Dale Dannefer is the Selah Chamberlain Professor of Sociology and Chair Department of Sociology at Case Western University in Ohio.  Chris Phillipson is Professor of Applied Social Studies and Social Gerontology at Keele University.

• PART ONE: FUNDAMENTAL AND DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON AGEING The Study of the Life Course: Implications for Social Gerontology - Dale Dannefer and Richard A. Settersten, Jr.Past as Prologue: Toward a Global History of Ageing - W. Andrew AchenbaumThe Economics of Ageing - James H. SchulzSocial Anthropology and Ageing - Christine L. FryThe Demography of Ageing - Christina VictorEpidemiology of Ageing - Dawn Alley and Eileen CrimminsDisability and Ageing: The Social Construction of Causality - Jessica Kelley-MooreEnvironmental Perspectives on Ageing - Hans-Werner Wahl and Frank OswaldPART TWO: AGEING AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE Age and Inequality in Global Context - Angela M. O′Rand, Katelin Isaacs, and Leslie RothGender and Ageing in the Context of Globalization - Toni CalasantiAgeing and Health among Hispanics/Latinos in the Americas - Kyriakos Markides, Jennifer Salinas, and Rebecca WongReligion and Age - Peter G. ColemanIntergenerational Relationships of International Migrants in Developed Nations: The United States and France - Merril Silverstein and Claudine Attias-DonfutFamily and Age in a Global Perspective - Ariela Lowenstein and Ruth KatzIntergenerational Relations: Asian Perspectives - Leng Leng ThangSocietal Dynamics in Personal Networks - Theo van Tilburg and Fleur ThoméseLesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Ageing: Shattering Myths, Capturing Lives - Dana RosenfeldFriendship and Ageing - Graham AllanPART THREE: AGEING AND INDIVIDUAL CHANGEAge, Self and Identity in the Global Century - Jon HendricksSocial Structure, Cognition and Ageing - Duane F. AlwinStress and Agentic Ageing: A Targeted Adaptation Model Focused on Cancer - Eva Kahana and Boaz KahanaAgency and Social Structure in Ageing and Life Course Research - Victor W. Marshall and Philippa J. ClarkeAge, Experience and the Beginning of Wisdom - Monika ArdeltLoneliness and Ageing: Comparative Perspectives - Marja Jylhä and Marja SaarenheimoBiosocial Interactions in the Construction of Late-life Health Status - Kathryn Z. Douthit and Andre MarquisDementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment in Social and Cultural Context - Danny George and Peter WhitehouseSocio-cultural Perspectives on Ageing Bodies - Stephen KatzTime and Ageing: Enduring and Emerging Issues - Jan BaarsPART FOUR: AGEING, CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENTAgeing and International Development - Peter Lloyd-SherlockMigration and Age - Tony WarnesGlobal Ageing: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa - Isabella AboderinPopulation Ageing and Old-age Insurance in China - Zeng Yi and Linda K. GeorgeAgeing in a Global Context: the Asia-Pacific Region - David R Phillips, Alfred C.M. Chan, and Sheung-Tak ChengThe Significance of Grandparents to Grandchildren: An International Perspective - Peter Uhlenberg and Michelle CheukA Social View on Healthy Ageing: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives and Australian Evidence - H. Kendig and C. BrowningSocial Dimensions of Anti-ageing Science and Medicine - Robert H. Binstock and Jennifer R. FishmanThe New Ageing Enterprise - Harry R. MoodyPART FIVE: AGEING AND SOCIAL POLICY Social Policies for Ageing Societies: Perspectives from Europe - Thomas ScharfGlobalization, Social Policy and Ageing: A North American Perspective - Carroll L. Estes and Steven P. WallaceSocial Policies for Ageing Societies: Australasian Perspectives - Michael Fine and Sally KeelingCross-National Trends in Work and Retirement - Philip TaylorContinuous and Long-term Care: European Perspectives - Caroline GlendinningLong-term Care in China and Japan - Yun Zhou and Yuzhi LiuAgeing and Quality of Life in Europe - Alan WalkerLater Life and Imprisonment - Azrini Wahidin and Ronald H. AdayAgeing and Urban Society: Growing Old in the ′Century of the City′ - Chris PhillipsonTechnology and Older People - Claudine McCreadieEnd-of-Life Issues - Liz LloydEthics and Old Age: The Second Generation - Martha HolsteinThe Politics of Ageing - Susan A. MacManus with the assistance of Andrea L. Polk and David J. Bonanza

This SAGE Handbook integrates basic research on social dimensions of aging. It presents programmatic applications of research in areas not often seen in Handbooks including imprisonment, technology and aging, urban society aged, and elderly migration. The authors constitute a Who′s Who of international gerontology, and the focus on globalization and aging is unique among Handbooks today. This Handbook should be in the library of every social gerontologist.

Dale Dannefer is the Selah Chamberlain Professor of Sociology and Chair Department of Sociology at Case Western University in Ohio.  Chris Phillipson is Professor of Applied Social Studies and Social Gerontology at Keele University.

• PART ONE: FUNDAMENTAL AND DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON AGEING The Study of the Life Course: Implications for Social Gerontology - Dale Dannefer and Richard A. Settersten, Jr.Past as Prologue: Toward a Global History of Ageing - W. Andrew AchenbaumThe Economics of Ageing - James H. SchulzSocial Anthropology and Ageing - Christine L. FryThe Demography of Ageing - Christina VictorEpidemiology of Ageing - Dawn Alley and Eileen CrimminsDisability and Ageing: The Social Construction of Causality - Jessica Kelley-MooreEnvironmental Perspectives on Ageing - Hans-Werner Wahl and Frank OswaldPART TWO: AGEING AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE Age and Inequality in Global Context - Angela M. O′Rand, Katelin Isaacs, and Leslie RothGender and Ageing in the Context of Globalization - Toni CalasantiAgeing and Health among Hispanics/Latinos in the Americas - Kyriakos Markides, Jennifer Salinas, and Rebecca WongReligion and Age - Peter G. ColemanIntergenerational Relationships of International Migrants in Developed Nations: The United States and France - Merril Silverstein and Claudine Attias-DonfutFamily and Age in a Global Perspective - Ariela Lowenstein and Ruth KatzIntergenerational Relations: Asian Perspectives - Leng Leng ThangSocietal Dynamics in Personal Networks - Theo van Tilburg and Fleur ThoméseLesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Ageing: Shattering Myths, Capturing Lives - Dana RosenfeldFriendship and Ageing - Graham AllanPART THREE: AGEING AND INDIVIDUAL CHANGEAge, Self and Identity in the Global Century - Jon HendricksSocial Structure, Cognition and Ageing - Duane F. AlwinStress and Agentic Ageing: A Targeted Adaptation Model Focused on Cancer - Eva Kahana and Boaz KahanaAgency and Social Structure in Ageing and Life Course Research - Victor W. Marshall and Philippa J. ClarkeAge, Experience and the Beginning of Wisdom - Monika ArdeltLoneliness and Ageing: Comparative Perspectives - Marja Jylhä and Marja SaarenheimoBiosocial Interactions in the Construction of Late-life Health Status - Kathryn Z. Douthit and Andre MarquisDementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment in Social and Cultural Context - Danny George and Peter WhitehouseSocio-cultural Perspectives on Ageing Bodies - Stephen KatzTime and Ageing: Enduring and Emerging Issues - Jan BaarsPART FOUR: AGEING, CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENTAgeing and International Development - Peter Lloyd-SherlockMigration and Age - Tony WarnesGlobal Ageing: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa - Isabella AboderinPopulation Ageing and Old-age Insurance in China - Zeng Yi and Linda K. GeorgeAgeing in a Global Context: the Asia-Pacific Region - David R Phillips, Alfred C.M. Chan, and Sheung-Tak ChengThe Significance of Grandparents to Grandchildren: An International Perspective - Peter Uhlenberg and Michelle CheukA Social View on Healthy Ageing: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives and Australian Evidence - H. Kendig and C. BrowningSocial Dimensions of Anti-ageing Science and Medicine - Robert H. Binstock and Jennifer R. FishmanThe New Ageing Enterprise - Harry R. MoodyPART FIVE: AGEING AND SOCIAL POLICY Social Policies for Ageing Societies: Perspectives from Europe - Thomas ScharfGlobalization, Social Policy and Ageing: A North American Perspective - Carroll L. Estes and Steven P. WallaceSocial Policies for Ageing Societies: Australasian Perspectives - Michael Fine and Sally KeelingCross-National Trends in Work and Retirement - Philip TaylorContinuous and Long-term Care: European Perspectives - Caroline GlendinningLong-term Care in China and Japan - Yun Zhou and Yuzhi LiuAgeing and Quality of Life in Europe - Alan WalkerLater Life and Imprisonment - Azrini Wahidin and Ronald H. AdayAgeing and Urban Society: Growing Old in the ′Century of the City′ - Chris PhillipsonTechnology and Older People - Claudine McCreadieEnd-of-Life Issues - Liz LloydEthics and Old Age: The Second Generation - Martha HolsteinThe Politics of Ageing - Susan A. MacManus with the assistance of Andrea L. Polk and David J. Bonanza

This SAGE Handbook integrates basic research on social dimensions of aging. It presents programmatic applications of research in areas not often seen in Handbooks including imprisonment, technology and aging, urban society aged, and elderly migration. The authors constitute a Who′s Who of international gerontology, and the focus on globalization and aging is unique among Handbooks today. This Handbook should be in the library of every social gerontologist.

Dale Dannefer is the Selah Chamberlain Professor of Sociology and Chair Department of Sociology at Case Western University in Ohio.  Chris Phillipson is Professor of Applied Social Studies and Social Gerontology at Keele University.

• PART ONE: FUNDAMENTAL AND DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON AGEING The Study of the Life Course: Implications for Social Gerontology - Dale Dannefer and Richard A. Settersten, Jr.Past as Prologue: Toward a Global History of Ageing - W. Andrew AchenbaumThe Economics of Ageing - James H. SchulzSocial Anthropology and Ageing - Christine L. FryThe Demography of Ageing - Christina VictorEpidemiology of Ageing - Dawn Alley and Eileen CrimminsDisability and Ageing: The Social Construction of Causality - Jessica Kelley-MooreEnvironmental Perspectives on Ageing - Hans-Werner Wahl and Frank OswaldPART TWO: AGEING AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE Age and Inequality in Global Context - Angela M. O′Rand, Katelin Isaacs, and Leslie RothGender and Ageing in the Context of Globalization - Toni CalasantiAgeing and Health among Hispanics/Latinos in the Americas - Kyriakos Markides, Jennifer Salinas, and Rebecca WongReligion and Age - Peter G. ColemanIntergenerational Relationships of International Migrants in Developed Nations: The United States and France - Merril Silverstein and Claudine Attias-DonfutFamily and Age in a Global Perspective - Ariela Lowenstein and Ruth KatzIntergenerational Relations: Asian Perspectives - Leng Leng ThangSocietal Dynamics in Personal Networks - Theo van Tilburg and Fleur ThoméseLesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Ageing: Shattering Myths, Capturing Lives - Dana RosenfeldFriendship and Ageing - Graham AllanPART THREE: AGEING AND INDIVIDUAL CHANGEAge, Self and Identity in the Global Century - Jon HendricksSocial Structure, Cognition and Ageing - Duane F. AlwinStress and Agentic Ageing: A Targeted Adaptation Model Focused on Cancer - Eva Kahana and Boaz KahanaAgency and Social Structure in Ageing and Life Course Research - Victor W. Marshall and Philippa J. ClarkeAge, Experience and the Beginning of Wisdom - Monika ArdeltLoneliness and Ageing: Comparative Perspectives - Marja Jylhä and Marja SaarenheimoBiosocial Interactions in the Construction of Late-life Health Status - Kathryn Z. Douthit and Andre MarquisDementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment in Social and Cultural Context - Danny George and Peter WhitehouseSocio-cultural Perspectives on Ageing Bodies - Stephen KatzTime and Ageing: Enduring and Emerging Issues - Jan BaarsPART FOUR: AGEING, CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENTAgeing and International Development - Peter Lloyd-SherlockMigration and Age - Tony WarnesGlobal Ageing: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa - Isabella AboderinPopulation Ageing and Old-age Insurance in China - Zeng Yi and Linda K. GeorgeAgeing in a Global Context: the Asia-Pacific Region - David R Phillips, Alfred C.M. Chan, and Sheung-Tak ChengThe Significance of Grandparents to Grandchildren: An International Perspective - Peter Uhlenberg and Michelle CheukA Social View on Healthy Ageing: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives and Australian Evidence - H. Kendig and C. BrowningSocial Dimensions of Anti-ageing Science and Medicine - Robert H. Binstock and Jennifer R. FishmanThe New Ageing Enterprise - Harry R. MoodyPART FIVE: AGEING AND SOCIAL POLICY Social Policies for Ageing Societies: Perspectives from Europe - Thomas ScharfGlobalization, Social Policy and Ageing: A North American Perspective - Carroll L. Estes and Steven P. WallaceSocial Policies for Ageing Societies: Australasian Perspectives - Michael Fine and Sally KeelingCross-National Trends in Work and Retirement - Philip TaylorContinuous and Long-term Care: European Perspectives - Caroline GlendinningLong-term Care in China and Japan - Yun Zhou and Yuzhi LiuAgeing and Quality of Life in Europe - Alan WalkerLater Life and Imprisonment - Azrini Wahidin and Ronald H. AdayAgeing and Urban Society: Growing Old in the ′Century of the City′ - Chris PhillipsonTechnology and Older People - Claudine McCreadieEnd-of-Life Issues - Liz LloydEthics and Old Age: The Second Generation - Martha HolsteinThe Politics of Ageing - Susan A. MacManus with the assistance of Andrea L. Polk and David J. Bonanza

This SAGE Handbook integrates basic research on social dimensions of aging. It presents programmatic applications of research in areas not often seen in Handbooks including imprisonment, technology and aging, urban society aged, and elderly migration. The authors constitute a Who′s Who of international gerontology, and the focus on globalization and aging is unique among Handbooks today. This Handbook should be in the library of every social gerontologist.