
from the perspective of employees and employers 239
Krzysztof Hagemejer, Frank Hoffer and Michał Polakowski
PART V CONCLUSIONS
15 Conclusion: towards a research agenda for ageing
and social policy in the 21st century 261
Kai Leichsenring and Alexandre Sidorenko
Index 275
Foreword xv
Preface xvii
PART I INTRODUCTION
1 Introduction: why do we need a research agenda
for ageing and social policy in the 21st century? 3
Kai Leichsenring and Alexandre Sidorenko
PART II CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF
AGEING AND SOCIAL POLICIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
2 Population ageing and the demographic deficit:
exploring the second demographic dividend 21
Sarah Harper and Yanan Zhang
3 Healthy ageing policies from regional and global
perspectives: challenges for social policies and
research 41
Norah Keating, Virpi Timonen and Tine Buffel
PART III PRIORITIES FOR SOCIAL POLICY RESEARCH
IN THE CONTEXT OF POPULATION AND
INDIVIDUAL AGEING
4 Ageism and public policies: research on age
discrimination at the societal level 63
Clemens Tesch-Römer and Liat Ayalon
5 The future of active ageing and related needs for
research 83
Oxana Sinyavskaya
6 Shifts in social policies for old age: towards a life
course approach of active ageing? 99
Kathrin Komp-Leukkunen and Marvin Formosa
7 Labour market research for an ageing workforce
in times of digitalisation 113
Anette Scoppetta, Laura Naegele and
Maria Varlamova
8 Digitalisation and population ageing: social policy
dimensions of the digital divide and innovation 131
Alexander Peine, Anne Meissner and
Anna Wanka
9 Social relations and the family 151
Toni C. Antonucci, Jasmine A. Manalel,
Robin C. Fenley and Martha C. Bial
10 Rising longevity and health care systems: the need
for a new approach in social and health policies
and research 167
Peter Lloyd-Sherlock and Poliana Fialho de Carvalho
11 Longer lives with long-term care needs: research
needed to tackle the care gap 183
Giovanni Lamura and Henk Nies
12 Towards the caring or the uncaring state? A social
policy perspective on long-term care trends 203
Teppo Kröger
PART IV PERSPECTIVES FROM INTERNATIONAL
STAKEHOLDERS
13 Social policy research on ageing needed from the
perspective of intergovernmental organisations 221
Nikolai Botev, Julia Ferre and Claudia Mahler
14 Social policy research on the ageing workforce
from the perspective of employees and employers 239
Krzysztof Hagemejer, Frank Hoffer and Michał Polakowski
PART V CONCLUSIONS
15 Conclusion: towards a research agenda for ageing
and social policy in the 21st century 261
Kai Leichsenring and Alexandre Sidorenko
Index 275
