We provide causal evidence that patient peer effects generate mortality impacts comparable to provider quality differences. Drawing on administrative records covering 2.6 million stays (2000-2010) across 7,200 U.S. nursing homes, we exploit plausibly exogenous roommate assignments identified...

"This book analyses contemporary health, care and aging developments in the western world through a conceptual lens that is utilised by innovative postmodern tools and differential theories. In the current socio-economic climate in the UK, for example, health and social care are at a crossroads...

During the 20th century, pensions in developed countries were generally payable from a statutory retirement age which provided a norm for retirement behaviour and a threshold dividing older from younger age groups. Governments, by setting fixed starting dates for work and retirement, created a...

"This volume presents a range of research approaches to the exploration of ageing during a pandemic situation. One of the first collections of its kind, it offers an array of studies employing research methodologies that lend themselves to replication in similar contexts by those seeking to...

* Mit der Forderung von Gerontotechnik wird die Hoffnung verbunden Alteren ein gesundes und aktives Altern zu ermoglichen sowie einige der aus dem demografischen Wandel resultierenden Probleme fur Gesellschaft und Individuum zu lindern oder ggfs. sogar zu lösen. * Trotz nachgewiesener...

Das vorliegende Buch zum Deutschen Alterssurvey (DEAS) stellt mit einem breiten Themenspektrum dar, dass die Lebensphase Alter vielfältig ist und sich wandelt: Ältere Menschen sind heute aktiver als vor 20 Jahren. Sie sind länger erwerbstätig, engagieren sich häufiger ehrenamtlich, sie...

Sozialraumorientierung lenkt den Blick der Sozialen Arbeit auf die grundlegenden Zusammenhänge räumlicher und sozialer Kontexte. Der Begriff Sozialraumorientierung ist bereits weit verbreitet, zeigt jedoch noch einige Unschärfen, die es zu klären gilt. Dieses Handbuch bietet dafür die...

This article deals with a rather taboo subject: the consequences of prolonging life into extreme old age, now possible with advances in medical procedures. It poses the existential question about the quality of life in the final stage of the human life cycle. I suggest that most of us are more...

Golden years: an introduction -- Older adults in the contemporary United States: a snapshot -- Life course perspectives on social inequalities in later life -- The fit and the frail: physical health among older adults -- The satisfied and sorrowful: the mental health of older adults -- The loved...

Die demographische und epidemiologische Entwicklung ist eine Herausforderung für die öffentliche Daseinsvorsorge. Die gerontologische Analyse des Phänomens des individuellen und kollektiven Alterns wirft Fragen nach einer Sozialraumorientierung auf. Dabei geht es um die...

In this paper the authors present results of an investigation into observable characteristics associated with attrition in ELSA and the HRS, with a particular focus on whether attrition is systematically related to health outcomes and socioeconomic status (SES). Investigating the links between...

In this paper we present results of an investigation into observable characteristics associated with attrition in ELSA and the HRS, with a particular focus on whether attrition is systematically related to health outcomes and socioeconomic status (SES). Investigating the links between health and...

In this paper we present results of an investigation into observable characteristics associated with attrition in ELSA and the HRS, with a particular focus on whether attrition is systematically related to health outcomes and socioeconomic status (SES). Investigating the links between health and...

Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. However, evidence is emerging that late in life well-being declines considerably. Using long-term longitudinal data of deceased participants in national samples from Germany, the UK, and the US, we examine...

Lifespan psychological research has long been interested in the contextual embeddedness of individual development. To examine if and how regional factors relate to between-person disparities in the progression of late-life well-being, we applied three-level growth curve models to 24-year...

Mit diesem Buch gibt Opaschowski Antworten auf die Frage: Wie können wir den Jahren mehr Leben und nicht nur dem Leben mehr Jahre geben? Immer mehr ältere Menschen fühlen sich fit und gesund. Eine Revolution auf leisen Sohlen kündigt sich an: Die Ära des Alterspessimismus geht zu Ende! Eine...