Retiring in a New Age: Life After Paid Work

Coping with an ageing population is one of the grand challenges that confronts all developed countries at present.It is also one which interacts with other pressing issues facing these societies.Inward migration, is in large part, driven by the need to provide health and social care to the aged, while older voters are a prime constituency of populist parties of the radical right.Indeed, in the foreword to this book, Barry O.Jones, one of the founders of the fourth age movement, notes a growing problem of what he terms 'senile delinquency'.He defines this as, '[r]age, resentment, violent and discriminatory behaviour, a reversion to tribalism and hostility to "the Other" and-in many cases heavy dependence on alcohol, drugs, gambling, domestic violence and dangerous driving'.'The 47 th President of the United States, now 78', he notes, 'may prove to be a significant case study'.