A draft of the relevant chapter for our future textbook is available on the web. It is incomplete at present, and in any case should be treated as highly provisional at this stage, though it is being updated steadily.

General

• Carrer, V., & Liddiaw, P. (Eds.) (1978), An ageing population.
• Keith, J. et al (1994), The ageing experience, Chap. 7: Political economy and age.

Some key topics

1. Retirement

• Kelly, J. R. (1997).  Activity and aging:  challenge in retirement.  In J. T. Haworth,  Work, leisure and well-being.  ........301.55HAW
• Parker, S. (1982), Work and retirement (sociological) .......301.4350942
• Sagy & Antonovsky (1992), The family sense of coherence and the retirement transition. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 54, 983-993.
• Robbins et al (1994). Goal continuity as a mediator of early retirement adjustment - testing a multidimensional model. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 41, 18-26. .......SEd
• Maule et al (1996). Early retirement decisions and how they affect later quality-of-life. Ageing and Society, 16, 177-204. ......P305 A25
•  The recipe for happy retired husbands

2. The elderly as workers

• Uhlenberg (1992), Population aging and social policy. Annual Review of Sociology, 18, 449-474
• Bytheway, B. (1995). Ageism
• Aquino et al (1996). Employment status, social support, and life satisfaction among the elderly. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 43, 480-489. .......SEd
• Birdi, K., Pennington, J., & Zapf, D. (1997).  Ageing and errors in computer-based work: An observational field study.  Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 70, 35-47.
• McIntosh & Danigelis (1995). Race, gender and the relevance of productive activity for elders' affect. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological and Social Sciences, 50, S229-S239. .....Box
• Okun & Eisenberg (1992). Motives and intent to continue organizational volunteering among residents of a retirement community area. Journal of Community Psychology, 20, 183-187. .......on order
• Meadows (1996). Discovering women's work: A study of post-retirement aged women Marriage and Family Review, 24, 165-191 (on order - will be put in Box when it arrives)
• Presser (1989). Some economic complexities of child-care provided by grandmothers. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 51, 581-591.
• Burman (1996). Intergenerational family care: Legacy of the past, implications for the future. Journal of Southern African Studies, 22, 585-598.

3. The elderly consumer

• Chattoe & Gilbert (undated). A Distributed Artificial Intelligence Simulation of Budgetary Decision Making : Summary of Findings. http://snipe.ukc.ac.uk/ESRC/chatrep.htm
• Langan & Means (1996). Financial management and elderly people with dementia in the UK - as much a question of confusion as abuse. Ageing and Society, 16, 287-314. .......P305 A25
• Tepper (1994), The role of labeling processes in elderly consumers' responses to age segmentation cues Journal of Consumer-Research 20 503-519 .......BJ
• Burnett (1991), Examining the media habits of the affluent elderly. Journal of Advertising Research, 31(5) 33-41
• Greco & Swayne (1992), Sales response of elderly consumers to point-of-purchase advertising. Journal of Advertising Research,32(5) 43-53
• Parker & Clarke (1995), Long-term care finance: A review of recent developments. Paper read at the ESRC Economic Beliefs and Behaviour programme conference, London, September.
• Sommer (1991), Consciences in the marketplace: The role of cooperatives in consumer protection. Journal of Social Issues 47, 135-148

4. The elderly as savers and investors

• Alessie, Lusardi & Kapteyn (1995). Saving and wealth holdings of the elderly. CentER discussion paper no. 9593 Box
• Ginn & Arber (1991). Gender, class and income inequalities in later life. British Journal of Sociology, 42, 369-396.
• Parker (undated). Attitudes and behaviour towards financial planning for care in old age: Summary of findings. http://snipe.ukc.ac.uk/ESRC/parkrep.htm
• Parker & Clarke (1997). Will you still need me? Will you still feed me? Attitudes towards long-term car., Social Policy and Administration, 31(2), 119-135.[an expanded version of the reference above; an earlier version is in the 1996 iarep conference proceedings] .......P305 S60
• Shi (1994) Elderly support in rural and suburban villages - implications for future support system in China. Social Science and Medicine, 39, 265-277. ......P305 S180
• Cordes (1990), Socio-economic perspectives on household saving behavior. Journal of Behavioral Economics, 19, 273-284 .......P150.5 J17a
• Menchik & David (1983), Income distribution, lifetime savings, and bequests. American Economic Review, 73, 672-690.
• Kuehlwein (1993), Life-cycle and altruistic theories of saving with lifetime uncertainty. Review of Economics and Statistics, 75, 38-47.
• Posner (1995).  The Economic Psychology of the Old. American Law and Economics Association Conference, Berkeley, May. Available on the world wide web at http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/ecolaw/alea/archive/posner.html......Box

Questions for discussion

1. What does the behaviour of people after retirement tell us about the psychology of work?
2. Are the elderly psychologically vulnerable to economic exploitation?
3. What is psychologically special about the markets for health and care?
4. Why do people save after retirement?

Stephen Lea, Paul Webley

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