Ageing with Care: Aiming for Equity and Inclusion

This chapter argues that age equity and decent care work must be key considerations in imagining a truly age-friendly world. First, it outlines the assumptions underlying the book’s concept of ‘age equity with care’. Second, it describes the collaborative research project to identify age-equitable policies and practices that has stimulated the development of this concept, undertaken by a team of international, interdisciplinary scholars at all career stages. Finally, this chapter provides an overview of the book, showing that advancing age equity requires attention to the diversity within older populations and among care workers, analysis of the political economy of ageing and care work and its variations, and efforts to combat and undo many forms of oppression and domination, including in policies, data, practices and social life.

Tamara Daly and Susan Braedley (2025) Ageing with care: aiming for equity and inclusion, in Ageing Equitably with Care Power, Policy, Practice, Bristol University Press.