ABSTRACT
Population ageing is projected to affect all countries across the world in coming decades. Many governments and economic forecasters consider population ageing to be a demographic crisis, likening the scale of predicted socio-economic outcomes to those of the 2008 global financial crisis. Popular commentary on population ageing usually considers the demographic change to be spatially homogenous and the social and economic behaviours of older populations to also be homogenous. In this book we challenged these notions. We argued that population ageing is not spatially homogenous, and neither are the impacts of population ageing. This unevenness, we argued, is caused by spatial unevenness in the underlying social processes and practices that influence population change.
