Chapter 1: Ageing with care: aiming for equity and inclusion

Our teams book AGEING EQUITABLY WITH CARE has been published on open access! The book is a carefully curated and edited book by team that covers the learnings from our project, the communities we have worked with and our partners. Each week we will be highlighting a chapter for our community. This week we are covering Chapter 1, Ageing with care: Aiming for equity and inclusion written by Tamara Daly and Susan Braedley.

This chapter does an exploration on an age-friendly world and suggests that it depends on prioritizing both age equity and decent care work. The chapter begins by unpacking the foundational assumptions behind the book’s central concept of “age equity with care.” It then introduces the international, interdisciplinary research collaboration that shaped this idea, highlighting the project’s goal of identifying policies and practices that promote fairness and dignity in ageing and care. Finally, the chapter closes by offering an overview of the book, emphasizing that advancing age equity demands attention to the diversity of older adults and care workers. It also argues that there needs to be a critical examination of the political economy of ageing and care, and concerted efforts to dismantle systems of oppression and inequality embedded in policy, data, practice, and everyday life.

To read the full chapter and the rest of our book find it here on the Bristol University Press Digital webpage