Numhauser-Henning, Ann --- "Introduction" [2017] ELECD 479; in Numhauser-Henning, Ann (ed), "Elder Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 3

Book Title: Elder Law

Editor(s): Numhauser-Henning, Ann

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781785369087

Section: Chapter 1

Section Title: Introduction

Author(s): Numhauser-Henning, Ann

Number of pages: 30

Abstract/Description:

This introductory chapter provides a brief background on ageing society in an EU policy development perspective and introduces the studies on law and ageing within the Norma Research Programme. It then thematizes the interrelations between the different contributions to this book and relates them more generally to a variety of relevant concepts and perspectives, among them ageing and ageism. Legal developments are also elaborated upon in the terms of normative patterns, and particularly in terms of the progress of the market functional pattern identified in a number of the reported studies. Ageing, ageism, the Norma Research Programme, normative patterns, market functional