Building Evidence for Active Ageing Policies

Chapter 1. Introducing Active Ageing Index and its potential; Asghar Zaidi, Sarah Harper,  Kenneth Howse, Giovanni Lamura and Jolanta Perek-Bialas.-PART I: USE OF ACTIVE AGEING INDEX FOR POLICYMAKING.- Chapter 2. Are Societies With A High Value On The Active Ageing Index More Age-Integrated?; Pearl A. Dykstra and Maria Fleischmann.- Chapter 3. The Expected, Evaluated, Perceived, Valued, and Prevalent Social Roles of Older People: Are They By Consent?; Lucie Vidovicová.- Chapter 4. The Active Ageing Index and Its Relation to the Quality of Life of Older Adults; Marcela Petrová Kafková.- Chapter 5. Complementing AAI at the Meso Level - The Silver Work Index; Anne Marit Wöhrmann, Jürgen Deller and Leena Pundt.- PART II: SUBNATIONAL ADAPTATIONS OF THE AAI.- ont-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Chapter 6. The Active Ageing Index in a Southern European region (Biscay): Main results and potentials for policymaking; Amaia Bacigalupe, Yolanda González-Rábago, Unai Martín, Sergio Murillo and Alfonso Unceta.-Chapter 7. Evaluating socio-economic impact of Age-Friendly Environments; Mireia Ferri Sanz, Jorge Garcés Ferrer, Willeke van Staalduinen, Rodd Bond and Menno Hinkema.- Chapter 8. The Active Ageing Index: A tool to develop the Strategy of Active Ageing in the Basque Country (Spain); Rodriguez-Laso, O. Mayoral, Mayte Sancho And L. Amilibia.- Chapter 9: Greying Italy Across Time, Space And Gender; Luciana Quattrociocchi, Daria Squillante And Mauro Tibaldi.- Part III Comparative Analysis Of Active Ageing.- Chapter 10: Differences In Active Ageing Index In Eastern European Countries. A Comparison Of Poland And The Czech Republic; Kasia Karpinska.- Chapter 11: Ageing In A Multicultural Europe Perspectives And Challenges; Eralba Cela And Mariateresa Ciommi.- Chapter 12: Estimating Weights For The Active Ageing Index (AAA) From Stated Preferences: A Proposal For A Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE); Christian

Asghar Zaidi is Professor in International Social Policy at University of Southampton, UK, Visiting Professor at London School of Economics, UK and Senior Advisor at European Centre in Vienna, Austria.
Sarah Harper is Professor of Gerontology and Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing at University of Oxford, UK.
Kenneth Howse is Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford, UK.
Giovanni Lamura is a social gerontologist with an international and interdisciplinary background, and works at Italian National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing.
Jolanta Perek-Bialas is a graduate of Warsaw School of Economics, Poland, and currently works at the Institute of Statistics and Demography there.