Call for paper – Ageing: Between Science and Politics

Ageing is often limited to a biological process only. Conference Objectives Since the mid-twentieth century, the ageing population has gradually become a major challenge in the industrialised countries for both politics and research. For long, interest in these topics has been sustained by the evolution of the age pyramid, ‘alarmist demography’ (Katz, 1992) along with the fear of a ‘decline’ in population. On the one hand, ageing has become a specialisation in many disciplines: medicine, soci..