Over recent decades, population aging has become a truly global issue and has increasingly moved to the center of public attention. In this collection, leading international experts in the political and social sciences, demography, and history analyze the political and social consequences of demographic aging. The steadily rising share of retirees has put pension systems under increasing pressure and has provoked profound pension reforms in many industrialized countries. At the same time, aging societies experience significant changes both in the established patterns of transition from work to retirement and in the traditional concepts of retirement and old age. Running alongside the shift in the balance between younger and older people, the questions of generational justice have increasingly gained prominence in the Western world. This book is essential reading for all those concerned with the profound challenges faced by an aging world.
- ISBN10 1137283173
- ISBN13 9781137283177
- Publish Date 16 June 2015 (first published 14 January 2014)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format eBook
- Pages 320
- Language English