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The Longevity Dividend Satya Brink

The Longevity Dividend By Satya Brink

The Longevity Dividend by Satya Brink

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This book offers global evidence about the increasing longevity, its consequences and its potential for societal benefits. Choosing the right policies allows gaining the maximum benefits from the longevity dividend for current and future generations.

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The Longevity Dividend: Later Life, Lifelong Learning and Productive Societies by Satya Brink

This book offers global evidence about the increasing longevity, its consequences and its potential for societal benefits. Based on statistics, academic literature, policy initiatives and numerous country experiences, it explains the interconnected effects of a longer later life, lifelong learning and more productive societies. This larger picture shows how the future can be managed by making strategic choices today. Choosing the right policies allows gaining the maximum benefits from the longevity dividend for current and future generations. This book explains how investing in lifelong learning can enrich the longevity dividend. It gives valuable insights for policy advisors, decision makers, researchers, health professionals, practitioners, students of aging and late life educators.

About Satya Brink

Satya Brink is an internationally known researcher and policy advisor in the field of learning, both in its component parts and as a lifelong endeavour. Her doctorate degree is from Purdue University, USA. Her depth of expertise and breadth of experience contributes to her large picture global thinking. She was the Director of National Policy Research on Learning for the Canadian government, directing a team of analysts conducting policy research. In addition to her production of many internal analyses and government documents, she is the editor of one book and author of over a hundred publications, including journal articles, book chapters, research reports and policy briefs. As an international consultant she has worked for international organizations such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), World Bank, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL). She also advised governments in developed and developing countries, such as Finland, Ireland, Senegal and Egypt. She was an adjunct Professor of Gerontology at Simon Fraser University in Canada and is currently associated with the Lifelong Learning Institute ENCELL at Joenkoeping University in Sweden.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Life expectancy, learning in later life and the longevity dividend.- Chapter 2.- The evolution of the later years of life.- Chapter 3. Societal gains from a larger population share of older people.- Chapter 4. Long life learning.- Chapter 5. Characteristics of the older learner and learning in the later years.- Chapter 6. Understanding the longevity dividend.- Chapter 7. Societal choices enhance the longevity dividend.- Chapter 8. Lifelong learning system.- Chapter 9. Lifelong learning and the social compact.- Chapter 10. The longevity dividend and societal transformation.

Additional information

NPB9783031353345
9783031353345
303135334X
The Longevity Dividend: Later Life, Lifelong Learning and Productive Societies by Satya Brink
Satya Brink
International Perspectives on Aging
New
Hardback
Springer International Publishing AG
2023-08-15
218
N/A
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