Handbook of Active Ageing and Quality of Life
From Concepts to Applications
(Sprache: Englisch)
This handbook presents an overview of studies on the relationship of active ageing and quality of life. It addresses the new challenges of ageing from the paradigm of positive ageing (active, healthy and successful) for a better quality of life. It provides...
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This handbook presents an overview of studies on the relationship of active ageing and quality of life. It addresses the new challenges of ageing from the paradigm of positive ageing (active, healthy and successful) for a better quality of life. It provides theoretical perspectives and empirical studies, including scientific knowledge as well as practical experiences about the good ageing and the quality of later life around the world, in order to respond to the challenges of an aged population. The handbook is structured in 4 sections covering theoretical and conceptual perspectives, social policy issues and research agenda, methods, measurement instrument-scales and evaluations, and lastly application studies including domains and geographical contexts. Chapter 5 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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Introduction.- Chapter 1. Introduction: Methodological and Empirical Advancements in Active Ageing and Quality of Life - Special Focuses of the Book (Gloria Fernández-Mayoralas, Fermina Rojo-Pérez).- Part I: Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives.- Chapter 2. Active Aging and Quality of Life (Rocío Fernández-Ballesteros, Marta Santacreu, Macarena Sánchez-Izquierdo).- Chapter 3. Active Ageing and the Longevity Revolution (Alexandre Kalache, Ina Voelcker).- Chapter 4. Active Ageing and Quality of Life: A Systematized Literature Review (Fermina Rojo-Pérez, Gloria Fernández-Mayoralas, Vicente Rodríguez-Rodríguez).- Chapter 5. The Life Course Construction of Inequalities in Health and Wealth in Old Age (Michel Oris, Marie Baeriswyl, Andreas Ihle).- Chapter 6. Lifelong Learning and Quality of Life (Mª Ángeles Molina, Rocío Schettini).- Chapter 7. Aging at a Developmental Crossroad: The Case for Generativity in Later Life (Feliciano Villar, Rodrigo Serrat).- Chapter 8. Quality of Life ofOlder People with Dementia (Beatriz León Salas, Maria-João Forjaz, Carmen Rodríguez-Blázquez, Pablo Martínez-Martín).- Part II: Social Policy Issues and Research Agenda.- Chapter 9. Developmental Social Policy and Active Aging with High Quality of Life. A Preventative, Life-Course-Oriented Approach (Christian Aspalter).- Chapter 10. "Active Ageing": Its Relevance from an Historical Perspective (Julio Pérez Díaz, Antonio Abellán García).- Chapter 11. Transnational Ageing and Quality of Life (Vincent Horn).- Chapter 12. What Should Guarantee Pensions Systems Designed with a Human Rights Based Approach? (Sol Minoldo, Enrique Peláez).- Chapter 13. Civil Society Organizations' Discourse and Interventions to Promote Active Ageing in Relation with the Quality of Life in Latin-America (Vicente Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Verónica Montes De Oca Zavala, Mariana Paredes, Sagrario Garay-Villegas).- Chapter 14. Outdoor Green Spaces and Active Ageing from the Perspective of Environmental Gerontology
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(DiegoSánchez-González, Carmen Egea-Jiménez).- Chapter 15. Active Ageing and Quality of Life: An Agenda for Scientific Research (Alan Walker).- Part III: Methods, Measurement Instruments-Scales, Evaluations.- Chapter 16. Active Ageing and Quality of Life. Measures, Instruments, and Applications (Carmen Rodríguez-Blázquez, Maria João Forjaz).-Chapter 17. Measuring the Impact of Active and Assisted Living (Aal) Solutions: An Analysis of Research Practices (Birgit Aigner-Walder, Albert Luger, Julia Himmelsbach).- Chapter 18. Quality of Later Life in Europe: An Econometric Analysis (Noelia Somarriba Arechavala, Pilar Zarzosa Espina, Patricia Gómez-Costilla).- Chapter 19. Proposals for Better Caring and Ageing: Results from Evaluation of Programmes (Mª Silveria Agulló-Tomás, Vanessa Zorrilla-Muñoz, Mª Victoria Gómez-García, Marian Blanco-Ruíz).- Chapter 20. Preventing Loneliness: Promising Insights for Achieving Active Aging and a Positive Quality of Life (José Buz, Jenny De Jong Giervel, DanielPerlman).- Part IV. Applications (Domains, Geographical Contexts).- Chapter 21. Gender Differences in Active Aging in Canada: The Roles of Insufficient Income and Violence (Maria Victoria Zunzunegui, Emmanuelle Belanger).- Chapter 22. Health and the Built Environment: Enhancing Healthy Aging through Environmental Interventions (Marcia G. Ory, Chanam Lee, Aya Yoshikawa).- Chapter 23. Cuba: Active Ageing and Quality of Life of Older Persons (Alina C. Alfonso León, Rolando. García Quiñones).- Chapter 24. Active Ageing for Quality of Later Life in México: The Role Of Physical and Social Environments (Sagrario Garay Villegas, Verónica Montes De Oca Zavala).- Chapter 25. Happiness as a Quality of Life Component for Active Ageing in Colombia (Doris Cardona A., Alejandra Segura C., Diana Isabel Muñoz R., Ángela Segura C.).- Chapter 26. Satisfaction with Quality of Life Among Ex-Combatants During the Reintegration Process: Colombia (Carlos Robledo Marín, Doris Cardona A.).- Chapter 27. Successful Aging and Quality of Life. A Cross-Ethnic Comparison in Chile (Esteban Sánchez-Moreno, Lorena Gallardo-Peralta, Vicente Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Abel Soto Higuera).- Chapter 28. Growing Older with Dignity: The Nature and Determinants of Quality of Life Among Older People in South Africa (Pranita Maharaj, Benjamin Roberts).- Chapter 29. Staying Engaged: Experiences and Opportunities for Diverse Populations to Age Well in Australia (Jackie Liddle, Nancy A. Pachana).- Chapter 30. Age-Friendly Environments and Active Aging for Community-Based Older People Living in Beijing, China (Yang Cheng, Jing Xi, Mark Rosenberg).- Chapter 31. Successful Aging and Active Aging in Taiwan. From Concept to Application: Micro and Macro Perspectives (Hui-Chuan Hsu).- Chapter 32. Social Participation, Occupational Activities and Quality of Life in Older Europeans: A Focus on the Oldest Old (Lia Araujo, Laetitia Teixeira, Oscar Ribeiro, Constança Paul).- Chapter 33. Quality of Life of Older Swedes (Deborah Finkel, Gerdt Sundström).- Chapter 34. Active Ageing as Framework for a Quality of Life Enabling Environment in Nursing Homes in Flanders, Belgium (Ellen Gorus, Patricia De Vriendt, Lien Van Malderen).- Chapter 35. Activities to Address Quality of Life Between Urban and Rural Ageing People in the Czech Republic (Marcela Petrová Kafková).- Chapter 36. Active Ageing: Conceptual Developments, International Experiences and Recent Policy Strategies in Italy (Claudia Di Matteo, Giovanni Lamura, Andrea Principi).- Chapter 37. Multimorbidity, Social Networks and Health-Related Wellbeing at the End of the Life Course (Dolores Puga, Celia Fernández-Carro, Hermenegildo Fernández-Abascal).- Chapter 38. Care and Active Ageing (María Teresa Martín Palomo, María Pía Venturiello, Gloria Fernández-Mayoralas, María Eugenia Prieto-Flores).- Chapter 39. Residential Environment and Active Ageing: The Role of Physical Barriers in Leisure Participation (María-Eugenia Prieto-Flores, Raúl Lardiés-Bosque, Fermina Rojo-Pérez).
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Autoren-Porträt
Fermina Rojo-Perez is a Research Scientist at the Institute of Economics, Geography and Demography (IEGD), in the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain. She carries out her work in the Research Group on Ageing (GIE-CSIC) and belongs to the Spanish Research Group on Quality of Life and Ageing (CSIC and ISCIII) as a multidisciplinary net. The domains related to age-friendly settings and living conditions, as facilitators or inhibitors for an active ageing with quality of life, are among its priority research topics, approached through quantitative, qualitative and mixed methodology, and from a scientific and lay-perspectives. She has coordinated several research projects and networks on active ageing, and participates in projects on the topic of interest. Currently, she is involved in research on social and gerontological aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic in older people living in different residential environments (family home, long-term care settings). Other line ofresearch deals with the age-friendly communities and its domains, focusing on the social inclusion to deepen into the stereotypes of old age. She belongs to several scientific societies (AGE, SEGG, ISQOLS), disseminates her research in monographs and in scientific journals of impact, and has been a co-partner, jointly with the research groups, of various awards.Gloria Fernandez-Mayoralas holds a PhD in Human Geography by Complutense University at Madrid. She is a Research Scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), where she directed the Institute of Economics, Geography and Demography (IEGD) between 2011 and 2019. She works in the field of population studies, focusing on living conditions, wellbeing, and quality of life in old age, particularly on health conditions and physical and social environments for an active ageing. Dr. Fernandez-Mayoralas belongs to the Research Group on Ageing (GIE-CSIC) and is also involved in the Spanish Research Group on Quality
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ofLife and Ageing, a multidisciplinary network between CSIC and the Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII) for the study of active ageing and quality of life of older adults living in different residential contexts. From 2016 to 2022 she is coordinating the Program "Active Ageing, Quality of Life and Gender" (ENCAGE-CM), a research consortium forms by CSIC, ISCIII, public and private universities, companies providing health and social services, and Third Sector and Civil Society Organizations.
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Bibliographische Angaben
- 2021, 1st ed. 2021, XXII, 655 Seiten, Maße: 17,8 x 25,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Fermina Rojo-Pérez, Gloria Fernández-Mayoralas
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 303058030X
- ISBN-13: 9783030580308
Sprache:
Englisch
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