This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of
individual and population ageing. Placing economic considerations into a wider social sciences
context this is ideal reading not only for advanced undergraduate and masters students in
economics health economics and the economics of ageing but also policy makers students
professionals and practitioners in gerontology sociology health-related sciences and social
care. This volume introduces the different conceptualisations of age and definitions of `old
age' as well as the main theories of individual ageing as developed in the disciplines of
biology psychology and sociology. It covers the economic theories of fertility mortality and
migration and describes the four main frameworks that can be used to study economics and ageing
namely the life cycle the overlapping generations the perpetual youth and the dynastic
models.
