Productive Engagement in Later Life

Dr. Nancy Morrow-Howell is Ralph and Muriel Pumphrey Professor of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. She is a national leader in gerontology, widely known for her work on productive and civic engagement of older adults. Dr. Morrow-Howell is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, chair-elect of the SRPP section of GSA, and a member of GSA’s Expert Workgroup on Civic Engagement in an Older America.　She is on the Editorial Board of both The Gerontologist and the Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences. Dr. Ada C. Mui is a Professor of Social Work at the Columbia University School of Social Work, USA. She has been recognized as one of the leading social gerontologists in cross-cultural research. She is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and an Honorary Professor at Beijing Normal University, Beijing Youth Politics College, and the University of Hong Kong, China. In Taiwan, she is a Research Fellow at the Social Policy Research Center at the National Taiwan University.

Foreword: Productive ageing is likely to become a major policy discussion in China
Michael Sherraden Introduction: Cross-cultural, multidisciplinary perspectives on maximizing productive engagement of the ageing population Nancy Morrow-Howell and Ada C. Mui Part I: Overview of the concept of productive ageing in China 1. Productive ageing in China: a human capital perspective Ada C. Mui 2. What is productive in Taiwanese centenarians’ lives? A challenge for the definition of productive ageing Peishan Yang Part II: Country-level consideration of productive engagement of older adults 3. China’s population ageing and active ageing Peng Du and Hui Yang 4. Productive engagement of older Americans Nancy Morrow-Howell and Jennifer C. Greenfield 5. Productive ageing in Japan Li-Mei Chen Uesugi 6. Dominant and competing framings of the productive ageing agenda in the Australian policy context Elizabeth Ozanne Part III: Consideration of productive activities in various countries a. Caregiving 7. Survey and reflection on the current situation of older caregivers in Jinan Qun Liu and Wen-Guang Ke 8. Critical review of older adults’ caregiving-related programs and policies in South Korea Song-Lee Hong and Ene-Young Park 9. Older adults as caregivers in Hong Kong Teresa B.K. Tsien and Guat Tin Ng b. Working 10. Workforce participation among older adults in China: current knowledge and future research directions Rita Jing-Ann Chou 11. Population ageing in a globalizing labour market: implications for older workers Brad Jorgensen, Philip Taylor and Erin Watson c. Volunteering 12. Senior volunteer service in urban communities: a study in Jinan Qin Li 13. Volunteering by older adults in the United States Fengyuan Tang 14. Volunteering as a productive ageing activity: evidence from Australia Jeni Warburton 15. Promoting volunteerism in later life in Hong Kong Alice Ming-lin Chong