Ageing and Welfare in Transition: Social, Legal, Economic, and Mobility Perspectives for an Inclusive Society

The volume advances an integrated argument for inclusion in aging societies, demonstrating that aging cannot be reduced to behavioral exhortation. Participation is stratified by available resources; autonomy is shaped by urban infrastructures; rights are mediated through digital systems that can both enable and exclude; and mobility depends on the alignment of infrastructure, technology, cost structures, and governance.
Three core themes run throughout: equity and stratification, infrastructure understood in a broad sense, and context-sensitive policies. The book’s distinctive contribution lies in combining quantitative, qualitative, legal, and systems-based approaches to translate inclusion into concrete governance and design requirements. Its central message is clear: inclusion will not emerge from invoking “active aging,” but from embedding it structurally within the institutions and infrastructures that organize participation, services, and mobility.

Carmine Clemente is Associate Professor of General and Health Sociology at the FOR.PSI.COM Department of the University of Bari A. Moro. A scholar of social health systems, he is the author of numerous national and international publications on the topic.

Letizia Carrera is Associate Professor of Territorial Sociology at the Department Dirium-Uniba) and Director of the Urban Studies Laboratory “Urbalab”. Her research interests include aging processes, political participation, gender studies, urban policies, new tourism models, urban exploration.

Claudia Morgana Cascione is Associate Professor of Private Comparative Law at the Department of Law of the University of Bari Aldo Moro. Her researches focus on the protection of fundamental rights of vulnerable persons, on the law of new technologies, from a comparative perspective.

Elisabetta Venezia is a lecturer and researcher in Applied Economics at the University of Bari Aldo Moro. She teaches Transport and Mobility Economics. Her research focuses on sustainable mobility, cost–benefitanalysis, equity and travel behaviour.