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| Well-being of older persons in Central and Eastern European countries | | Author(s) | Radoslaw Antczak, Asghar Zaidi |
| Journal title | Research on Ageing and Social Policy, vol 6, no 1, Jan-June 2018 |
| Publisher | Hipatia Press, Jan-June 2018 |
| Pages | pp 26-52 |
| Source | http://www.hipatiapress.com/hpjournals/index.php/r... |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Well being ; Social policy ; Comparison ; European Union ; Eastern Europe. |
| Annotation | Central and Eastern Europe is a unique region in terms of its social, economic and demographic trends, particularly because of legacy of the communist system and transformation to a market system. The transition coincided with a rapid demographic change in which the younger generation was able to reorganise themselves relatively easily, whereas older people found this change much more difficult. This paper builds a picture of well-being in the older population of eight Eastern European countries (Albania, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine), which are compared to eight other European Union (EU) Member States in the same region. The authors used the Global AgeWatch Index, an analytical framework by A Zaidi (2013). which offers comparative analysis of older people's well-being across the world. It is extended by gender-specific analysis for two domains: health status and capability. The results show that the combined Index value of eight Eastern and South-Eastern non-EU countries is considerably below the average observed for eight EU member States. However, for some individual indicators, some of the non-EU states performed better than the EU countries. The evidence summarised can be used to assess the position of the region, and points to areas where policy changes are necessary. (OFFPRINT.) (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180417003 A |
| Classmark | BG: D:F:5HH: TM2: 48: WFC: 7A |
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