Healthy Ageing: A Capability Approach to Inclusive Policy and Practice

by Christine Stephens and Mary Breheny

What does it mean to age well? This important new book redefines what 'successful' ageing means, challenging the idea that physical health is the only criteria to gauge the ageing process and that an ageing population is necessarily a burden upon society.

Using Sen's Capability Approach as a theoretical starting point Healthy Ageing: A Capability Approach to Inclusive Policy and Practice outlines a nuanced perspective that transcends the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138193925
• ISBN13: 9781138193925
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"