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Ageing in a consumer society
— from passive to active consumption in Britain | | Author(s) | Ian Rees Jones, Martin Hyde, Christina R Victor |
| Publisher | The Policy Press, Bristol, 2008 |
| Pages | 148 pp (Ageing and the lifecourse series) |
| Source | Marston Book Services, PO Box 269, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4YN. Email: direct.orders@marston.co.uk Website: http://www.policypress.org.uk |
| Keywords | Consumer ; Expenditure [elderly] ; Health services ; Services ; Social change ; Social policy ; Longitudinal surveys. |
| Annotation | People retiring now participated in the creation of the post-war consumer culture; and while these "grey consumers" have grown older, they have not stopped consuming. This book is based on findings from a Cultures of Consumption project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) (RES-154-25-007). It uses secondary analysis of the Family Expenditure Survey (FES) to follow older people's engagement with Britain's consumer society since the 1960s, a period of much social change. The book considers the evolution of the "third age" and terms such as "baby boomers"; the changing nature of the household, along with income, expenditure and inequalities in later life; and the consumption of health and health products. It charts changes in the experience of later life in the UK, the rise of the "individualised consumer citizen", and what this means for health and social policy. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-081007004 B |
| Classmark | WY: J3: L: I: TMH: TM2: 3J |
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