The Ageing of Great Britain
Grey Nightmare or Agenda for a Silver Age?
Published on 28. November 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-1-78901-819-6 (ISBN)
Description
Great Britain is ageing, but doesn't seem to know it. Despite numerous warnings from official reports, the Government has ignored or neglected the 'car-crashes' ahead. Our Health & Social Care services, our pensions system and our housing provision are all in crisis whilst almost every family now faces the dilemma of ageing parents and boomerang children unable to leave home.
Yet it doesn't have to be all doom & grey gloom. In this detailed new book, Martin Slattery seeks to show there is a "silver side" to this Age Revolution; the potential for a New Age manifesto that might propel Ageing up the political agenda, create a new Intergenerational Social Contract and force the government to plan ahead for the 100 Year Life now facing over a third of all children born today. If the Japanese, the Scandinavians and the Bolivians can do it, why not Great Britain? We owe that to our children and to the generations ahead.
Welcome to the Ageing World of the 21st Century!
Yet it doesn't have to be all doom & grey gloom. In this detailed new book, Martin Slattery seeks to show there is a "silver side" to this Age Revolution; the potential for a New Age manifesto that might propel Ageing up the political agenda, create a new Intergenerational Social Contract and force the government to plan ahead for the 100 Year Life now facing over a third of all children born today. If the Japanese, the Scandinavians and the Bolivians can do it, why not Great Britain? We owe that to our children and to the generations ahead.
Welcome to the Ageing World of the 21st Century!
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Market Harborough
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Troubador Publishing
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78901-819-6 (9781789018196)
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Person
Born in 1949 at the leading edge of the Baby Boomer era, Martin Slattery has held leading roles in educational institutions and in innovating change. He is the author of a number of textbooks in the fields of Sociology & Politics and he has written The Ageing of Great Britain as a means to both raising public consciousness about the Ageing Crises.