A Review of Demographic Ageing in the UK: Opportunities for Rural Research

Demographic ageing is a global phenomenon. UK policy and research have, until recently, focused on national trends and implications and largely viewed ageing as a 'pensions and care' problem. While other and more positive aspects are beginning to be acknowledged, regional, local, and rural impacts remain underinvestigated. This paper, by reviewing the literature from several disciplines and countries, introduces a series of research questions that could usefully inform future geographical inquiry. It argues that the nature, experiences, and consequences of demographic ageing will vary across space, stage in the life course and numerous aspects of our everyday lives. Our current knowledge and understanding are but the tip of the iceberg in terms of the research opportunities that lie ahead.

Determinants of European tourism demand in a demographic ageing society

This study identifies the senior European tourists determinants that explained their decisions to go on holidays. The empirical study was conducted among European tourists by applying a logit model. The model intends to explain the determinants related to the decision to go on holidays since the probability of a senior European tourist taking holidays in a country depends on a mix of motives as previous travel experience and demographic characteristics. Policy and theoretical implications are derived for contributing to the discussion between demographic variables and tourism demand choice patterns.

Determinants of European tourism demand in a demographic ageing society

This study identifies the senior European tourists determinants that explained their decisions to go on holidays. The empirical study was conducted among European tourists by applying a logit model. The model intends to explain the determinants related to the decision to go on holidays since the probability of a senior European tourist taking holidays in a country depends on a mix of motives as previous travel experience and demographic characteristics. Policy and theoretical implications are derived for contributing to the discussion between demographic variables and tourism demand choice patterns.

Ageing through Austerity: critical perspectives from Ireland

The book’s main contribution is the bringing together of varied discourses concerning the social policy impact of ageing within the context of fiscal austerity. As the editors rightly state, the economic recession has sharpened the focus of governments on the implication of demographic ageing. It is vital therefore, that the social policy implications of societal ageing are studied and understood within a wider political economy of austerity. Of course the fiscal crisis of the 1970s and the ensuing first wave of neo-liberalism in the Anglo-Saxon countries [in the 1980s] gave us a foretaste of the various ways in which the public burden thesis has been applied with great force to the older population. This recession is different, certainly in Ireland, but a combination of neo-liberal ideology and neo-classical economics is enforcing severe budgetary constraint on a range of countries (within and outside of the Eurozone) in the name of funding deficits. Policy makers appear to be disinterested in both the origins of the 2008 financial crisis and the distributional consequences of their austerity policies. In the absence of official concern social science research has a key role to play.

Ageing and development in a society for all ages

Includes bibliography

Ageing and Development Newsletter No. 3

Karoline Schmid: Caribbean challenges o f a global phenom enon. Harold Robinson: Information is the basis for effective action. Implementation of the Regional Strategy. Caribbean steps towards a society for all ages Montevideo: ECLAC called the attention of countries on social protection.

Ageing and Development Newsletter No. 5

Special Edition Brasilia 2007. Society for all ages and social protection in the old age. ECLAC: The challenges of the next half-decade. Demographic transition in the region: A rapid and heterogeneous ageing process. Situation of older persons: Income, health, environments and the public responses.

Care arrangements for people with dementia in developing countries

Background: Rapid demographic ageing will soon lead to large increases in the numbers of persons with dementia in developing countries. This study is the first comprehensive assessment of care arrangements for people with dementia in those regions. Methods: A descriptive and comparative study of dementia care; caregiver characteristics, the nature of care provided, and the practical, psychological (Zarit Burden Interview, General Health Questionnaire) and economic impact upon the caregiver in 24 centres in India, China and South East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean and Africa. Results: We interviewed 706 persons with dementia, and their caregivers. Most caregivers were women, living with the person with dementia in extended family households. One-quarter to one-half of households included a child. Larger households were associated with lower caregiver strain, where the caregiver was co-resident. However, despite the traditional apparatus of family care, levels of caregiver strain were at least as high as in the developed world. Many had cutback on work to care and faced the additional expense of paid carers and health services. Families from the poorest countries were particularly likely to have used expensive private medical services, and to be spending more than 10% of the per capita GNP on health care. Conclusions: Older people in developing countries are indivisible from their younger family members. The high levels of family strain identified in this study feed into the cycle of disadvantage and should thus be a concern for policymakers in the developing world. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Changing population age structures and their implications on socio-economic development in the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

Reflexiones, debates y consensos en torno al envejecimiento, las transferencias y la protección social

Incluye Bibliografía

Transferencias no contributivas a personas mayores. Análisis comparativo de dos programas: 70 y más y pensión alimentaria de la Ciudad de México

El trabajo compara dos programas de transferencias no contributivas a personas mayores (PTNCPM) en México: uno local (el Programa de la Pensión Alimentaria del Distrito Federal, creado en 2001) y otro nacional (el Programa 70 y Más, impulsado en 2007). Se documenta el proceso de envejecimiento de la población en los países de la Región Norte de América Latina y el Caribe; se revisan los principales instrumentos internacionales sobre los derechos de las personas mayores, así como los marcos jurídicos de ambos programas; se propone una guía para el análisis de los PTNCPM desde un enfoque de derechos, y se lleva a cabo una comparación sobre la base de diversas variables. Entre los hallazgos principales del trabajo se encontraron modificaciones de los criterios de elegibilidad: el programa nacional dejó de lado la universalidad para iniciar un proceso de focalización en 2012; la cobertura alcanzó el 100% en ambos casos y se redujo a casi 60% en el programa nacional y a 82% en el local; las prestaciones monetarias directas e indirectas en el caso local duplican las del nacional; en éste hay un sesgo de género favorable a los varones, mientras que en aquél es favorable a las mujeres; la sostenibilidad financiera está asegurada por ley sólo en el programa local; el presupuesto asignado como porcentaje del PIB es del doble en el caso local con respecto al nacional; y la capacitación de tomadores de decisiones, cuadros medios y personal operativo es fundamental para el mejoramiento y ampliación de los programas. Se concluye que el enfoque de derechos garantiza la institucionalidad y sostenibilidad de los programas, además de un ingreso mínimo universal que promueve la cohesión social.

América Latina y el Caribe: Desafíos y oportunidades de una sociedad que envejece

Sólo disponible en formato electrónico.