Building Evidence for Active Ageing Policies: Active Ageing Index and its Potential

471 Pages·2018·6.97 MB·English

by  Asghar Zaidi

BUILDING EVIDENCE FOR
ACTIVE AGEING POLICIES
ACTIVE AGEING INDEX AND ITS POTENTIAL
Edited by Asghar Zaidi,
Sarah Harper,
Kenneth Howse,
Giovanni Lamura
and Jolanta Perek-Białas
Building Evidence for Active Ageing Policies
Asghar Zaidi • Sarah Harper
Kenneth Howse • Giovanni
Lamura • Jolanta Perek-Białas
Editors
Building Evidence for
Active Ageing
Policies
Active Ageing Index and its Potential
Editors
Asghar Zaidi Sarah Harper
University of Southampton University of Oxford
Southampton, UK Oxford, UK
Kenneth Howse Giovanni Lamura
University of Oxford INRCA National Institute of Health and
Oxford, UK Science on Aging
Ancona, Italy
Jolanta Perek-Białas
Jagiellonian University in Kraków
Kraków, Poland
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Contents
1 Towards an Evidence-Based Active Ageing Strategy 1
Asghar Zaidi, Sarah Harper, Kenneth Howse, Giovanni
Lamura, and Jolanta Perek-Białas
Part I Building Evidence for Active Ageing Policies
Active Ageing Index and its Potential 17
2 Are Societies with a High Value on the Active Ageing
Index More Age Integrated? 19
Pearl A. Dykstra and Maria Fleischmann
3 The Expected, Evaluated, Perceived, Valued and Prevalent
Social Roles of Older People: Are They by Consent? 39
Lucie Vidovićová
4 The Active Ageing Index (AAI) and its Relation to the
Quality of Life of Older Adults 55
Marcela Petrová Kafková
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5 Complementing AAI at the Meso Level: The Silver
Work Index 75
Anne Marit Wöhrmann, Jürgen Deller, and Leena Pundt
Part II Subnational Adaptations of the AAI 95
6 The Active Ageing Index in a Southern European Region
(Biscay): Main Results and Potentials for Policymaking 97
Amaia Bacigalupe, Yolanda González-Rábago, Unai
Martín, Sergio Murillo, and Alfonso Unceta
7 Evaluating Socio-economic Impact of Age-Friendly
Environments 117
Mireia Ferri Sanz, Jorge Garcés Ferrer, Willeke van
Staalduinen, Rodd Bond, and Menno Hinkema
8 The Active Ageing Index: A Tool to Develop the
Strategy of Active Ageing in the Basque Country (Spain) 139
Elena del Barrio, Angel Rodriguez-Laso, Olga Mayoral,
Mayte Sancho, and Lide Amilibia
9 Greying Italy Across Time, Space, and Gender 167
Luciana Quattrociocchi, Daria Squillante, and Mauro
Tibaldi
Part III Comparative Analysis of Active Ageing 191
10 Differences in Active Ageing Index in Eastern
European Countries: A Comparison of Poland
and the Czech Republic 193
Kasia Karpinska
Conten ts vii
11 Ageing in a Multicultural Europe: Perspectives and
Challenges 211
Eralba Cela and Mariateresa Ciommi
12 Estimating Weights for the Active Ageing Index (AAI)
from Stated Preferences: Proposal for a Discrete Choice
Experiment (DCE) 239
Christian Ernst Heinrich Boehler, Timea Mariann Helter,
Ibrahim-Kholilul Rohman, and Fabienne Abadie
Part IV Methodological Improvements in Measuring
Active Ageing 259
13 A Cross-country and Cohort Analysis of Active
Ageing Differences Among the Elderly in Europe 261
Javier Olivera
14 Active Ageing Typologies: A Latent Class Analysis
of the Older Europeans 295
Bruno Arpino and Valeria Bordone
15 How Relevant is Active Ageing? Evidence from Portugal 313
Sara Valente de Almeida and Pedro Pita Barros
16 Study on Active Ageing at Individual Level Based
on Active Ageing Index 343
Coro Piñeiro Vázquez, Jesús Marcial Méndez Magán, Sara
Marsillas Rascado, Antonio Rial Boubeta, Teresa
Braña Tobío, and Jesús Varela Mallou
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Part V Use of Active Ageing Index in Non-EU Countries 363
17 Comparative Study of Active Ageing in China
and the EU Countries 365
Qian Xiong and Arkadiusz Wiśniowski
18 Quality of Life of the Elderly and Applicability of the
Active Ageing Index to Latin American Countries 385
Javiera Fanta
19 Active Ageing Index: A Russian Study 409
Galina A. Barysheva, Elena A. Frolova, Veronika A.
Malanina, and Ekaterina A. Taran
20 Active Ageing Index (AAI) in India: Is the Approach
Used in European Countries Applicable to Developing
Countries? 437
Aravinda Meera Guntupalli and Suchandrima Chakraborty
Index 465
List of Figures
Fig. 3.1 Level of importance of different life domains by age of
respondent (mean value). Source: European Value
Study (2008), N = 56,190; own calculations 45
Fig. 3.2 Overview of different approaches to the social roles of
older people 52
Fig. 4.1 Quality of life and (economic) participation
(principal component analysis) 66
Fig. 4.2 Relation between quality of life and the dimension
of the AAI at the level of EU countries 67
Fig. 5.1 Process of SWI development 78
Fig. 5.2 Iterative proceedings in the content analysis 80
Fig. 5.3 House of SWI 82
Fig. 6.1 AAI results for the European countries, the EU28
average and Biscay: 2012–2014 103
Fig. 6.2 Results by domain and sex in Biscay, EU28 average
and the country with the highest score: 2012–2014 104
Fig. 7.1 High-level domains to the European AFE initiative.
Derived from United Nations (2014) 122
Fig. 7.2 The overall SEE-IT process (Bond et al. 2015) 123
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x List of Figures
Fig. 8.1 Population pyramids of the Basque Country. 1996,
2014, 2029. Source: Compiled from data of Eustat.
Estadística Municipal de Habitantes a 1 de enero 2014.
Proyecciones demográficas en base 2014 a 1 de enero.
INE: INEBASE: Proyecciones de población 2009 141
Fig. 8.2 Items included in the Basque Country Active Ageing
Index by source 147
Fig. 8.3 Ranking in the Active Ageing Index of 28 countries of
the European Union and the Basque Country. Source:
Own elaboration based on: Population in Relation to
Activity survey (2013), Living Conditions Survey +55
(2014), Independent, healthy, and secure living: Survey
on Poverty and Social Inequalities (2014), Health Survey
of the Basque Country (2013), and Survey on the
Information Society-ESI-Families (2014) 147
Fig. 8.4 Comparison of the results of the Active Ageing Index
domains between the Basque Country, Spain, and
28 countries of the European Union (EU-28). Source:
Own elaboration based on: Population in Relation to
Activity survey (2013), Living Conditions Survey +55
(2014), Independent, healthy, and secure living: Survey
on Poverty and Social Inequalities (2014), Health Survey
of the Basque Country (2013), and Survey on the
Information Society-ESI-Families (2014) 148
Fig. 8.5 Ranking in the employment domain of the Active Ageing
Index of 28 countries of the European Union and the
Basque Country. Source: Own elaboration based on:
Eustat: Population in Relation to Activity survey (2013) 149
Fig. 8.6 Comparison of the results of the employment domain of
the Active Ageing Index between the Basque Country,
Spain, and 28 countries of the European Union (EU-28)
by age groups. Source: Own elaboration based on: Eustat:
Population in Relation to Activity survey (2013) 149
Fig. 8.7 Ranking in the participation in society domain of the
Active Ageing Index of 28 countries of the European
Union and the Basque Country. Source: Own elaboration
based on: Living Conditions Survey +55 (2014) 151