Sasha Scambler Author

Christina Victor is Professor in the School of Health and Social Care at the University of Reading, UK. She has edited two books for Open University Press; Critical Approaches to Ageing and Later Life (1997) and Researching Ageing and Later Life (2002).

Sasha Scambler is Lecturer in Sociology at Kings College London Dental Institute. Her interests include the sociology of chronic illness and disability, social theory and the sociology of later life.

John Bond is Professor of Social Gerontology and Health Services Research and Deputy Director of the Institute of Health and Society and a member of the Institute for Ageing and Health, based at Newcastle University, UK. He is co-author of Quality of Life and Older People (Open University Press, 2004).