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| The policy challenges of population ageing | | Author(s) | Kenneth Howse |
| Corporate Author | Leveson Centre for the Study of Ageing, Spirituality and Social Policy, Foundation of Lady Katherine Leveson |
| Publisher | The Leveson Centre, Knowle, Solihull, 2003 |
| Pages | 69 pp (Leveson paper number five) |
| Source | The Leveson Centre for the Study of Ageing, Spirituality and Social Policy, Foundation of Lady Katherine Leveson, Temple Balsall, Knowle, Solihull B93 0AL. |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Social policy ; Research Reviews. |
| Annotation | There is a division between those who believe that the costs of supporting increasing numbers of older people threaten to become impossibly burdensome, and those who believe that this threat has been greatly exaggerated. This paper surveys the current state of debate with respect to a shortlist of policy challenges and their interpretation by commentators in the opposing camps. It summarises some of the issues that arise in attempting to explain how and why population ageing is a threat to general prosperity. Pensions and long-term care - where the clash of views about the policy implications of ageing is most marked - are looked at in detail. The last chapter concerns general, abstract features in the debate: intergenerational fairness and intergenerational solidarity; exclusion, participation and citizenship; and healthy ageing. Thus, an overview is offered of two alternative and competing policy agendas on the medium- to long-term implications of demographic change. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-031212001 B |
| Classmark | BG: TM2: 3A:6KC |
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