This fortieth volume of Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics focuses on economic inequality in later life. Cutting-edge chapters discuss the complex factors that can lead to advancing our understanding of economic inequalities. The volume includes perspectives on the changing pathways in later life, retirement income and security, race and associated advantages and disadvantages, and social rights for the elderly. The contributions in this volume discuss state-of-the-art research and keen insights into this increasingly important topic.Key Topics: Reconstructing Work and Retirement: Changing Pathways and Inequalities in Late Life Neoliberalism and the Future of Retirement Security Families in Later Life: A Consequence and Engine of Social Inequalities Increasing Risks, Costs, and Retirement Income Inequality Intentionality, Power, and Systemic Processes: Race and the Study of Cumulative Dis/Advantage Social Rights of the Elderly as Part of the New Human Rights Agenda: Non-contributory Pensions in Civil Society in Mexico
Jessica A. Kelley, PhD, is professor and director of the graduate program, Department of Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Kelley studies the causes and consequences of health disparities over the life course, particularly those related to race, socioeconomic status, and disability. She has expertise in the quantitative analysis of longitudinal and panel data, including latent trajectories and multilevel modeling. Her recent research has focused on: life course influences on later-life functional disparities among Black and White adults; how cohort trends and social change affect later-life health profiles; social influences on the experience of disability; neighborhoods and social exclusion of older adults.Dr. Kelley currently serves as co-editor (with Dr. Roland J. Thorpe, Jr., of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health) of the series Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics. She is also Associate Editor of Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences and serves on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Aging and Health, Research on Aging, and Journal of Aging and Social Policy. Jessica currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Resource Center for Minority Data at ICPSR. She also recently completed terms as Chair of the Section on Aging and the Life Course in the American Sociological Association and Member-at-Large for the Behavioral and Social Sciences section of the Gerontological Society of America.
