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Healthy Aging in Sociocultural Contextexamines two emerging trends facing countries throughout the world: population aging and population naversity. It makes a unique contribution to our understanding of these timely issues by examining their implications for healthy aging, a topic of increasing importance to policy-makers, planners, researchers, families, and innaviduals of all ages. The book focuses on three countries that provide important examples of these emerging global trends – Japan, Sweden, and the United States. Japan and Sweden are at the forefront in terms of healthy life expectancies, while the United States represents a country with considerable naversity. Examining these three countries together provides a unique opportunity to address questions such as the following: How can we understand differences in healthy life expectancy among different countries? What role might naversity play? And how might these effects change as geographic mobility increases naversity, even among societies that historically have been relatively homogeneous?