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The review aims to critique the challenges faced by health and social care systems for the elderly due to economic policies.

March 15, 2026SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología0 citationsOpen Access

Book Review: Ageing and the Crisis in Health and Social Care

RARicardo A. Ayala

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The review aims to critique the challenges faced by health and social care systems for the elderly due to economic policies.
Theoretical analysis based on secondary data
Critical review of existing policies and research
Examination of global and national perspectives on aging
Highlights the erosion of care systems under neoliberalism and austerity
Connects structural forces to daily experiences of older individuals
Demonstrates intensifying precarity for both service users and care workers

Abstract

As concerns about the future of elderly care mount, Ageing and the Crisis in Health and Social Care offers a timely and incisive critique of the emerging crisis in care systems.In her book, anthropologist Bethany Simmonds addresses how neoliberalism, austerity policies, and global economic trends have eroded health and social care for older populations, deepening precarity for both service users and workers.Simmonds' work provides a theoretical analysis based on secondary data.This book does not present original ethnographic work but critically reviews existing research, policies and global/national perspectives on aging.In particular, it connects everyday experiences of aging and care with broader shifts in academic research by showing how structural forces shape the daily realities of older people and carers across their course of life.

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