Naslov
Economics and Aging - Emmerging Issues

Urednik/ci
Barković Bojanić, Ivana ; Erceg, Aleksandar

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija knjige
Uredničke knjige, monografija, znanstvena

Izdavač
Ekonomski fakultet Sveučilišta Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku

Grad
Osijek

Godina
2022

Stranica
230

ISBN
978-953-253-192-3

Ključne riječi
aging, economics, emerging issues

Sažetak
Population aging is an unstoppable demographic trend on a global level. Data and estimations point out that by 2030, 1 in 6 people will be 60 years and over, and the share of the population aged 60 and over will increase from 1 billion in 2020 to 1.4 billion. Furthermore, by 2050, the world’s population aged 60 and older will reach 2.1 billion. Persons aged 80 years and older are also expected to triple between 2020 and 2050, reaching 426 million (World Health Organization, 2021). Prolonged life expectancy, as well as changes in the age structure of the population, where the share of the elderly population is increasing and the share of the working population is on a downward trajectory, have significantly changed perceptions and paradigms related to an individual and collective approach to aging and its consequences for the economy and society as a whole. The perception of the traditional pattern of the life cycle - education, work, retirement - is changing. Individuals, organizations, and society are facing far-reaching consequences that require personal, organizational and socio- political intervention in creating a social environment capable of mitigating macroeconomic pressures and creating an environment that is friendly towards the older population and their needs and abilities. This edited book “Economics and Aging: Emerging Issues” is the third in a row dealing with aging, following the books “Aging Society: Rethinking and Redesigning the Retirement” (2020) and “Strategic Approach to Aging Population” (2021). As editors who come from the field of economics, we continue to follow the same line of reasoning as in previous editions. We are proposing yet again a multidisciplinary approach as a paradigm of a unified effort from different scientific disciplines to provide theoretical and empirical contributions to aging and related topics in a pluralistic way. We titled the book “Economics and Aging” instead of “The Economics of Aging” to emphasize that we are not oriented solely towards (economic) modeling aging. However, we are open to scientific research diversity and ideas that can capture aging as a true phenomenon. We would like to extend our gratitude to all authors who joined us in this book. More than twenty academic scholars invested time and effort in making a scientific contribution related to aging and relevant topics in economic theory, demography, finances, entrepreneurship, construction, technology, and health and nutrition. The research findings can be beneficial to deepening our understanding of aging and its socio-economic consequences. Moreover, they can be policy-relevant when considering what should be done to ensure that older people remain healthy, active, respected, and included members of society. After all, inclusive, sustainable, and age-sensitive societies will prosper in the years to come.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Ekonomija

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