This handbook provides a comprehensive look into the emerging issues confronting ageing societies across the world. Drawing on scholarship from Africa, the Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe, it explores different dimensions of ageing, gender, health, environment, care, elder abuse, generational relationships, and grief. From the Contents: 34. Technology-enhanced dementia education programs in the Japanese community (Hiroshige Matsumoto, Ayumi Igarashi, Haruno Suzuki, Noriko Yamamoto-Mitani); 35. Population Aging, Depopulation and the Workforce Shortage Crisis in Japan: An Overview Of 9 Reversal Strategies and a Paradigm for a Policy and Research Agenda (Cullen T. Hayashida, Takeo Ogawa, Hiroo Ueda, Naomi Yamamoto, Yumi Kamoshida, Yuko Nakamura, Francis I. Nakamura, Garmaa Gantula).