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Baby boomers and adult ageing — issues for social and public policy
Author(s)	Simon Biggs, Chris Phillipson, Rebecca Leach
Journal title	Quality in Ageing, vol 8, no 3, September 2007
Pages	pp 32-40
Source	http://www.pavpub.com
Keywords	Ageing process ; Employment of older people ; Consumer ; Retirement ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Social policy.
Annotation	This paper provides a critical assessment of academic and policy approaches to population ageing, with an emphasis on the baby boomer cohort and constructions of late-life identity. It is suggested that policy towards an ageing population has shifted in focus away from particular social hazards and toward an attempt to re-engineer the meaning of legitimate ageing and social participation in later life. Three themes are identified: constructing the baby boomers as a force for social change; a downward drift of the age associated with 'older people'; and a shift away from defining ageing identities through consumption back towards work and production. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications for future social and public policy. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-071001004 A
Classmark	BG: GC: WY: G3: TOB: TM2
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