This multiauthor volume is part of a series of publications focused on the economics of healthy and active aging from the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. Following a general introduction of the issues to be considered, the text includes a description of the demographic trends and the status of various inequalities (age, gender, ethnic, socioeconomic, geographic, health) in Europe; a review of the politics of aging, including age-bloc-related voting trends; and a detailed analysis of the prevalent mechanisms underlying the development of age-related policies and programs.
Seven authors of varying seniority are listed, ranging from highly respected senior professors to postdocs, with faculty appointments in academic departments of political science, health policy and management, population health, and social policy in both the United Kingdom and the United States. The volume has a sense of being a hybrid between an edited collection of chapters and a truly cohesive, unified...
