Ageing Equitably with Care : Power, Policy, Practice / Tesia Wood, Christine Streeter, Gudmund Ågotnes, Bodil Blix-Hansen, Madeline McCoy, Renate Ysseldyk, Sara Charlesworth, Frode F. Jacobsen, Katherine Laxer, and Donna Baines

Front Cover -- Ageing Equitably with Care: Power, Policy, Practice -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series editors' preface Chris Phillipson (University of Manchester, UK), Toni Calasanti (Virginia, Tech, USA) and Anna Wanka (Goethe-​Universit a t, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) As the older population continues to expand across the global N -- List of figures and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Ageing with care: aiming for equity and inclusion -- Introduction -- Our research project -- This book -- Part I: Power, knowledge, skills -- Part II: Policies, practices, people -- Notes -- References -- Part I Power, knowledge, skills -- 2 Traversing the cityscape: locating age-​friendly, age inclusion and age equity -- Introduction -- Our approach -- Traversing the cityscape from age-​friendly towards age equity and age inclusion -- Age-​friendly -- Age inclusive -- Age equity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Age-​friendly for all? Equality and equity in the changing landscape of the social democratic welfare state -- Introduction -- Background -- A changing welfare state? -- Age-​friendliness in the changing Nordic welfare state -- Equality and equity in the changing welfare state -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Who gets counted? Ageing statistics and advancing age equity -- Introduction -- Canadian and international health surveys -- Canadian surveys -- International surveys -- Gender and culture: who is included and excluded? -- Sex and gender identity -- Culture, ethnicity, religion, and indigeneity -- Promising practices in data collection -- Discussion and implications for age-​equity -- References -- 5 Counting care workers: when the 'muddle' is the message -- Introduction -- Defining data gaps -- Data strength -- Data clarity -- Public availability -- Comparing the care work data regimes.

Australia -- Canada -- Norway -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Ageing, intersectionality, social location and identity -- Introduction -- A brief review: intersectional literature -- Individual-​based and singular analyses of identity -- Alternatives to individually-​based, singular analyses of identity -- Further intersectional analysis and theory drawing on field note examples -- Age-​friendly cities and conceptual tools for intersectional analyses -- Other critical skills -- Discussion and conclusions -- References -- Part II Policies, practices, people -- 7 Queering age-​friendliness: addressing safety, indicating equity -- Introduction -- Why queer age-​friendly movements? -- Our research -- Queering age-friendliness: it's about safety -- Indicators to advance age-​equity that include queer older adults -- Evidence that power has been shifted to diverse 2SLGBTQI groups and communities -- Evidence of 2SLGBTQI meaningful representation in policy and practice decision-​making -- Evidence of sectoral and organisational change to affirm 2SLGBTQI service users and workers -- Ensure 2SLGBTQI representation and employment equity in the workforce -- Ensure evidence-​informed training throughout organisations to promote 2SLGBTQI safety and accessibility -- Make 2SLGBTQI affirmation visible in signs, symbols and celebrations -- Queering age-​friendly: next steps -- Notes -- References -- 8 Super-​invisibility: 'older' care workers in home care and residential long-​term care -- Introduction -- Invisibility traps for older LTC workers -- Invisibility trap 1: Precarious work leads to pension precarity -- Invisibility trap 2: Retention is not working -- Invisibility trap 3: Unacceptably low health and safety protections -- Invisibility trap 4: Data gaps -- Where to from here? Age-​inclusive bargaining to address age equity -- Skills and pay.

'Age-​equitable' bargaining -- Concluding thoughts: Making older care workers super- ​ visible -- Notes -- References -- 9 Resistance, resilience and relationship: Indigenous older adults and ageing in the Canadian city -- Introduction -- Background -- Data considerations with Indigenous older adult population size -- Indigenous older adults' health: the problem of statistics -- Settler colonialism's impact on Indigenous Peoples' health -- Settler colonialism and ageing -- Loss of culture -- Poverty and disability -- Racism -- (Dis)connection -- Forced migration -- Relationships and ageing -- Relationship to home in the city -- Relationships with other indigenous older adults -- Relationships with health and social care workers -- Concluding thoughts -- Note -- References -- 10 Triple jeopardy: addressing age equity for older immigrant women -- Introduction -- The studies -- Older immigrant women in Canada: a focus on care labour -- Triple jeopardy: the conditions of ageing and caring for immigrant older women -- Jeopardy 1: Material conditions -- Jeopardy 2: Language, loneliness and social isolation -- Jeopardy 3: The material conditions of ethnocultural groups for older adults -- Advancing age equity: concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- 11 'East' meets 'West': trans-​national ageing in a space of 'cultural liminality' -- Introduction -- Our example -- Cultural liminality 1: Political and economic security -- Cultural liminality 2: State support for older adults -- Cultural liminality 3: Family formation and gender roles -- Cultural liminality 4: Normative views of ageing -- Cultural liminality: a useful concept for policy and practice -- References -- 12 The promise of dementia-​friendly approaches: addressing stigma -- Introduction -- Age-​ and dementia-​friendly communities -- Stigma and dementia.

Friendships as a central feature of dementia-​friendly communities -- References -- 13 Addressing social barriers to age-​equitable public transportation: don't miss the bus! -- Introduction -- Transportation, social exclusion and social isolation -- Older adults' transport disadvantage in Ottawa: the study -- Moving along: what makes for age-​equitable public transit? -- Moving along: filling the gaps with community-​based transportation -- Moving toward age-​equitable public transportation -- Note -- References -- 14 Your days are numbered: active ageing, wearable technologies and surveillance capitalism -- Introduction -- Setting the context: the roots of active ageing -- Current formulations of active ageing -- Neo-​liberalism and surveillance capitalism -- Fitbit: a health-care company? -- Implications -- Neo-​liberal monitoring -- Narrowed meaning of health -- Responsibilisation -- Synergies between age-​friendly cities and surveillance capitalism -- Conclusion -- References -- 15 The longevity divide in a globalised climate - a forward conclusion -- Introduction -- Setting the stage: tensions between economic and political freedoms -- Post-​First World War, Keynesianism and welfare state programs -- Advancing neo-​liberalism -- Economic globalisation -- New phase: divide and conquer -- New market frontiers -- Getting in the zone -- Weakening solidarity, spreading divisions -- Fighting back: climate change and Swiss Grannies -- A forward conclusion: Why the new processes of economic globalisation matter for ageing -- Note -- References -- Index.

What are the consequences of growing old and needing care in a world shaped by inequality? Who provides the care? What are the challenges? This groundbreaking book delves into conditions for ageing and caring, asking how they could be improved for different communities living in high-income welfare states. Emphasising that equitable ageing depends on equitable care conditions, the contributors draw on extensive empirical research. Packed with actionable policy and practice insights, this compelling volume charts a path toward a more just and inclusive future for ageing populations alongside all those providing care, whether as family members, friends or as paid workers.