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Publication date: 27 May 2021

Nolwenn Bühler

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When Reproduction Meets Ageing
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ISBN: 978-1-83909-747-8

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Publication date: 1 November 2006

Ina Fourie

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Online Information Review, vol. 30 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1468-4527

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Publication date: 1 September 2006

Stuart Hannabuss

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 62 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0022-0418

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Publication date: 27 May 2021

Nolwenn Bühler

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When Reproduction Meets Ageing
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ISBN: 978-1-83909-747-8

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Publication date: 24 October 2022

Alex Hall, Gemma Spiers and Barbara Hanratty

A narrative has developed in recent years to link ageing without children to support needs in later life. Social care has long been viewed as a private, familial responsibility…

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A narrative has developed in recent years to link ageing without children to support needs in later life. Social care has long been viewed as a private, familial responsibility, whilst health care is a societal, public good. Childlessness is framed negatively in terms of increased demands on care services and wider family networks. As governments tackle the issue of how to fund and deliver an equitable and sustainable long-term care sector, this paper aims to argue that it is more critical than ever to evaluate views of childlessness in the context of ageing.

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Policy-oriented commentary paper.

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If the focus on childlessness and ageing is through a lens of a potential care deficit, this continues to frame ageing without children as a risk and does little to challenge increasing reliance on unpaid care. Research and policy need to explore how to make access to social care more equitable and reduce expectations of unpaid care. They also need to increasingly emphasise exploration of aspects of later life beyond the issue of care, for example, by more of a focus on communities, what matters to people to age well and lives that extend beyond traditional views of nuclear families.

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This paper uses the UK as a contextual example to argue that the research and policy communities have a role to play in evaluating their constructions of childlessness and ageing and questioning whether they do little more than legitimise government’s unwillingness to take responsibility for social care.

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Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, vol. 23 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1471-7794

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Publication date: 27 May 2021

Nolwenn Bühler

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When Reproduction Meets Ageing
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ISBN: 978-1-83909-747-8

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Publication date: 5 September 2019

Kylie Baldwin

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Egg Freezing, Fertility and Reproductive Choice
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ISBN: 978-1-78756-483-1

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Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, vol. 20 no. 4
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ISSN: 1471-7794

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Publication date: 29 November 2021

Outi Sarpila, Iida Kukkonen, Tero Pajunen and Erica Åberg

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Appearance as Capital
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ISBN: 978-1-80043-711-1

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Publication date: 15 September 2022

Victoria Boydell and Katharine Dow

Here we provide a short reflection on the persistent themes from the volume and relate it to wider reproductive studies.

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Here we provide a short reflection on the persistent themes from the volume and relate it to wider reproductive studies.

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Technologies of Reproduction Across the Lifecourse
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ISBN: 978-1-80071-733-6

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