This week, Chapter 15 from Tamara Daly addresses how global forces like climate change, economic globalization, and shifting political landscapes are shaping how people grow older, often deepening inequality and inequity.
According to Tamara Daly “…a ‘longevity divide‘ marks those who will live longer, healthier and wealthier by cashing in their ‘longevity dividend’, from those who will not. The latter group live and die under a ‘longevity penalty‘: the result of a cumulative disadvantage that accrues interest over their lives, ballooning their individual costs, and robbing them of time. (Chapter 15, p. 256-7)
At the same time, older activists are showing that inequity can be challenged. They are building solidarity, resisting injustice, and redefining aging as a space for leadership and change. This chapter builds on that momentum, asking what researchers and advocates must do to close the longevity divide and support a more just and equitable future for aging.
To read the full chapter and the rest of our book find it here on the Bristol University Press Digital webpage
Imagine Aging 
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