Section One: Fundamental and Disciplinary Perspectives on Ageing

The Study of the Life Course: Implications for Social Gerontology

Dale Dannefer and Richard A. Settersten, Jr.

Past as Prologue: Toward a Global History of Ageing

W. Andrew Achenbaum

The Economics of Ageing

James H. Schulz

Social Anthropology and Ageing

Christine L. Fry

The Demography of Ageing

Christina Victor

Epidemiology of Ageing

Dawn Alley and Eileen Crimmins

Disability and Ageing: The Social Construction of Causality

Jessica Kelley-Moore

Environmental Perspectives on Ageing

Hans-Werner Wahl and Frank Oswald

Section Two: Ageing and Social Structure

Age and Inequality in Global Context

Angela M. O'Rand, Katelin Isaacs, and Leslie Roth

Gender and Ageing in the Context of Globalization

Toni Calasanti

Ageing and Health among Hispanics/Latinos in the Americas

Kyriakos Markides, Jennifer Salinas, and Rebecca Wong

Religion and Age

Peter G. Coleman

Intergenerational Relationships of International Migrants in Developed Nations: The United States and France

Merril Silverstein and Claudine Attias-Donfut

Family and Age in a Global Perspective

Ariela Lowenstein and Ruth Katz

Intergenerational Relations: Asian Perspectives

Leng Leng Thang

Societal Dynamics in Personal Networks

Theo van Tilburg and Fleur Thomése

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Ageing: Shattering Myths, Capturing Lives

Dana Rosenfeld

Friendship and Ageing

Graham Allan

Section Three: Ageing and Individual Change

Age, Self and Identity in the Global Century

Jon Hendricks

Social Structure, Cognition and Ageing

Duane F. Alwin

Stress and Agentic Ageing: A Targeted Adaptation Model Focused on Cancer

Eva Kahana and Boaz Kahana

Agency and Social Structure in Ageing in Life Course Research

Victor W. Marshall and Philippa J. Clarke

Age, Experience and the Beginning of Wisdom

Monika Ardelt

Loneliness and Ageing: Comparative Perspectives

Marja Jylhä and Marja Saarenheimo

Biosocial Interactions in the Construction of Late Life Health Status

Kathryn Z. Douthit and Andre Marquis

Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment in Social and Cultural Context

Danny George and Peter Whitehouse

Socio-cultural Perspectives on Ageing Bodies

Stephen Katz

Time and Ageing: Enduring and Emerging Issues

Jan Baars

Section Four: Ageing, Culture and Development

Ageing and International Development

Peter Lloyd-Sherlock

Migration and Age

Tony Warnes

Global Ageing: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa

Isabella Aboderin

Population Ageing and Old Age Insurance in China

Zeng Yi and Linda K. George

Ageing in a Global Context: the Asia-Pacific Region

David R Phillips, Alfred C.M. Chan, and Sheung-Tak Cheng

The Significance of Grandparents to Grandchildren: An International Perspective

Peter Uhlenberg and Michelle Cheuk

A Social View on Healthy Ageing: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives and Australian Evidence

Kendig, H. and Browning, C.

Social Dimensions of Anti-Ageing Science and Medicine

Robert H. Binstock and Jennifer R. Fishman

The New Ageing Enterprise

Harry R. Moody

Section Five: Ageing and Social Policy

Social Policies for Ageing Societies: Perspectives from Europe

Thomas Scharf

Globalization, Social Policy and Ageing: A North American Perspective

Carroll L. Estes and Steven P. Wallace

Social Policies for Ageing Societies: Australasian Perspectives

Michael Fine and Sally Keeling

Cross National Trends in Work and Retirement

Philip Taylor

Continuous and Long-Term Care: European Perspectives

Caroline Glendinning

Long-term Care in China and Japan

Yun Zhou and Yuzhi Liu

Ageing and Quality of Life in Europe

Alan Walker

Later Life and Imprisonment

Azrini Wahidin and Ronald H. Aday

Ageing and Urban Society: Growing Old in the 'Century of the City'

Chris Phillipson

Technology and Older People

Claudine McCreadie

End of Life Issues

Liz Lloyd

Ethics and Old Age: The Second Generation

Martha Holstein

The Politics of Ageing

Susan A. MacManus with the assistance of Andrea L. Polk and David J. Bonanza