This volume and its companion, The new dynamics of ageing volume 2, provide comprehensive multi-disciplinary overviews of the very latest research on ageing. It reports the outcomes of the most concerted investigation ever undertaken into both the influence shaping the changing nature of ageing and its consequences for individuals and society.


This book concentrates on three major themes: active ageing, design for ageing well and the relationship between ageing and socio-economic development. Each chapter provides a state of the art topic summary as well as reporting the essential research findings from New Dynamics of Ageing research projects. There is a strong emphasis on the practical implications of ageing and how evidence-based policies, practices and new products can produce individual and societal benefits.

Contributions by: Joao Saboia, Constantinos Maganaris, Clare Lawton, Eleanor van den Heuvel, Catherine Hagan Hennessy, Amanda Crummett, Jane Elliott, Adelina Comas-Herrera, Michael Murphy, Penny Vera-Sanso, Julia Mase, Peter Lloyd-Sherlock, Valerie Moller, Armando Barrientos, Leonie Kellaher, Russ Marshall, Colette Nicolle, Martin Maguire, John Percival, Sheila Peace, Jane McCann, Jatinder Sandhu, Wendy Olphert, Leela Damodaran, Robin Means, Michael Murray, Andrea Creech, Susan Hallam, Ann Bowling, Rachel Cooper, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Catharine Gale, Rebecca Hardy, Diana Kuh, Cheryl Haslam, Bo Hu, Raphael Wittenberg, Ruth Hancock