进入90年代以来,全球人口老龄化的加剧推动着国际老龄研究继续全面发展,老年学研究成果对社会经济政策的影响也在日益加大。老年学的各个分支学科都取得了许多新研究成果,出版了一批新的学术著作,一些新的分析技术开始在老年学研究中应用,老年学现在已经真正成了一个多学科的研究领域。以下着重介绍老龄社会科学的进展情况。 1 老龄研究的进展 全世界开展老龄研究的国家正在迅速增加,社会科学对老龄问题的研究已经在许多国家开展起来。近年来,美国、德国、意大利、荷兰、日本,包括中国都有国家级的研究项目对老龄问题进行深入研究。特别值得注意的是,老龄研究在发展中国家正在迅速增加,尤其是在东亚和东南亚国家以及拉丁美洲国家发展很快;这些国家都是人口转变较快的发展中国家,在生育率下降到低水平后,人口老龄化与老龄问题已经成为影响社会经济持续发展的重要问题。 Since the 1990s, the global aging population has pushed the international aging research to continue to develop in an all-round way. The research results of geriatrics have also exerted greater influence on social and economic policies. A great many new achievements have been made in all branches of gerontology. A number of new academic works have been published. Some new analytical techniques have started to be applied in the study of gerontology. Gerontology has now truly become a multidisciplinary field of research. The following focuses on the progress of social sciences in old age. 1 Progress in aging research The number of countries conducting research on aging in the world is rapidly increasing. Research in the social sciences on aging has been carried out in many countries. In recent years, the United States, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, including China all have national-level research projects to conduct an in-depth study on aging. It is particularly noteworthy that aging research is rapidly increasing in developing countries, especially in East and South-East Asia countries as well as in Latin America; all of these countries are developing countries with rapidly changing demographics, with their fertility rate declining to low After the level of population aging and aging issues have become an important issue affecting the sustainable social and economic development.