Mark Schweda is Research Fellow at the Department for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, University Medical Center Göttingen. Larissa Pfaller is Research Associate at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and currently Deputy Professor at the University of Hamburg.Kai Brauer is a sociologist and teaches empirical methods and sociology of aging at Carinthia University of Applied Sciences (CUAS). Frank Adloff is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hamburg.Silke Schicktanz is a bioethicist and Professor for Cultural and Ethical Studies of Biomedicine at the Department for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, University Medical Center Göttingen.

• List of Figures and Tables Notes on ContributorsIntroductionMark Schweda, Larissa Pfaller, and Silke SchicktanzPart 1: Conceptions of Aging and Old Age1. "A Season to Everything"? Considering Life-Course Perspectives in Bioethical and Public-Health Discussions on Aging Mark Schweda2. Becoming Oneself: Toward a New Philosophy of AgeingThomas Rentsch3. Third Age and Fourth Age in Aging Societies – Divergent Social and Ethical DiscoursesFrançois Höpflinger4. The Nature of the Fourth Age as a Challenge to Aging SocietiesPaul Higgs and Chris GilleardPart 2: Perspectives and Problems of Old Age in the Context of Medicine and Healthcare 5. Old Age, Potentials, and VulnerabilityAndreas Kruse6. Competence and Cognitive Deterioration: Are We Paying Enough Attention to Ethical Issues?Perla Werner and Silke Schicktanz7. Opt In or Opt Out? Rethinking the Provision of Life-Sustaining Medical Technology to the 'Old Old'Hsiu-I Yang 8. Not Growing Old – GracefullySøren Holm9. How to Think About Age-Group Justice: The Capabilities ApproachNancy S. JeckerPart 3: Individual Provisions and Public Policies in Aging Societies10. Final Decisions for the Final Crisis: Hopes and Hypes Regarding the Advance Directive in GermanyKai Brauer11. Preparing Existential Decisions in Later Life: Advance Healthcare PlanningRalf J. Jox12. Articulating the Case for the Longevity DividendS. Jay Olshansky13. Paradoxes of Planning Later Life: Anti-Aging Practices and the Lived BodyLarissa Pfaller and Frank Adloff14. The Visionary Shaping of Dementia Research: Imaginations and Scenarios in Biopolitical Narratives and Ethical ReflectionsSilke Schicktanz15. Solidarity and Family Care for an Aging PopulationRuud ter Meulen16. Legacies, Generations, and Aging Futures: The Ethics of IntergenerativityStephen Katz and Peter J. WhitehouseIndex

“Planning Later Life provides an accessible and well-written volume for interdisci-plinary scholars and non-scientific readers. It acquires a reasonable balance between a width of perspectives and depths of discussing the implications of an increasing life expectancy."Martin Sand, Monash Bioethics Review.