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Happy holidays from the Age-Friendly Team!
As we wrap up the year, we want to thank you for your continued support and engagement with us and our project. Wishing you a season filled with rest, connection, and joy-and a new year full of possibility, progress, and shared purpose!
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Chapter 6: Ageing, intersectionality, social location and identity
This week, in Chapter 6 our authors- Donna Baines and Renate Ysseldyk look at aging as both a site of possibility and struggle, particularly in urban spaces. This chapter challenges the reader to think more critically about how cities, policies, and social care systems shape who gets to age well and who doesn’t. The chapter reminds…
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Counting care workers: when the ‘muddle’ is the message
In Chapter 5, Counting Care Workers: When the “Muddle” is the Message, authors Tamara Daly, Sara Charlesworth, Frode F. Jacobsen, and Katherine Laxer look at what we actually know about long-term care workers, the people who make care for older adults possible. Their big question: Do policymakers have the data they need to plan for…
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Chapter 4: Who gets counted? Ageing statistics and advancing age equity
This week we are covering Chapter 4, Who gets counted? Ageing statistics and advancing age equity, authored by Madeline McCoy and Renate Ysseldyk. Our authors this week take on a very interesting topic- Who is actually included in data sets and who isn’t? When it comes to older adults, much research relies heavily on national and international…
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Chapter 3: Age-friendly for all? Equality and equity in the changing landscape of the social democratic welfare state
In this week we are covering Chapter 3, Age-friendly for all? Equality and equity in the changing landscape of the social democratic welfare state authored by Gudmund Ågotnes and Bodil H. Blix. In this chapter our authors discuss how Nordic countries are often celebrated for their strong social welfare systems but these systems are built on a key…
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