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Ageing in an aged society
— experiences and attitudes of Catholic order members towards population ageing and older people | | Author(s) | Marc Luy, Priska Flandorfer, Paola di Giulio |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 35, no 1, January 2015 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, January 2015 |
| Pages | pp 1-36 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Roman Catholicism ; Ministers of religion ; Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Attitude ; Ageing process ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Germany. |
| Annotation | Population ageing occurs in all industrialised societies and is the demographic phenomenon that currently gets the highest attention from scientists, policy makers and the general public. This paper aims to broaden our understanding of the societal consequences of ageing, such as ageism and intergenerational solidarity. The study is based on the investigation in seven European countries, 'Attitudes towards population ageing and older people', by Ronald C Schoenmaeckers et al (European Studies of Population, vol. 16, no. 2, 2008). The authors replicate their analysis in a specific human subpopulation in which the process of population ageing started earlier and is much more advanced than in the general societies: the members of Catholic orders. The study compares the attitudes of 148 nuns and monks from three Bavarian monasteries to those of the western German general population. The authors use descriptive and multivariate analyses in the context of the debate around population ageing in Germany. The study discusses the specific characteristics of order members that might influence their attitudes; and it also take a brief look at their views on possible political strategies to solve the problems connected with the demographic changes. The results confirm the findings of Schoenmaeckers et al, and reveal that worldly and monastic populations show an identical basic pattern of a positive attitude towards older people, while at the same time considering population ageing a worrisome development. However, order members evaluate older people's abilities and their role in society more positively. This result gives rise to the optimistic perspective that in an aged population the younger and older generations can build a well-functioning society. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150619001 A |
| Classmark | TSA: XR: EX: F: DP: BG: TOB: 767 |
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