Active ageing, Voluntary work by older people in Europe, Voluntary work by older people in Europe

Year

2014

Publisher

Bristol University Press

Language

English

Pages

Link

Last Update

29-Jul-2026

Keywords

Sociology

Description

Active ageing’ is a relatively new concept formulated in the 1990s on the basis of work carried out by the World Health Organization (WHO) and subsequently adopted by the European Union (EU) (Walker and Maltby, 2012). Use of this concept has become pervasive, especially in the EU, as a response to the ageing of the population, and to some degree as a result of shifts in the economic and demographic prospects for the future. The idea and concept of active ageing bears some resemblance to the concept of ‘active society’, that is, a society in which participation in paid employment...