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A Multidisciplinary Approach to Capability in Age and Ageing

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Capability in Age and Ageing

Falk Erhag, Hanna
Lagerlöf Nilsson, Ulrika
Rydberg Sterner, Therese

Hardcover

Series: International Perspectives on Aging, Book 31

Medical ReferenceGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3030780627
ISBN13: 9783030780623
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jan 11 2022
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.50
Language: English

This open access book provides insight on how to interpret capability in ageing - one's individual ability to perform actions in order to reach goals one has reason to value - from a multidisciplinary approach. With for the first time in history there being more people in the world aged 60 years and over than there are children below the age of 5, the book describes this demographic trends as well as the large global challenges and important societal implications this will have such as a worldwide increase in the number of persons affected with dementia, and in the ratio of retired persons to those still in the labor market. Through contributions from many different research areas, it discussed how capability depends on interactions between the individual (e.g. health, genetics, personality, intellectual capacity), environment (e.g. family, friends, home, work place), and society (e.g. political decisions, ageism, historical period). The final chapter summarizes the differencesand similarities in these contributions. As such this book provides an interesting read for students, teachers and researchers at different levels and from different fields interested in capability and multidisciplinary research.

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