Money and Finance in Later Life

Hayley James

doi:10.4324/9781003292227-7

Money and Finance in Later Life

Hayley James

Centre for Personal Financial Wellbeing

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In many countries, the context of financialisation means that financial tools, markets and institutions are increasingly influential across social, political and economic landscapes. As a consequence, individuals are cast as ‘everyday investors’, who actively manage income and wealth in order to provide for later life, creating new social and cultural norms and expectations over the life course. This chapter examines the ways in which people approaching and during later life deal with money and finance, drawing primarily on data from the UK where financialisation is advanced, to understand how this impacts the experiences of these life stages and assess what this means for societal inequalities more broadly.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology
Editors	Julia Twigg, Wendy Martin
Chapter	6
Pages	56-63
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781003292227
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003292227-7
Publication status	Published - 30 Jan 2026

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This is the author's version of the chapter "Money and Finance in Later Life", published in eds. J. Twigg & W. Martin Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology, 2nd edition. This version is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.

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