Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives in Social Gerontology
This volume intends to re-establish social gerontology as a discipline that has pragmatic links to policy and practice. Collectively, the chapters enrich public debates about the moral, cultural and economic questions surrounding aging, thereby ameliorati
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Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives in Social Gerontology
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives in Social Gerontology
Tannistha Samanta Editor
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives in Social Gerontology
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Editor Tannistha Samanta Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat India
ISBN 978-981-10-1653-0 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-1654-7
ISBN 978-981-10-1654-7
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Foreword
In the last decade or so, the development in collecting large-scale, longitudinal aging datasets around the globe has been nothing short of spectacular. For example, we have witnessed the ongoing growth of the sibling studies of Health and Retirement Study (HRS, US) in multiple continents, now including the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), the Chinese Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey (CHARLS), and the Mexican Health and Aging Survey (MHAS). At the same time, the World Health Organization (WHO) study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE) is expanding to African countries such as Ghana and South Africa—relative newcomers to the global aging process. Such an impressive growth in data availability certainly provides unprecedented opportunities to gerontological researchers. However, it is important to keep in mind that the expansion of such data does not automatically lead to a growth in knowledge. Instead, the way in which data are utilized and interpreted are crucial to scholarly advances in the field of aging research. This book edited by Dr. Tannistha Samanta is both timely and significant. It reminds us that it is no time for complacency even when a large body of empiric
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