1. Introducing the growing older program on extending quality of life - 2. Qulaity of life in old age from the perspectives of older people - 3. Ethnic inequalities - 4. Environment, identity and old age: quality of life or a life of quality - 5. Poverty and social exclusion: growing older in deprived urban neighbourhoods - 6. Lonliness in later life - 7. Older men: their health behaviours and partnership status - 8. A participatory approach to older women's quality of life - 9. Social support and ethnicity inold age - 10. The meaning of grandparenthood and its contribution to the quality of life in older people - 11. Frailty and institutional life - 12. Conclusion
