| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 288 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
The Trends Project series |
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Policy research (Toronto, Ont.)
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| Contents |
Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Contextualizing Demographic Concerns -- 2 Intergenerational Interlinkages: Public, Family, and Work -- 3 Aging, Language, and Culture -- 4 The Impact of Demographic and Social Trends on Informal Support for Older Persons -- 5 Aging and Productivity: What Do We Know? -- 6 Work and Leisure: A Question of Balance -- 7 Catching Up with Diversity in Intergenerational Relationships -- Appendix: Iowa City Declaration -- Bibliography |
| Summary |
The Canadian population is aging. As the "Baby-Boomer" generation reaches retirement age, policy-makers have begun to fear the economic and demographic challenges ahead. Aging and Demographic Change in Canadian Context responds to this alarmist view. The contributors present several alternative perspectives and question whether an aging society is necessarily inferior or problematic compared with the recent past, cautioning that exaggerated concerns about population aging can be harmful to rational policy making. The contributors argue that it is important to develop forward-looking programs that may influence life course trajectories in favourable directions, and that these new policies should be developed with respect to the life course considered as a whole. "Old age" is a slippery concept, and the effective boundaries between it and "middle age" are not always clear. The essays in Aging and Demographic Change in Canadian Context address these challenges and seek to broaden public discussion on aging and Canadian public policy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-288) |
| Subject |
Aging -- Social aspects -- Canada
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Age distribution (Demography) -- Canada
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Aging.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gerontology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Demography.
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Age distribution (Demography)
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Aging -- Social aspects
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Population
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Population policy
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Social conditions
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Altersstruktur
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Bevölkerungsentwicklung
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| SUBJECT |
Canada -- Population
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Canada -- Social conditions -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96000529
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Canada -- Population policy
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| Subject |
Canada
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Kanada
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cheal, David J
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| ISBN |
9781442670730 |
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1442670738 |
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