Building Evidence for Active Ageing Policies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Towards an Evidence-Based Active Ageing Strategy

   • Asghar Zaidi, Sarah Harper, Kenneth Howse, Giovanni Lamura, Jolanta Perek-Białas

   Pages 1-15

3. Building Evidence for Active Ageing Policies Active Ageing Index and its Potential

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Are Societies with a High Value on the Active Ageing Index More Age Integrated?

      • Pearl A. Dykstra, Maria Fleischmann

      Pages 19-37

   3. The Expected, Evaluated, Perceived, Valued and Prevalent Social Roles of Older People: Are They by Consent?

      • Lucie Vidovićová

      Pages 39-54

   4. The Active Ageing Index (AAI) and its Relation to the Quality of Life of Older Adults

      • Marcela Petrová Kafková

      Pages 55-74

   5. Complementing AAI at the Meso Level: The Silver Work Index

      • Anne Marit Wöhrmann, Jürgen Deller, Leena Pundt

      Pages 75-94

4. Subnational Adaptations of the AAI

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. The Active Ageing Index in a Southern European Region (Biscay): Main Results and Potentials for Policymaking

      • Amaia Bacigalupe, Yolanda González-Rábago, Unai Martín, Sergio Murillo, Alfonso Unceta

      Pages 97-115

   3. Evaluating Socio-economic Impact of Age-Friendly Environments

      • Mireia Ferri Sanz, Jorge Garcés Ferrer, Willeke van Staalduinen, Rodd Bond, Menno Hinkema

      Pages 117-138

   4. The Active Ageing Index: A Tool to Develop the Strategy of Active Ageing in the Basque Country (Spain)

      • Elena del Barrio, Angel Rodriguez-Laso, Olga Mayoral, Mayte Sancho, Lide Amilibia

      Pages 139-165

   5. Greying Italy Across Time, Space, and Gender

      • Luciana Quattrociocchi, Daria Squillante, Mauro Tibaldi

      Pages 167-189

5. Comparative Analysis of Active Ageing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191

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   2. Differences in Active Ageing Index in Eastern European Countries: A Comparison of Poland and the Czech Republic

      • Kasia Karpinska

      Pages 193-209

   3. Ageing in a Multicultural Europe: Perspectives and Challenges

      • Eralba Cela, Mariateresa Ciommi

      Pages 211-237

   4. Estimating Weights for the Active Ageing Index (AAI) from Stated Preferences: Proposal for a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE)

      • Christian Ernst Heinrich Boehler, Timea Mariann Helter, Ibrahim-Kholilul Rohman, Fabienne Abadie

      Pages 239-258

6. Methodological Improvements in Measuring Active Ageing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 259-259

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   2. A Cross-country and Cohort Analysis of Active Ageing Differences Among the Elderly in Europe

      • Javier Olivera

      Pages 261-294

   3. Active Ageing Typologies: A Latent Class Analysis of the Older Europeans

      • Bruno Arpino, Valeria Bordone

      Pages 295-311

   4. How Relevant is Active Ageing? Evidence from Portugal

      • Sara Valente de Almeida, Pedro Pita Barros

      Pages 313-341

This book provides multinational evidence on active and healthy ageing. It generates authoritative new knowledge for mutual learning and policymaking in addressing challenges linked with population ageing. The authors discuss how to achieve better active ageing outcomes through appropriate policies including addressing life course determinants of active and healthy ageing. The chapters are distinctive in their focus on quantitative analysis of active and healthy ageing based on a first-of-its-kind composite measure, the Active Ageing Index developed during the 2012 European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations. Contributors include researchers, civil service representatives, policymakers and other stakeholders from national, regional and European organisations. This edited volume provides a multidisciplinary resource for academics and policy makers in various areas of the social sciences, especially those studying population ageing and its consequences, economists, sociologists, social policy analysts and public health experts. 

• Ageing
• Active ageing
• Active Ageing Index
• Health and Pensions in Europe
• Population ageing
• AAI
• Social Roles of Older People
• Silver Work Index
• Ageing in China
• Ageing in Portugal
• Ageing in Europe
• Ageing in Latin America
• Ageing in Russia
• Ageing in the Basque Country
• Ageing in Spain

• University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

  Asghar Zaidi

• University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  Sarah Harper, Kenneth Howse

• INRCA National Institute of Health and Science on Aging, Ancona, Italy

  Giovanni Lamura

• Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Kraków, Poland

  Jolanta Perek-Białas

Asghar Zaidi is Professor in International Social Policy at University of Southampton, UK, Visiting Professor at London School of Economics, UK and Senior Advisor at European Centre in Vienna, Austria.


Sarah Harper is Professor of Gerontology and Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing at University of Oxford, UK.


Kenneth Howse is Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford, UK.


Giovanni Lamura is a social gerontologist with an international and interdisciplinary background, and works at Italian National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing.


Jolanta Perek-Białas is a graduate of Warsaw School of Economics, Poland, and currently works at the Institute of Statistics and Demography there.

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