Old Age in Nineteenth-Century Ireland Ageing under the Union
Using a combination of statistical analysis of census material and social history, this book describes the ageing of Ireland’s population from the start of the Union up to the introduction of the old age pension in 1908. It examines the changing dem
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Chris Gilleard
Old Age in Nineteenth-Century Ireland Ageing under the Union
Chris Gilleard University College London London, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-58540-0 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-58541-7
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PREFACE
Much is made of the observation that Europe is an ageing continent, and that its various countries face fiscal pressures arising from ‘the historically unprecedented socio-demographic realities of [their] ageing populations’ (Roche 2003: 204). Such comments have become commonplace in the field of social gerontology, a discipline born in the post-World War II era and largely presaged upon the significance of this ‘reality’. The idea of an ageing society seems a thoroughly modern phenomenon – a product of the second half of the twentieth century, closely tied to the epidemiological transition (Omran 1971) and the development of the post-war welfare state (Esping-Andersen and Korpi 1986; Sanz and Velázquez 2007). Universal old age pensions, improved health care for older people and social support at home or in homes were the principal institutional structures fashioned by states to accommodate this ‘unprecedented’ phenomenon. Each of these institutions – pensions, health care and
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