A1.10 Screenshot formatting the data visualisation
A1.11 Screenshot formatting the Y-axis
A1.12 Screenshot demarcating age group data bars
A1.13 Screenshot formatting the X-axis
A1.14 Screenshot of completed population pyramid
Boxes
1.4 The four stages of the demographic transition
1.5 Common myths about ageing populations
2.2 Debunking the myths of ageing
3.1 Pensions around the world
3.2 Fact checking neoliberalism
3.3 What is a birth cohort?
4.1 Dementia in focus
5.1 Experiences of homosexuality between birth cohorts in the UK
5.2 Family of choice
5.3 A brief timeline of LGBTQI* history in the US
5.4 Adapting cognitive assessments for minority ethnic groups
5.5 A brief synopsis of HIV and the homosexual community
6.1 Assumptions about who provides care in old age
7.1 Defining a generation
7.2 Decoding Mannheim’s ‘fundamental facts in relation to generation’
7.3 Birth cohort versus generation
8.1 Defining politics
8.2 A note of caution: population projections are not forecasts
8.3 How to take a long-term view of population change
8.4 Millennials and baby boomers – intergenerational politics
9.1 Culture and health
9.2 G. Stanley Hall’s concept of senescence
9.3 An example of interdisciplinarity: European Network in Aging Studies (ENAS)
9.4 Dementia in culture
Active ageing – A globally popular policy which works on the basis that older people should maximise and optimise their opportunities for health, civic participation and security to enrich individual quality of life and to decrease the burden of an ageing population on society and government.
Age/birth cohort – Those people born and living at the same time and so regarded as a collective group. A birth cohort generally refers to people born within a few years of one another.
Ageism – The prejudice or act of discrimination against a person or group based on age.
Alzheimer’s disease – A progressive and non-reversible generalised degeneration of the brain, affecting memory and thinking skills, eventually affecting activities of daily living. The most common form of dementia in older adults.
Attitude – A positive or negative set of thoughts and feelings held by an individual that influences and explains their actions.
Austerity – A political and economic term referring to policies enacted to reduce government budget deficits through spending cuts, welfare reduction and tax increases. It was a policy much used by Western governments following the global economic crisis of 2008.
Baby boomer – Refers to a person born between 1946 and 1964, immediately following World War II when there was a marked increase in birth rates.
Bed blockers – A derogatory term used to describe older people who remain in hospital, occupying a hospital bed, because there is not adequate community or family support available for them to finish their recovery at home.
Biological determinism – The theory suggesting that human behaviour is all innate, determined by biological attributes such as genetics and not to do with the social environment (for example, the idea that all women are ‘hysterical’ because of their hormones).
Brexit – The political process whereby the United Kingdom is rescinding its membership of, and leaving, the European Union.
Care Quality Commission – An independent regulator in England, monitoring the quality of all health and social care services.
Caregiver – A person who regularly provides help and assistance for health and/or social and personal care needs, in either a paid (formal) or unpaid (informal) capacity.
Chrononormativity – The social norm or expectation that people will experience certain life events or partake in similar experiences at the same stages in life.
Civic participation – Where an individual or individuals act to address an issue of social concern. For example, making a positive change in your local neighbourhood.
Comorbidities – The simultaneous presentation of two or more chronic conditions in the same patient.
Consent – Permission, verbal or written, given by a person or their legal representative, for an action to be taken on their behalf.
Coronavirus/COVID-19 – A viral respiratory infection that passed from an animal to humans in late 2019. The virus emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and by March 2020 was named as a global pandemic by the World Health Organization. The outbreak causes widespread death, illness and serious economic and social disruption to the world economy. The virus is more likely to be fatal in older people, those with underlying illnesses, men, and people from Black and minority ethnic backgrounds. At the time of writing (April 2020), there is no known cure or vaccine against the virus.
Cultural gerontology – The term used to describe the growing interest in using arts and humanities approaches, methods and theories to understand ageing societies in gerontology. See also, Gerontology and Social gerontology.
Cultural turn – The shift in focus to include the arts and humanities theories and methods to understand ageing societies.
Cumulative advantage/cumulative disadvantage – The systematic explanation of the development of advantage or disadvantage over a person’s lifecourse. How individual divergence and differentiation through social categories (wealth, health and so on) result in advantage or disadvantage over time.
Custodial grandparents – Grandparents who take over the full-time raising of their grandchildren, assuming the legal rights and responsibilities that entails.