Description: This important book brings together some of the best known international scholars working within a critical gerontology perspective to review and update our understanding of how the field has developed over and provide a challenging assessment of the complex practical and ethical issues facing older people, and those who conduct research on ageing.
Brief description: Miriam Bernard is Professor of Social Gerontology and Director of the Research Institute for Life Course Studies at Keele University. Thomas Scharf is Professor of Social Gerontology and Director of the Centre for Social Gerontology at Keele University.
Review Quotes: "Ties together so many of the germane problems of our time, particularly the long-term consequences of living under successive neoliberal regimes that have intensified the insecurities, inequalities and vulnerabilities of growing older." Canadian Journal on Aging