Asghar Zaidi is Director of Research at the European Centre for Social Welfare, Policy and Research, Vienna, Austria.

• Contents: Part I Setting the Context: Introduction; Conceptualising well-being of older people; Methodological choices in measuring well-being; The British pension and social benefit system. Part II Empirical Findings: Coupling of disadvantages: an assessment of income deprivation and limiting health in old age; Income mobility in old age; Snakes and ladders; covariates of income mobility in old age; Income mobility of the elderly in Great Britain and The Netherlands: a comparative investigation. Part III Conclusions: Synthesizing discussion and conlusions; Bibliography; Index

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