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Alan Walker is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a significant concentration in subfields such as demography, sociology and political science, general health professions, health, and political science and international relations.

The main topics covered in Alan Walker's work include:

  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
  • Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Retirement, Disability, and Employment
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Healthcare innovation and challenges
  • Global Health Care Issues

Alan Walker has contributed articles to various publication venues with frequent appearances in:

  • Rapporter från Åldrande och social förändring
  • European Journal of Ageing
  • BioMed Research International
  • Health & Social Care in the Community
  • Asian Population Studies

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Alan Walker include:

  • "Understanding unequal ageing: towards a synthesis of intersectionality and life course analyses," 2020, European Journal of Ageing
  • "Active Ageing across the Life Course: Towards a Comprehensive Approach to Prevention," 2021, BioMed Research International
  • "The impact of community care services on the preference for ageing in place in urban China," 2020, Health & Social Care in the Community
  • "Why China needs an active social policy on ageing," 2021, Asian Population Studies
  • "The Chinese System of Community Care for Older Adults," 2022, Journal of Gerontological Nursing

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Alan Walker include:

  • Liam Foster
  • Junshan Zhou
  • Huoyun Zhu
  • Gerhard Naegele
  • Chang Lyul Jung

Best Publications

  • A strategy for active ageing

    Alan Walker

  • Active and Successful Aging: A European Policy Perspective

    Liam Foster;Alan Walker

  • Britain divided : the growth of social exclusion in the 1980s and 1990s

    Alan Walker;Carol Walker

  • Active ageing: A strategic policy solution to demographic ageing in the European Union

    Alan Walker;Tony Maltby;Tony Maltby

  • The Caring Relationship: Elderly People and their Families

    Hazel Qureshi;Alan Walker

  • Towards a Political Economy of Old Age

    Alan Walker

  • Employers and older workers: attitudes and employment practices

    Philip Taylor;Alan Walker

  • The social quality of Europe

    Wolfgang Beck;Laurent van der Maesen;Alan Walker

  • The Ageing Workforce: Employers' Attitudes towards Older People

    Philip E. Taylor;Alan Walker

  • The Social Creation of Poverty and Dependency in Old Age

    Alan Walker

  • Commentary: The Emergence and Application of Active Aging in Europe

    Alan Walker

  • Social Quality: A Vision for Europe

    W. Beck;L.J.G. van der Maesen;G.C.F. Thomese;A. Walker

  • Active ageing in employment: Its meaning and potential

    Alan Walker

  • A European perspective on quality of life in old age

    Alan Walker

  • The new generational contract : intergenerational relations, old age and welfare

    Alan Walker

  • East Asian welfare regimes in transition: From Confucianism to globalisation

    Alan Walker;Chack-kie Wong

  • Ageing and Social Policy: A Critical Assessment

    Chris Phillipson;Alan Walker

  • Policies and practices towards older workers: a framework for comparative research

    Philip Taylor;Alan Walker

  • Understanding unequal ageing: towards a synthesis of intersectionality and life course analyses

    Daniel Holman;Alan Walker

  • Community care : the family, the state, and social policy

    Alan Walker

  • The caring relationship

    Hazel Qureshi;Alan Walker

  • Growing Older: Quality Of Life In Old Age

    Catherine Hagan Hennessy;Catherine Walker;Alan Walker

  • Age and Employment

    Alan Walker

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Phillipson
Chris Phillipson University of Manchester
Hans-Werner Wahl
Hans-Werner Wahl Heidelberg University
Thomas B. L. Kirkwood
Thomas B. L. Kirkwood Newcastle University
Victor W. Marshall
Victor W. Marshall University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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