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Sociology of Aging and DeathRisk and Aging

Sociology of Aging and Death: Risk and Aging [This chapter explores the complex relationship between aging, risk, and welfare in contemporary British society. I do this by interrogating the space between what has been coined the “risk society” and the policy implications both for older people in relation to the extension of their working lives to ready themselves for deep old age (Powell, 2014). At one level, the UK social policy of extending working life has been a significant outcome of the debate concerning the economic sustainability of aging populations (Vickerstaff, 2010). Yet at another level, the lowest state pension in the western world has impacted the quality of life of older people to the extent to which low resources have led to lower life expectancy and choices over “eat or heat” in terms of managing those resources which can have fatal consequences in terms of death. The UK government’s response to this has been the need to keep Britain’s aging population economically active and has prompted government policies aimed at extending working lives in order to minimize and mitigate against risks associated with a low public pension that has consequences in terms of the relationship between poverty and life expectancy.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Sociology of Aging and DeathRisk and Aging

Part of the International Perspectives on Aging Book Series (volume 35)
Powell, Jason
Sociology of Aging and Death — Nov 26, 2022
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
ISBN
978-3-031-19328-6
Pages
31 –41
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-19329-3_3
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[This chapter explores the complex relationship between aging, risk, and welfare in contemporary British society. I do this by interrogating the space between what has been coined the “risk society” and the policy implications both for older people in relation to the extension of their working lives to ready themselves for deep old age (Powell, 2014). At one level, the UK social policy of extending working life has been a significant outcome of the debate concerning the economic sustainability of aging populations (Vickerstaff, 2010). Yet at another level, the lowest state pension in the western world has impacted the quality of life of older people to the extent to which low resources have led to lower life expectancy and choices over “eat or heat” in terms of managing those resources which can have fatal consequences in terms of death. The UK government’s response to this has been the need to keep Britain’s aging population economically active and has prompted government policies aimed at extending working lives in order to minimize and mitigate against risks associated with a low public pension that has consequences in terms of the relationship between poverty and life expectancy.]

Published: Nov 26, 2022

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