Macro-theorizing in studies of aging is quite rare. Although references to an “aging society” are frequent they, for the most part, are mostly not elaborated theoretically. The “aging society” is, however, not only a society composed of home care, nursing homes or gerontological laboratories. Nor is it just the abstract world of demographic figures and their extrapolations. The issues that are referred to with the metaphor “aging society” are part of and influenced by a historical reality which goes through rapid changes at an increasingly interconnected macro level. The transition to an “aging society” is at the same time a transition to a globalizing world of ICT-networks and bio-technology. Such changes may to an important degree situate and qualify what happens at a more local or communal level. Although the presence of more older people will change the societies they live in, technical, political and cultural developments in these societies are equally influential in shaping their lives.