Introduction: An Introduction to the Ageing World Ahead
PART ONE: The Global Challenge of Ageing and the Global Response
1. The Global Challenge of Ageing and the Global Context
2. The International Challenge of Ageing and the International Response
PART TWO: The National Challenge of Ageing and the National Response
3. The Demographic Challenge and the Government’s Response
4. The Economic and Social Challenges of Ageing in the U.K. today
PART THREE: The New Old, the New Young and the Forces for Change
5. The New Old and the New Young: Baby Boomers, Generations X, Y and Z; and Intergenerational Relations Today
6. The New Old and their Powers for Change
PART FOUR: Towards a New Sociology of Ageing for the 21st Century
7. Towards a New Age Paradigm, Manifesto and Intergenerational Social Contract
8. Towards the Ageless Society of the Future, and the Ageing World Ahead
Biography
Martin Slattery is a retired Sixth-Form College Principal and Senior Education Officer who has previously written a number of introductory and specialist texts in Sociology including The ABC of Sociology (1985), Key Ideas in Sociology (2003), Urban Sociology (1985) and Official Statistics (1986). Since retiring, he has focused on the emerging topic of Ageing and Longevity in the 21st century with the publication of The Ageing of Great Britain in 2019.
