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• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of boxes
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 The ageing world
• 2 The biology of ageing
• 3 Psychological ageing
• 4 Social theory and social ageing
• 5 Researching ageing
• 6 Health and dependency in later life
• 7 Social protection: incomes, poverty and the reform of pension systems
• 8 Work and retirement
• 9 Personal relationships in later life
• 10 Environment and ageing
• 11 Meanings of ageing and old age: discursive contexts, social attitudes and personal identities
• 12 Competence and cognition
• 13 Self and life management: wholesome knowledge for the third age
• 14 Ageing into the future
• References
• Index