1: The Age Narrative2: How Did We Get Here?3: The Grey Burden4: Youth: Peril or Dividend?5: Too Many Children?6: Our Future SelvesAfterwordAppendicesNotes and ReferencesBibliography
Sarah Harper is Professor of Gerontology at Oxford University, Director of the Oxford Institute of Ageing, a multi-disciplinary research unit concerned with the implications of population ageing, and Director of the Clore Programme on Population-Environment Change. Her research concerns globalization and global ageing, and the impact of population change, in particular the implications at the global, societal and individual level of the age-structural shift from predominantly young to predominantly older societies. She has authored, edited and contributed to several books, including Families in Ageing Societies (Editor, OUP, 2004), Ageing Societies: Myths, Challenges, and Opportunities(Hodder Arnold, 2005) and Demography: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2018). She is also the editor of the Journal of Population Ageing (Springer).
"A reliable and intelligent guide" - Robert Mayhew, Literary Review"Sarah Harper provides a fascinating graphically illustrated and well researched summary of current demographic trends" - Jonathan Cowie, Concatenation
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