Ageing Through Austerity: Critical Perspectives From Ireland

Demographic ageing is identified as a global challenge with significant social policy implications. This book explores these implications, with a particular focus on the pressures and prospects for ageing societies in the context of austerity. The book presents a carefully crafted study of ageing in Ireland, one of the countries hardest hit by the Eurozone financial crisis. Providing a close, critical analysis of ageing and social policy that draws directly on the perspectives of older people, the text makes significant advances in framing alternatives to austerity-driven government policy and neoliberalism, giving a refreshing interdisciplinary account of contemporary ageing.

• • Author: Kieran Walsh, Gemma M. Carney, Aine Ni Leime
• • Publisher: Policy Press
• • Publication Date: May 01, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 208 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1447316231
• • ISBN-13: 9781447316237