Health and care in ageing societies: a new international approach

The ageing of the population results in many debates about viable, effective, efficient and necessary health and social care policies for older people. This book challenges the traditional view that these policies should promote cost containment, functional health and independence in older people by presenting a critical analysis of why it is that the policy agenda has been framed in this manner. Using a feminist ethics framework, the book presents a perspective which is based on the idea that practices of care (including global and local contexts) are closely linked to political and economic agendas. As such, “...it offers an alternative way of conceptualizing health and care...through its explanation of the link between care and health in later life” (p. 139).