This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary perspective on older adults’ civic engagement. It proposes a conceptual framework which understands civic engagement to be a multidimensional concept that encompasses the diverse activities through which older people contribute to their communities.
Tabella dei contenuti
Part 1: Civic Engagement in Later Life: Conceptual and Methodological Aspects
1. A Conceptual Framework to Understand Civic Engagement in Later Life – Rodrigo Serrat
2. What Characterizes Civic Engagement in Later Life? Micro-, Meso- And Macro-Level Influences – Toon Vercauteren, Fredrica Nyqvist and Marina Näsman
3. A Life-Course Approach to Civic Engagement in Later Life – Sandra Torres and Rodrigo Serrat
Part 2: Understanding Multidimensional Civic Engagement in Later Life
4. Informal Helping Behaviours in Later Life – Montse Celdrán and Karima Chacur-Kiss
5. Associational Memberships in Later Life – Fredrica Nyqvist, Mikael Nygärd and Emilia Häkkinen
6. Older People’s Formal Volunteering – Sarah Dury, Erin Grinshteyn and Marja Aartsen
7. Older People’s Political Participation – Rodrigo Serrat and Clemens Tesch-Römer
8. Digital Civic Engagement in Later Life – Arlind Reuter and Thomas Scharf
Part 3: Civic Engagement within a Diverse Older Population
9. Older People with Disabilities – Maria Dolores Majon Valpuesta and Mélanie Levasseur
10. Older People Living in Long-Term Care Settings – Feliciano Villar and Inma Peiró-Milián
11. Older People with Diverse Migrant Backgrounds – Pernilla Ågård and Sandra Torres
12. Older People Living in Socially Disadvantaged Urban Areas – Bas Dikmans, Sarah Dury and Liesbeth de Donder
13. Older People Living in Rural Communities – Rachel Winterton, Mark Skinner and Kieran Walsh
Part 4: Future Directions for Policy and Research into Late Life Civic Engagement
14. Looking back and Moving Forward: Future Directions for Research on Civic Engagement in Later Life – Rodrigo Serrat
Circa l’autore
Dr. Kieran Walsh is Senior Research Fellow at Project Lifecourse and Deputy Director of the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, National University of Ireland Galway.