Research Handbook on Inequalities in Later Life

Edited by Catherine Earl, Senior Lecturer, School of Communication and Design, RMIT Vietnam and Philip Taylor, Professor, Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick, UK

‘The Research Handbook on Inequalities in Later Life represents a comprehensive overview of the range of experiences and challenges facing older people across the Global North and South. It provides a state-of-the art survey of theoretical and empirical research covering a wide variety of countries and topics. The Research Handbook represents a major editorial achievement and will be a key reference work for academics, policymakers and practitioners alike.’

• Contents1 Inequalities in later life: an introduction to key issues 1Catherine Earl and Philip TaylorPART I LIMITS OF SUCCESSFUL AGEING DISCOURSES2 Does gravity always win? Ageing experiences and models ofperfection from an art-based ethnography of body excellence 15Chiara Pussetti and Federica Manfredi3 Post-industrialism and inter-generational inequality indistribution of the ‘good death’ in older age 29Andrew Dawson4 The denial of disability experienced by older people 41Sandra South5 Precarious work at older age in China: the role of institutions 56Ge Yu, Philip Taylor and Xin DengPART II HOPE, RESILIENCE AND DISCRIMINATION IN LATER LIFE6 Indigenous populations, ageing and the legacies of colonisation 75Ellen Finlay and Tony Broe7 A multidimensional trajectory of older refugees’ resettlementand its policy implications 89Shaune-Ru Wang, Victoria Guinn and Lisa M. Brown8 Prisons and ageing: inequalities from the cradle to the grave 104Philip J. Gover and Soraya Camarena Villar9 Housing, ageing and inequity: can the 100-year life workwithout housing security for all? 120Phillippa Carnemolla and Vivienne SkinnerPART III DIVERSITY OF EXPERIENCES OF LATER LIFE10 Technological policy tools and implementation of socialprotection policies in Africa: emerging inequalities in socialsafety net programmes for older persons in Kenya 138Japheth Otieno Ondiek and Gedion Onyango11 The role of sexuality in older people’s lives: a multi-methodanalysis from Colombia 159Fernando Ruiz-Vallejo, Carolina Borda-Niño-Wildman, ÁngelaCifuentes-Avellaneda and Catalina Devia12 Socioeconomic inequalities in functional health among veryold adults in Germany 182Jonas Fey and Jaroslava Zimmermann13 The politics of older adult learning: social class, gender,ethnicity and age inequalities 196Marvin Formosa14 Ageing and inequalities in the ASEAN countries 209Philip Taylor and Catherine EarlPART IV CHALLENGES TO AUTONOMY IN LATER LIFE15 Caring for childless older people in the land of a thousandhills: empirical evidence from Rwanda 237Albert Irambeshya16 Toxic workplaces, older women and the ‘pandeconomy’ 248Myfan Jordan17 Doing biography: (re)constructing the intersection of genderand age(ing) through narrations and experiences of older people 266Ines Hiegemann18 Who chooses to switch patterns of employment after retirement age? 280Hila Axelrad and Aviad Tur-SinaiPART V AN AGENDA FOR FUTURE RESEARCH19 Future agendas in researching inequalities in later life 298Catherine Earl and Philip TaylorIndex 309