Comparative contexts of health and care: findings from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe

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The articles in this special issue of the European Journal of Ageing are based upon papers that were first presented in a symposium held within the framework of the 63rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America in November, 2010, in New Orleans. The GSA’s annual meeting is one of the leading global venues for the presentation of cutting-edge gerontological research. The theme for the 2010 annual meeting—Transitions of Care: Across the Ageing Continuum—provided a singularly appropriate opportunity to organize the first GSA symposium to be based upon research papers drawn from the database of SHARE—The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. This was because the SHARE database includes a rich range of topics that uniquely allow for the examination of trends and associations in the realm of care for older people. The current issue of EJA is devoted to the papers that emanated from this symposium. …