This open access book provides insight on how to interpret capability in ageing – one's individual ability to perform actions in order to reach goals one has reason to value – from a multidisciplinary approach. With for the first time in history there being more people in the world aged 60 years and over than there are children below the age of 5, the book describes this demographic trends as well as the large global challenges and important societal implications this will have such as a worldwide increase in the number of persons affected with dementia, and in the ratio of retired persons to those still in the labor market. Through contributions from many different research areas, it discussed how capability depends on interactions between the individual (e.g. health, genetics, personality, intellectual capacity), environment (e.g. family, friends, home, work place), and society (e.g. political decisions, ageism, historical period).The final chapter summarizes the differencesand similarities in these contributions.As such this book provides an interesting read for students, teachers and researchers at different levels and from different fields interested in capability and multidisciplinary research.
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A Multidisciplinary Approach to Capability in Age and Ageing
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The AgeCap Conceptual Framework for Research on Capability in Ageing
- 3. The ICECAP-O Measure
- 4. The Capability Approach in Epidemiological Studies
- 5. Good Self-Rated Health as an Indicator of Personal Capability in Old Age
- 6. Capability in Research on Cognition and Well-being in Ageing and Retirement
- 7. The Neurochemistry of Alzheimer’s Disease: One of the Most Common Causes of Reduced Capability in the Adult Population
- 8. The Capability Approach in Research on Ageing Well at Home for Frail Older People
- 9. eHealth Literacy and Capability in the Context of the Pandemic Crisis
- 10. Increasing People’s Capabilities by Using Design Thinking in the Decision-Making Process
- 11. The Capability Approach in Social Work with Older People
- 12. A Historical Perspective on Ageing and Capability
- 13. The Capabilities Approach and the Concepts of Self-Determination, Legal Competence and Human Dignity in Social Services for Older People
- 14. Invisible or Powerful? Ageing in a Mediatised Society
- 15. System and Life-Course Perspectives on Capability to Work and Capability Through Work
- 16. Organisational Capability for Delayed Retirement
- 17. Capability and Political Participation Among Ageing Populations
- Back Matter
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