EAN: 9783030780654

A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO CAPABILITY IN A...

This open access book provides insight on how to interpret capability in ageing - one's
individual ability to perform actions in order to reach goals one has reason to value - from a
multidisciplinary approach. With for the first time in history there being more people in the
world aged 60 years and over than there are children below the age of 5  the book describes
this demographic trends as well as the large global challenges and important societal
implications this will have such as a worldwide increase in the number of persons affected with
dementia  and in the ratio of retired persons to those still in the labor market. Through
contributions from many different research areas  it discussed how capability depends on
interactions between the individual (e.g. health  genetics  personality  intellectual capacity)
environment (e.g. family  friends  home  work place)  and society (e.g. political decisions 
ageism  historical period). The final chapter summarizes the differences and similarities in
these contributions. As such this book provides an interesting read for students  teachers and
researchers at different levels and from different fields interested in capability and
multidisciplinary research.

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