Social Exclusion in Later Life

Chapter 1. Introduction: The intersection of ageing and social exclusion. Part I: Economic Exclusion.- Chapter 2. Introduction: Framing economic exclusion.- Chapter 3. Socio-demographic differences across welfare regimes in material deprivation in Europe among individuals aged 50 and older.- Chapter 4. Unemployment at 50 +: economic and psychosocial consequences.- Chapter 5. Coping mechanisms of older age divorced and widowed women to mitigate economic exclusion: A qualitative study in Turkey and Serbia.- Part II: Exclusion from Social Relations.- Chapter 6. Introduction: Framing exclusion from social relations.- Chapter 7. Exclusion from social relations among older people in Belgium and Britain: A cross-national exploration of similarities and differences taking a life-course and multi-level perspective.- Chapter 8. Revisiting loneliness and social isolation: Prevalence, predictors and policy Consequences.- Chapter 9. Conflicting relations, abuse and discrimination in older adults.- Part III: Exclusion from Services.- Chapter 10. Introduction: Framing exclusion from services.- Chapter 11. Old age exclusion from services in Romania and Slovenia in a European comparative perspective.- Chapter 12. Care services in Central and Eastern European countries and the Russian Federation: Exclusion and the roads of innovation.- Chapter 13. Receiving care in a digitised world: Social and economic aspects of exclusion of older people.- Part IV: Community and Spatial Exclusion.- Chapter 14. Introduction: Framing community and spatial exclusion.- Chapter 15. From theory to practice: Older people's exclusion in cities through the 'Ageing, Space and Exclusion' triangle.- Chapter 16- The relationship between place and life-course transitions in old-age social exclusion: A cross-country analysis.- Chapter 17. Ageing and caring in rural environments: Actors, policies and contexts addressing the social exclusion.- Part V: Civic Exclusion.- Chapter 18. Introduction: Framing communityand

Kieran Walsh is Professor of Ageing & Public Policy and Director of the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, National University of Ireland Galway. Prior to taking up this role in 2018, he served as Project Director of Project Lifecourse within the Institute for Lifecourse and Society, a programme of work dedicated to capturing the lived experiences of children and youth, older people and people with disabilities in urban neighbourhoods. Kieran's research interests include: social exclusion in later life; the mediating role of public and social policy; place and life-course transitions; and informal and formal infrastructures of care. Kieran is Chair of the European COST Action CA15122 on 'Reducing Old-Age Social Exclusion', which comprises over 180 members from 41 different countries.Thomas Scharf is Professor of Social Gerontology in the Population Health Sciences Institute and Co-Director of the Centre for Ageing & Inequalities at Newcastle University. He joined Newcastle in 2016, having previously been Director of the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, NUI Galway. Tom is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences and holds visiting professorships at NUI Galway and Keele University. He is President of the British Society of Gerontology (until 2022). Tom is Vice Chair of the European COST Action CA15122 on 'Reducing Old-Age Social Exclusion'. Tom's research addresses issues relating to social inclusion and exclusion in later life, often with a focus on the spaces and places in which inclusion and exclusion arise and on the policy responses to forms of exclusion.