title: Aging in france: population trends, policy issues, and research institutions.
abstract: Like in other advanced industrial countries, in France, demographic aging has become a widely debated research and policy topic. This article offers a brief overview of major aging-related trends in France. The article describes France's demographics of aging, explores key policy matters, maps the institutional field of French social gerontology research, and, finally, points to several emerging issues about aging. In France, these issues include active and healthy aging, the improvement of knowledge on specific vulnerable segments of the elderly population, and the adaptation of the urban landscape and infrastructure to an aging population. At the broadest level, one of the key points formulated in this article is that in France, aging research is dominated by the state, yet it is scattered and compartmentalized, posing a crucial challenge in an era dominated by European and other international networks and coordination efforts in aging policy and knowledge.
authors.affiliation: Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, 101 Diefenbaker Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 5B8. daniel.beland@usask.ca
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Béland
authors.forename: Jean-Philippe
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Viriot Durandal
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D005602:France; D005853:Geriatrics; D006291:Health Policy / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D011157:Population Dynamics / Q000639:trends*; D011640:Public Policy / Q000639:trends*; D012106:Research