Patricia Edgar
Auteur van Janet Holmes a Court
Werken van Patricia Edgar
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Algemene kennis
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Dromkeen Medal (2007)
Leden
Besprekingen
Statistieken
- Werken
- 10
- Leden
- 66
- Populariteit
- #259,059
- Waardering
- 2.4
- Besprekingen
- 1
- ISBNs
- 18
Both in their eighties and living active, satisfying lives, husband-and-wife authors Patricia Edgar and Don Edgar argue in Peak, Reinventing Middle Age that it’s not just a matter of semantics. They say that this shift in demographics has created a challenge for policy makers; for welfare and taxation regimes; and for attitudes to education and employment. They suggest that increased longevity means that all of us as individuals need to rethink our responsibility for looking after ourselves beyond our fifties and sixties. We need to rejig our ideas about our contributions to society, our needs and our expectations because – apart from anything else, if we don’t, we may outlive our financial resources. But the Edgars reject the idea that an older Australia means a dependency problem, and they also reject the prevalent media preoccupation with inter-generational conflict. (The argument, for example, that youth unemployment is exacerbated by older people ‘hanging onto’ their jobs, or that housing affordability could be improved if the oldies all downsized or got out of the capital cities with a sea- or a tree-change). They make a compelling case for the need to start a national conversation about these issues of middle age as a matter of urgency.
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