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Living Longer: Ageing, Development and Social Protection
Peter Lloyd-Sherlock (Editor), United Nations Research Institute for Social Development and Zed Books, November 2004, 308pp., ISBN 1 84277 357 7, £19.95
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Living Longer provides the reader with an overview of current developments in social policy for older people in a fast-changing world. As its United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) status suggests, this text brings together the complexities and subtleties of changing welfare state systems worldwide. It has been published as a culmination of UNRISD funded international research, initially disseminated at a conference in Madrid in 2002. This book has appeal for community activists, policy-makers, practitioners and academics who wish to understand more fully the state of development and social policy affecting older people in a diverse range of countries, each of which is influenced by global change.
Contributions come from authors who are clearly knowledgeable about their own country's historical and political context and who are thus able to demonstrate the impact
Research Fellow at Institute of Applied Social Studies, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, B15 2TT, UK; email: P.M.Brannelly@bham.ac.uk