CIVIC ENGAGEMENT IN LATER LIFE

This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary perspective on older adults' civic engagement. It proposes a conceptual framework which understands civic engagement to be a multidimensional concept that encompasses the diverse activities through which older people contribute to their communities.

Sandra Torres is a Professor of Sociology and the Chair in Social Gerontology at Uppsala University, Sweden whose scholarly contributions often aim to expand the gerontological imagination on ethnicity, race and migration.

Dr. Kieran Walsh is Senior Research Fellow at Project Lifecourse and Deputy Director of the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, National University of Ireland Galway.

Rodrigo Serrat is Associate Professor at the Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology of the University of Barcelona.