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New Evidence on Active Ageing in Europe

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Ensuring active ageing, i.e. the optimisation of opportunities for health, participation and security in order to enhance quality of life as people age, is an important growth strategy for the EU. Achieving a successful active ageing policy will require a sea change in thinking about what ageing means in both economic and social terms.

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  1. Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, Elmfield, Northumberland Road, S10 2TU, Sheffield, UK

    Alan Walker

  2. Reception Building 58, Office 4108, University of Southampton, University Road, SO17 1BJ, Southampton, UK

    Asghar Zaidi

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Walker, A., Zaidi, A. New Evidence on Active Ageing in Europe. Intereconomics 51, 139–144 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-016-0592-0

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