Opening up the Debate on the Aging Society: Preliminary Hypotheses for a Possible Mutational and Post-mutationary Society

This book documents, verifies and brings to life the issues and debates that are created around the aging society. It carefully offers a series of opinions that attempt to illuminate the fact that the aging society goes beyond aging and includes a series of changes in terms of family, social ties, relationships, and the way human beings perceive society. The book contributes substantially to the discussion of this new type of aging, the new types of families, and the new types of relationships, as well as in the application of cutting-edge analytical strategies to understand the trends and patterns of these new modes of social structures.

The book includes detailed perspectives on how decisions need to be made, mindsets need to be changed, and precautions need to be taken to positively deal with these new realities. The evidence presented in this book suggests that if this does not happen, the danger of thanato-politics appears, which, denying reality, will lead humanity into difficult labyrinths, perhaps without any ＂Ariadne’s thread＂ that will allow a glimpse of the way out.

The translation from Spanish to English was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.

Dr. Alejandro Klein is a Research Professor at the Department of Governance & Development, Social Sciences and Humanities Faculty at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico, and Associate Professorial Fellow at The Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, UK. A trained psychologist, Dr Klein researches the socio-demographic issues facing the ageing populations of Latin America. He has a wealth of teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate levels including supervision of masters and doctoral degrees.