Ageing Equitably with Care: Power, Policy, Practice / edited by Tamara Daly and Susan Braedley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Daly, Tamara, editor.

Braedley, Susan, 1955- editor.

Ågotnes, Gudmund.

Blix-Hansen, Bodil.

McCoy, Madeline.

Ysseldyk, Renate.

Charlesworth, Sara.

F. Jacobsen, Frode.

Laxer, Katherine.

Baines, Donna.

Streeter, Christine.

Series:

Ageing in a global context

Ageing in a Global Context Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages : illustrations)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

What are the consequences of growing old and needing care in a world shaped by inequality? Who provides the care? What are the challenges? Older adults’ civic engagement has become a key concern in academic and policy debates in recent years. However, existing studies on this topic remain fragmented across various conceptual and methodological approaches.This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and multidimensional perspective on older adults' civic engagement. It proposes a conceptual framework which understands civic engagement as a multidimensional concept encompassing a diversity of activities through which older adults contribute to their communities and wider society. Contributors explore the factors shaping older adults’ participation in various civic activities across the life course, considering their diversity in terms of social locations such as gender, health status, migrant background, socioeconomic background and residential arrangements.By analysing past and current research, policy and practice, the book offers recommendations for future efforts to advance the field.

Contents:

Front Cover

Ageing Equitably with Care: Power, Policy, Practice

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Series editors' preface Chris Phillipson (University of Manchester, UK), Toni Calasanti (Virginia, Tech, USA) and Anna Wanka (Goethe-​Universit ä t, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) As the older population continues to expand across the global N

List of figures and tables

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Ageing with care: aiming for equity and inclusion

Introduction

Our research project

This book

Part I: Power, knowledge, skills

Part II: Policies, practices, people

Notes

References

Part I Power, knowledge, skills

2 Traversing the cityscape: locating age-​friendly, age inclusion and age equity

Our approach

Traversing the cityscape from age-​friendly towards age equity and age inclusion

Age-​friendly

Age inclusive

Age equity

Conclusion

3 Age-​friendly for all? Equality and equity in the changing landscape of the social democratic welfare state

Background

A changing welfare state?

Age-​friendliness in the changing Nordic welfare state

Equality and equity in the changing welfare state

4 Who gets counted? Ageing statistics and advancing age equity

Canadian and international health surveys

Canadian surveys

International surveys

Gender and culture: who is included and excluded?

Sex and gender identity

Culture, ethnicity, religion, and indigeneity

Promising practices in data collection

Discussion and implications for age-​equity

5 Counting care workers: when the 'muddle' is the message

Defining data gaps

Data strength

Data clarity

Public availability

Comparing the care work data regimes.

Australia

Canada

Norway

6 Ageing, intersectionality, social location and identity

A brief review: intersectional literature

Individual-​based and singular analyses of identity

Alternatives to individually-​based, singular analyses of identity

Further intersectional analysis and theory drawing on field note examples

Age-​friendly cities and conceptual tools for intersectional analyses

Other critical skills

Discussion and conclusions

Part II Policies, practices, people

7 Queering age-​friendliness: addressing safety, indicating equity

Why queer age-​friendly movements?

Our research

Queering age-friendliness: it's about safety

Indicators to advance age-​equity that include queer older adults

Evidence that power has been shifted to diverse 2SLGBTQI groups and communities

Evidence of 2SLGBTQI meaningful representation in policy and practice decision-​making

Evidence of sectoral and organisational change to affirm 2SLGBTQI service users and workers

Ensure 2SLGBTQI representation and employment equity in the workforce

Ensure evidence-​informed training throughout organisations to promote 2SLGBTQI safety and accessibility

Make 2SLGBTQI affirmation visible in signs, symbols and celebrations

Queering age-​friendly: next steps

8 Super-​invisibility: 'older' care workers in home care and residential long-​term care

Invisibility traps for older LTC workers

Invisibility trap 1: Precarious work leads to pension precarity

Invisibility trap 2: Retention is not working

Invisibility trap 3: Unacceptably low health and safety protections

Invisibility trap 4: Data gaps

Where to from here? Age-​inclusive bargaining to address age equity

Skills and pay.

'Age-​equitable' bargaining

Concluding thoughts: Making older care workers super- ​ visible

9 Resistance, resilience and relationship: Indigenous older adults and ageing in the Canadian city

Data considerations with Indigenous older adult population size

Indigenous older adults' health: the problem of statistics

Settler colonialism's impact on Indigenous Peoples' health

Settler colonialism and ageing

Loss of culture

Poverty and disability

Racism

(Dis)connection

Forced migration

Relationships and ageing

Relationship to home in the city

Relationships with other indigenous older adults

Relationships with health and social care workers

Concluding thoughts

Note

10 Triple jeopardy: addressing age equity for older immigrant women

The studies

Older immigrant women in Canada: a focus on care labour

Triple jeopardy: the conditions of ageing and caring for immigrant older women

Jeopardy 1: Material conditions

Jeopardy 2: Language, loneliness and social isolation

Jeopardy 3: The material conditions of ethnocultural groups for older adults

Advancing age equity: concluding remarks

11 'East' meets 'West': trans-​national ageing in a space of 'cultural liminality'

Our example

Cultural liminality 1: Political and economic security

Cultural liminality 2: State support for older adults

Cultural liminality 3: Family formation and gender roles

Cultural liminality 4: Normative views of ageing

Cultural liminality: a useful concept for policy and practice

12 The promise of dementia-​friendly approaches: addressing stigma

Age-​ and dementia-​friendly communities

Stigma and dementia.

Friendships as a central feature of dementia-​friendly communities

13 Addressing social barriers to age-​equitable public transportation: don't miss the bus!

Transportation, social exclusion and social isolation

Older adults' transport disadvantage in Ottawa: the study

Moving along: what makes for age-​equitable public transit?

Moving along: filling the gaps with community-​based transportation

Moving toward age-​equitable public transportation

14 Your days are numbered: active ageing, wearable technologies and surveillance capitalism

Setting the context: the roots of active ageing

Current formulations of active ageing

Neo-​liberalism and surveillance capitalism

Fitbit: a health-care company?

Implications

Neo-​liberal monitoring

Narrowed meaning of health

Responsibilisation

Synergies between age-​friendly cities and surveillance capitalism

15 The longevity divide in a globalised climate - a forward conclusion

Setting the stage: tensions between economic and political freedoms

Post-​First World War, Keynesianism and welfare state programs

Advancing neo-​liberalism

Economic globalisation

New phase: divide and conquer

New market frontiers

Getting in the zone

Weakening solidarity, spreading divisions

Fighting back: climate change and Swiss Grannies

A forward conclusion: Why the new processes of economic globalisation matter for ageing

Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-4473-7506-8

OCLC:

1513357243