113 FOUR Maintaining health and well- being: overcoming barriers to healthy ageing Sara Arber, Ann Bowling, Andrea Creech, Myanna Duncan, Anna Goulding, Diane Gyi, Susan Hallam, Cheryl Haslam, Aadil Kazi, Liz Lloyd, Janet Lord, MAP2030 team, Mike Murphy, Andrew Newman, Anna C. Phillips, Ricardo Twumasi and Jane Upton This chapter concentrates on health and well-being, drawing on 11 New Dynamics of Ageing (NDA) projects covering the whole range, from basic biology to the arts and humanities. Our main purpose is to employ the findings from our projects to
59 FOUR Healthy ageing across the life course Diana Kuh, Rebecca Hardy, Catharine Gale, Jane Elliott, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Rachel Cooper and the HALCyon team Introduction The New Dynamics of Ageing (NDA) project Healthy Ageing across the Life Course (HALCyon) responded to a growing consensus from scientists, research funders and policymakers that ageing needs to be studied from an interdisciplinary and life course perspective to inform strategies for maintaining a population that remains healthy and independent for longer. Healthy ageing is a term that is
69 FIVE Healthy ageing: upstream actions to prevent illness introduction In this chapter the aim is to explore in greater depth the idea of primary prevention in health, often referred to as ‘upstream’ action. In the context of health, the idea of prevention is complicated by the different ways of conceptualising health. The key focus of upstream interventions to promote health in later life is on the gap between life expectancy and healthy life expectancy. The idea of the compression of morbidity has generated a plethora of studies designed to identify
focus of this chapter. We present a case study of ‘Neighbourhood Networks’ in Leeds to explore how their work in support of ‘healthy ageing’ has been affected by the pandemic. Each ‘Leeds Neighbourhood Network’ (LNN) is an independent VSO that aims to support older people (referred to as their ‘members’) to live independently and to participate in their communities through a range of activities and services that are provided at a neighbourhood level. The LNNs grew from a single initiative established in 1986 as ‘Belle Isle Elderly Winter Aid’ that was set up to
Drawing on case studies of two ageing rural communities in north-east Victoria, Australia, this article explores how older volunteers both contribute to, and are supported by, third sector activities and services within rural environments. As such, volunteer activities build healthy ageing in rural settings, and contribute to community viability. However, further analyses suggest that reliance on third sector voluntarism also presents serious challenges for the future. This is particularly the case in relation to the sustainability of healthy ageing in rural settings where public sector resources are being rationalised. Our findings show that there are risks associated with an over-reliance on volunteers in rural communities and with the excessive regulation of volunteers unless appropriate infrastructure and support are provided.
This controversial book argues that concepts such as ‘successful’ and ‘active’ ageing - ubiquitous terms in research, marketing and policy making concerned with older adults – are potentially dangerous paradigms that reflect and exacerbate inequalities in older populations.
This author presents a new theory to make sense of the popularity of these ‘successful’ and ‘active’ ageing concepts. Readers are invited to view them through the prism of Model Ageing – a theory that throws light on the causes and consequences of attempts to model ageing as a phenomenon and stage of life that is in need of direction, reshaping and control.
This is essential reading for anyone seeking to make sense of social constructions of ageing in contemporary societies.
This volume and its companion, The new dynamics of ageing volume 2, provide comprehensive multi-disciplinary overviews of the very latest research on ageing. It reports the outcomes of the most concerted investigation ever undertaken into both the influence shaping the changing nature of ageing and its consequences for individuals and society.
This book concentrates on three major themes: active ageing, design for ageing well and the relationship between ageing and socio-economic development. Each chapter provides a state of the art topic summary as well as reporting the essential research findings from New Dynamics of Ageing research projects. There is a strong emphasis on the practical implications of ageing and how evidence-based policies, practices and new products can produce individual and societal benefits.
of the term ‘the fourth age’, their formulations presume an inherent duality to old age – a ‘good’ versus a ‘bad’ old age, with ‘successful’ versus ‘unsuccessful’ outcomes. This latter distinction – ‘successful’ versus ‘unsuccessful’ ageing – has gained considerable traction since it was first outlined by Rowe and Kahn in their paper on ‘usual’ versus ‘successful’ ageing. They intended to challenge what they called ‘a gerontology of the usual’ by stressing the distinction between normal ageing as disease-free healthy ageing and ‘ageing as usual’, with its
The voluntary sector was central to the COVID-19 response: fulfilling basic needs, highlighting new and existing inequalities and coordinating action where the state had been slow to respond.
This book curates rigorous academic, policy and practice-based research into the response and adaptation of the UK voluntary sector during the pandemic. Contributions explore the ways the sector responded to new challenges and the longer-term consequences for the sector’s workforce, volunteers and beneficiaries.
Written for researchers and practitioners, this book considers what the voluntary sector can learn from the pandemic to maximise its contribution in the event of future crises.
Our societies are ageing, and we need to identify sustainable and person-centred solutions for supporting frail older people in their homes.
Reablement offers a radical new integrated care approach which supports older people to regain and maintain functioning and independence. This interdisciplinary book provides an introduction to the remarkable if haphazard international growth in reablement policies and practices in aged care over the past twenty years.
Incorporating theoretical and empirical research, it considers benefits for clients and care workers, cost-saving potentials and reablement provision also for persons with dementia. Finally, the book reflects on key findings, challenges and the way forward for long-term care for older people.
