This study investigates the role of childhood conditions and societal context in older Europeans’ propensity to age successfully, controlling for later life risk factors. Successful aging was assessed following Rowe and Kahn’s conceptualization, using baseline interviews from the first two...

Using data from the 2004 'Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe' (SHARE), this paper continues and extends recent cross-national research on the proximity and contacts of elderly parents to their adult children. To begin with, we provide a brief description of the 'geography of the...

Parallel zur Debatte um die demographische Alterung der Gesellschaft - häufig als wachsende "Alterslast" interpretiert - ist in den vergangenen Jahren auch der Bedeutung produktiver Tätigkeitsfelder älterer Menschen nach ihrem Ausscheiden aus dem Beruf - und hier insbesondere dem Ehrenamt -...