Civic Engagement in Later Life

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Older adults’ civic engagement has become a key concern in academic and policy debates in recent years. However, existing studies on this topic remain fragmented across various conceptual and methodological approaches.

This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and multidimensional perspective on older adults' civic engagement. It proposes a conceptual framework which understands civic engagement as a multidimensional concept encompassing a diversity of activities through which older adults contribute to their communities and wider society. Contributors explore the factors shaping older adults’ participation in various civic activities across the life course, considering their diversity in terms of social locations such as gender, health status, migrant background, socioeconomic background and residential arrangements.

By analysing past and current research, policy and practice, the book offers recommendations for future efforts to advance the field.

Contributor: Marja Aartsen (Contributions by), Mikael Nygård (Contributions by), Kieran Walsh (Contributions by), Liesbeth De Donder (Contributions by), Feliciano Posada Villar (Contributions by), Clemens Tesch-Römer (Contributions by), Toon Vercauteren (Contributions by), María Dolores Majón Valpuesta (Contributions by), Arlind Reuter (Contributions by), Erin Grinshteyn (Contributions by), Mark Skinner (Contributions by), Inma Peiro-Milian (Contributions by), Mélanie Levasseur (Contributions by), Fredrica Nyqvist (Contributions by), Montserrat Celdrán (Contributions by), Sandra Torres (Contributions by), Karima Chacur (Contributions by), Pernilla Ågård (Contributions by), Bas Dikmans (Contributions by), Thomas Scharf (Contributions by), Sarah Dury (Contributions by), Rachel Winterton (Contributions by), Marina Näsman (Contributions by), Emilia Häkkinen (Contributions by), Rodrigo Serrat (Edited by)

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