Active Ageing and Demographic Change

Siniša Zrinščak is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy in the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia. He was previously Head of the Department of Social Work of the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb (2007-2011), and Editor-in-Chief of the Croatian Journal of Social Policy (2002-2009). Susan Lawrence is President of the European Association of Schools of Social Work, Regional Vice President of the International Association of Schools of Social Work, and until 2013 was Head of Social Work at London Metropolitan University, UK. She qualified as a social worker in 1976 and has been a social work academic since 1991.

Introduction 1. Look after yourself: active ageing, individual responsibility and the decline of social work with older people in the UK 2. Social work and intervention with older people in Portugal: a critical point of view 3. Social policy, social work and age care in Nepal: mapping services and missing links 4. Austerity, personalisation and older people: the prospects for creative social work practice in England 5. Care workers in long-term care for older people: challenges of quantity and quality 6. Framing of intimate care in home care services 7. Social counselling for older people – between advice and therapy 8. Critical educational gerontology: what has it got to offer social work with older people?