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Work, aging, and risks to family life
— the case of Australia | | Author(s) | Simon Biggs, Ashley Carr, Irja Haapala |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 34, no 3, September 2015 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, September 2015 |
| Pages | pp 321-330 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/cjg |
| Keywords | The Family ; Employment ; Employment of older people ; Social policy ; Social trends ; Australia ; International. |
| Annotation | The relationship between work and family is considered, with an emphasis on policy solutions, and using Australian policy as a case example in the context of international trends. A mismatch between policy initiatives and familial and personal priorities constitutes a new social risk associated with demographic and sociocultural development. Contemporary trends, both nationally and internationally, evidence solutions to the "problem of demographic ageing", by adopting a form of economic instrumentalism. This restricts legitimate age identities to those associated with work and work-related activity. When applied to family life, such a focus runs the risk of reducing policy interest in intergenerational engagement to unpaid care roles, while personal development and age-related life priorities are ignored. The need for cultural adaptation to population ageing is becoming accepted in policy debate, and is considered here as an effective response to the personal, social, and economic risks of population ageing and associated effects on family life. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150918218 A |
| Classmark | SJ: WJ: GC: TM2: TM3: 7YA: 72 |
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