1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910808284003321

Titolo

Aging and demographic change in Canadian context / / edited by David Cheal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002

©2002

ISBN

1-281-99613-0

9786611996130

1-4426-7073-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

Policy Research: The Trends Project Series

Disciplina

305.26/0971

Soggetti

Aging - Social aspects - Canada

Age distribution (Demography) - Canada

Vieillissement - Aspect social - Canada

Répartition par âge (Démographie) - Canada

Electronic books.

Canada Population policy

Canada Social conditions 1991-

Canada Population

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Contextualizing Demographic Concerns -- 2 Intergenerational Interlinkages: Public, Family, and Work -- 3 Aging, Language, and Culture -- 4 The Impact of Demographic and Social Trends on Informal Support for Older Persons -- 5 Aging and Productivity: What Do We Know? -- 6 Work and Leisure: A Question of Balance -- 7 Catching Up with Diversity in Intergenerational Relationships -- Appendix: Iowa City Declaration -- Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

The Canadian population is aging. As the "Baby-Boomer" generation reaches retirement age, policy-makers have begun to fear the economic and demographic challenges ahead. Aging and Demographic



Change in Canadian Context responds to this alarmist view. The contributors present several alternative perspectives and question whether an aging society is necessarily inferior or problematic compared with the recent past, cautioning that exaggerated concerns about population aging can be harmful to rational policy making. The contributors argue that it is important to develop forward-looking programs that may influence life course trajectories in favourable directions, and that these new policies should be developed with respect to the life course considered as a whole. "Old age" is a slippery concept, and the effective boundaries between it and "middle age" are not always clear. The essays in Aging and Demographic Change in Canadian Context address these challenges and seek to broaden public discussion on aging and Canadian public policy