Health in later life is shaped by behavior and policies over the life course and reflects the differences between the societies in which we are ageing. This multidisciplinary book answers questions from all life course phases and its interconnections from a European perspective based on the most...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editors -- Contributors -- 1. A spotlight on health and life courses in Europe using SHARE Waves 6 and 7 / Börsch-Supan, Axel / Bristle, Johanna / Andersen-Ranberg, Karen / Brugiavini, Agar / Jusot, Florence / Litwin, Howard / Weber, Guglielmo -- Part I. Personality...

SHARE is an international survey designed to answer the societal challenges that face us due to rapid population ageing. How do we Europeans age? How will we do economically, socially and healthwise? How are these domains interrelated? The authors of this multidisciplinary book have taken a...

SHARE, the "Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe", is a large population-based panel survey among people aged 50 and over with data from 28 European countries and Israel. It investigates individual, economic, health-related, and social life-course circumstances in order to shed...

Europeans are living longer, and fewer now remain in the labour force as they grow older. Many European countries have responded to the ensuing financial pressure by reforming their public pension systems and health care programmes. There is considerable uncertainty as to the effects of these...