Demographic Change: Societal Changes in an Ageing Europe

Societal Discrimination against Muslims in Europe: Racism and Political Opportunism

Population Ageing in Central and Eastern Europe: Societal and Policy Implications

Population ageing is one of the most significant demographic processes, with long-term consequences which are already beginning to affect many countries around the world, most noticeably in Europe. There are several definitions of population ageing. One of them refers to an increased percentage of people older than 60 or 65 in the total population. Underlying this simple definition are a large ...

Meeting the demographic challenges ahead: Toward culture change in an ageing New Zealand

There are several innovative service delivery models in the United States (US) relevant to long-term care policy development and implementation in New Zealand. An especially fruitful source of innovation has been the culture change movement, which originated in the US but has begun to spread to New Zealand and other OECD countries. The culture change philosophy requires that providers respond t...

Regarding Societal Change

In this paper we introduce our special thematic section on societal change. We begin by providing an overview of the aims of the section, and how these aims grew out of a need to address conceptual and empirical challenges in the study of societal change. In response to these challenges, the section was intended to provide a forum for theoretical and empirical work from a range of disciplinary ...

Telecare Technology for an Ageing Society in Europe

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