New Dynamics in Old Age: Individual, Environmental and Societal Perspectives

This text was nurtured by the belief that the new dynamics of today's and tomorrow's aging has not yet been treated well in the gerontology literature.

Several questions drove the choice of substance for the book: What kind of new dynamics of aging deserves consideration?

What kinds of theories and fields are at the core of treating such a new dynamics? And what kind of empirical evidence should be considered?

The master hypothesis on which the book is based maintains that the new dynamics of old age is best observed in a range of everyday aging contexts that have been undergoing major change since the second half of the 20th century.