GERTRUD M BACKES is Professor/Director for Ageing and Society at Vechta University, Germany INGRID EYERS is Lecturer of Health and Social Care in the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Surrey, UK UWE FACHINGER is Professor of Economics and Demography at the Institute for Gerontology at University Vechta, Germany FRERICH FRERICHS is Professor for Ageing and Work at the Institute of Gerontology, University of Vechta, Germany VERA GERLING is a freelance social-gerontologist for GER-ON, Consult& Research in Dortmund, Germany JAY GINN is Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey, UK CAROLINE GLENDINNING is Professor of Social Policy and Assistant Director of the Social Policy Research Unit at the University of York, UK TOBIAS GROSS is Research Fellow at the European Policies Research Centre (EPRC), University of Strathclyde, UK JOSEPG HILBERT is Privatdozent at the Medical Faculty of the Ruhr Bochum; Research Fellow at the Institute for Work and Technology University of Applied Sciences Gelsenkirchen and head of research department 'Health Industries and Quality of Life'. GERHARD IGL is Professor of Social Security Law at the University of Kiel, Germany and Director of the Institute of Social Security Law and Social Policy in Europe TONY MALTBY is CROW Research Fellow and Deputy Director at the Centre for Research into the Older Workforce at the National Institute for Adult Continuing Education (England and Wales) based in Leicester, UK GERHARD NAEGELE is a Professor of Social Gerontology and Direcor of the Institute of Gerontology at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany JUDITH PHILLIPS is Professor of Gerontology and Social Work at Swansea University and director of the Older People and Ageing Research and Development Network (OPAN Cymru) in Wales, UK WOLFGANG POTRATZ is Research Fellow at the Institute for Work and Technology, University of Applied Sciences, Gelsenkirchen, Germany MONIKA REICHERT is Professor for Social Gerontology at the University of Dortmund, Germany CHRISTIANE ROHLEDER is Professor of Sociology at the Kath, Germany PHILIP TAYLOR is Professor of Employment Policy in the Faculty of Business and Enterprise, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia WINFRIED SCHMÄHL was Professor of Economics and Director of the Department of Economics, Centre for Social Policy Research, University of Bremen, Germany until July 2007 ALAN WALKER is Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology at the University of Sheffield, UK. He currently directs the UK New Dynamics of Ageing Programme and the European Research Area in Ageing