Overview
- Australian developments in ageing: issues and history
- Cultural diversity, health, and ageing
- Indigenous Australians and ageing: responding to diversity in policy and practice
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Aging (Int. Perspect. Aging, volume 16)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Dimensions of Ageing
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Living and Lifestyle
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Policy and Practice in Health and Care
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Actions and Directions
Keywords
- Aged care service delivery in Australia
- Aging in Australia
- Attitudes about aging
- Demographics of Australia
- Developmental aspects of aging in Australia
- Economics of aging in Australia
- Environments of Aging
- Health and aging in Australia
- Indigenous Australians and aging
- Life expectancy in Australia
- Older workforce in Australia
- Politics of older Australians
- Population growth in Australia
- Quality of life in Australia
- Retirement in Australia
- Social aspects of aging in Australia
- Social policy in Australia
- Support networks in Australia
About this book
Included in the coverage:
· Australian developments in ageing: issues and history.
· Cultural diversity, health, and ageing.
· Indigenous Australians and ageing: responding to diversity in policy and practice.
· Enhancing the health and employment participation of older workers.
· Housing and the environments of ageing.
· Health services and care for older people.The rich examples in Ageing in Australia contain a depth of understanding and evidence for sociologists, gerontologists and psychologists studying ageing, health care professionals providing care to older people, and policy analysts assessing areas for improvement.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kate O’Loughlin PhD is an associate professor in the Ageing, Work and Health Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney and Associate Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR). A/Professor O’Loughlin is a health sociologist with research interests in ageing and health particularly around workforce participation, the competing demands of work and care, attitudes to ageing, and age discrimination.
Colette Browning PhD is the Director of the RDNS Institute, Honorary Professor at Peking University, Research Director of the Shenzhen International Primary Health Care Research Institute and Adjunct Professor at Monash University. Professor Browning is recognised as a national and international leader in psychology and health with a special focus on healthy ageing. She is a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society and Associate Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR).
Hal Kendig PhD is Professor of Ageing and Public Policy at the Australian National University’s Centre for Research on Ageing, Health and Wellbeing in the Research School of Population Health; and is a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR). He is a gerontologist and sociologist with primary research interests in socio-economic determinants over the life span, attitudes to ageing, housing and health, community care services and policies, and ageing in Asia. Professor Kendig is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, a Life Member of COTA, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Australian Association of Gerontology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ageing in Australia
Book Subtitle: Challenges and Opportunities
Editors: Kate O’Loughlin, Colette Browning, Hal Kendig
Series Title: International Perspectives on Aging
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6466-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-6464-2Published: 19 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-8209-7Published: 27 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-6466-6Published: 18 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2197-5841
Series E-ISSN: 2197-585X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 290
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Aging, Social Policy, Public Health, Quality of Life Research, Health Psychology