Accelerated population ageing is a global trend.It has long been a significant issue for developed countries,and it is now becoming one in the developing world.The well-bieng and quality of life of older people are strongly conditioned by their capacity to manage opportunities and risks assocaited with rapid and complex change.Social protection ,both formal and informal,can play a key role in mediating these processes.Living Longer examines relationships between the well-being of older people and processes of evelopment,taking examples from a diverse range of low-,middle-and high-income countries.A key message is the danger of generalisation:either about later life or development experiences.Older people are an extremely heterogeneous group,with varying needs,capabilities and expectations. The book is divided into three sections.The first explores the well-being of older people in different contexts of development,examining the experiences of the UK,Brazil,Ukraine and China.The second section focuses on formal social protection for older people,mincluding health policy,pension programmes and long-term care provision.Th ethird section considers informal social protection and the care economy.This is explored with reference to inter-generational relationships,the impact of HIV/AIDS on older people,and a wider philosophical discussion of care and social justice. The authors highlight the complexity of relationships between development and experience of later life.They identify key priorities for policy-makers,and map out an urgent research agenda.