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Leisure and Ageing

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In the field of ageing, three basic areas of enquiry have been pursued by gerontologists over the past half-century: ‘the aged’ as members of increasingly aged populations in human societies; basic ‘processes and mechanisms of ageing’ in cells, organisms and individuals within ageing populations, and ‘age as a dimension’ of social organization and public policy in industrialized societies (Bengtson et al., 1999). In social gerontology, especially, there has been an increase in theoretical and empirical analyses concerning the consequences of population ageing, the changing status of ageing individuals in society, the social processes of ageing in complex and changing societies, and the interdependency of age groups in the generational compact (Johnson, 1996). From a comparative perspective studies on ageing seek to understand processes of ageing and the status of the elderly in different cultural and historical contexts.

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  1. Faculty of Law and Social Science, Brunel University, West London, UK

    Chris Rojek

  2. Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Susan M. Shaw

  3. School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

    A. J. Veal

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Harahousou, Y. (2006). Leisure and Ageing. In: Rojek, C., Shaw, S.M., Veal, A.J. (eds) A Handbook of Leisure Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230625181_14

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