Andrea Principi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3560309 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Principi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Principi |
| SIGNATURE | PRINCIPI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Istituto Nazionale di Riposo e Cura per Anziani |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3701-0539 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Interdisciplinarity and epistemic reflexivity. A methodological approach to the study of later-life transitions
Research on later-life transitions spans multiple disciplines, yet perspectives often remain fragmented. This paper demonstrates how interdisciplinarity, guided by epistemic reflexivity, can produce a more integrated understanding of later-life transitions. Drawing on a meta-narrative review, four research traditions – education, sociology, gerontology, and management – are examined to reconstruct discipline-specific storylines and generate a cro…
Labour market and retirement in Italy
Purpose Active ageing (AA) concerns the optimisation of opportunities for health, social participation and security of people as they age. Limited research exists on understanding the multilevel governance of AA policies, including those targeting the labour market and retirement. The aim of this study is to identify and analyse national and regional AA policies focused on paid-work and the retirement transition in Italy. Design/methodology/appro…
Identifying Active Aging Policy Objectives in Italian Regions
Background: In light of the main challenges recognized as being linked to the operationalization of the active aging concept at the policy level, the present study aimed to understand whether and to what extent Italian regional governments plan to deal with these challenges, i.e., implementing inter-sectoral and multilevel cooperation in a mainstreaming aging perspective; creating participatory processes by involving stakeholders in policymaking;…
Helping Behavior of Older Adults during the Early Covid-19 Lockdown in Belgium
This study aimed to understand whether older adults not only received but also provided help during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Belgium, which factors motivated them to help, and whether older adults differed from younger age groups in terms of helping behavior and motives. Bivariate analyses were performed using data generated from an online cross-sectional survey in Belgium ( N = 1892). The results showed that older adults who received help …
The Active Ageing Index and policy making in Italy
Although the active ageing concept generally has positive connotations, with expected benefits at the micro, meso and macro levels, the application of this concept in terms of policy making presents challenges and risks to be avoided (for instance, a predominantly productivist interpretation and a top-down imposition with limited possibilities for bottom-up exchanges; or a disregard for the risk of excluding older people with more disadvantaged b…
Active Ageing in Italy
In ageing societies, active ageing (AA) has been recognized as a useful conceptual tool due to its holistic approach to social issues and recognised benefits from it at multiple levels (micro, meso and macro) for addressing demographic challenges. However, one of the main problems identified in relation to AA, is to turn into practice, at the policy making level, the many positive aspects that it promises at the conceptual level, as is demonstrat…
Changes in Volunteering of Older Adults in the Time of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This paper elucidates the relationship between possible changes in volunteering experienced by older people during the COVID-19 pandemic, and their motivation to volunteer, as well as the direct or indirect experience of COVID-19 symptoms. Given the well-known positive benefits of volunteering in older age both for individuals (in terms of improved health and wellbeing) and society at large, there is a paucity of studies on older volunteers in th…
Active Ageing
While active ageing has emerged as a main strategy to address the challenges of population ageing in Europe, recent research has stressed the need to increase knowledge on within-country differences to promote active ageing through appropriate policy responses. This article draws on the Active Ageing Index (AAI) to capture recent trends in active ageing in Italy with a focus on sub-national diversity. To this end, we compute AAI breakdowns by reg…
Employees’ Longer Working Lives in Europe
This paper identifies, within companies' sectors of activity, predictors of Human Resource (HR) policies to extend working life (EWL) in light of increasing policy efforts at the European level to extend working life. Three types of EWL practices are investigated: the prevention of early retirement (i.e. encouraging employees to continue working until the legal retirement age); delay of retirement (i.e. encouraging employees to continue working b…
New Multilevel Partnerships and Policy Perspectives on Active Ageing in Italy
Active ageing (AA) policies aim to improve quality of life of older people by enabling better social participation and inclusion. Despite many international initiatives to promote AA undertaken in recent years, Italy did not systematically address this policy challenge until very recently. This paper presents the first national Plan-of-Action (PoA) (2019-2022) adopted by this country for supporting policy design and recommendation in this field. …
The Participation of Senior Citizens in Policy-Making
Worldwide, active aging policy calls for greater participation of senior citizens in the social, economic, and political realms. Despite emerging evidence of initiatives engaging senior citizens in social activities, little is known about the use of participatory approaches in the design and/or implementation of policies that matter to older citizens. This article identifies initiatives facilitating the civic participation of older people in poli…
Active Aging
Building on the active aging framework, the aim of this study, carried out between 2016 and 2018, is to analyze concrete experiences of older individuals acting as key players of social change in six local communities of five European countries (Bulgaria, Denmark, England, France, Spain). The 19 seniors involved in the study, according to social contexts, individual past experiences, knowledge, and motivations, acted as senior social entrepreneur…
Social Innovation in Long-Term Care
The debate on policies addressing the challenges posed by population ageing pays increasing attention to sustainable and innovative ways to tackle the multidimensional impact this phenomenon has on society and individuals. Moving from the findings of two European research projects, a qualitative study based on a rapid review of the literature, expert interviews, focus groups and case studies analysis has been carried out in Italy. This study illu…
Employment of Older People across Italian Regions
Retirement plans and active ageing
This study explores whether the plans of older workers on the cusp of retirement are in line with the active ageing agenda set by policy makers in Europe. The study was carried out in Italy, England, and the United States of America (USA). A total of 133 older workers who planned to retire within the next 10–12 months were interviewed (55 in England, 40 in Italy and 38 in the USA) between May 2014 and early 2015 using common semi-structured quest…
Active Ageing
Doris Bockermann and Frerich Frerichs sixOlder volunteers in England: towards greater flexibility 119 and inclusiveness?
Active ageing
PART I: REALISING VOLUNTEERING BY OLDER PEOPLE IN EUROPE: AN OVERARCHING APPROACH Introduction: enhancing volunteering in later life in Europe ~ Jensen, P.H. and Principi, A. Volunteering in older age: a conceptual and analytical framework ~ Jensen, P.H., Lamura, G. and Principi, A. PART II: OPPORTUNITIES AND RESTRICTIONS FOR OLDER VOLUNTEERS: NATIONAL EXPERIENCES Older volunteers in Italy: an underestimated phenomenon? ~ Principi, A., Chiatti, C…
Informal and formal reconciliation strategies of older peoples' working carers
Faced with a historically unprecedented process of demographic ageing, many European societies implemented pension reforms in recent years to extend working lives. Although aimed at rebalancing public pension systems, this approach has the unintended side effect that it also extends the number of years in which working carers have to juggle the conflicting demands of employment and caregiving. This not only impinges on working carers’ well-being …
Lo urbano-rural en la historiografía agraria rioplatense. Del final de la Colonia al inicio del sigloXIX
La demarcación historiográfica tradicional otorgó a la historia rural rioplatense, colonial y de inicios del siglo XIX, un campo de análisis disociado de la historia urbana, que llevó a explicar los procesos rurales a partir de la dualidad ciudad-campaña. Se reconstruye el recorrido historiográfico que permitió deconstruir esta mirada, a partir del estudio del área rural periurbana (un espacio productivo mercantil definido por sus múltiples relac…
Work restrictions experienced by midlife family care-givers of older people
This paper examines differences in work restrictions of midlife family carers of older people in terms of prevalence, gender and explanatory variables, in six European countries: Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Sweden and the United Kingdom. A sample of 2,897 carers aged 45–64 was extracted from the EUROFAMCARE (Services for Supporting Family Carers of Older People in Europe: Characteristics, Coverage and Usage) European project database, in orde…
Work restrictions experienced by midlife family care-givers of older people
This paper examines differences in work restrictions of midlife family carers of older people in terms of prevalence, gender and explanatory variables, in six European countries: Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Sweden and the United Kingdom. A sample of 2,897 carers aged 45–64 was extracted from the EUROFAMCARE (Services for Supporting Family Carers of Older People in Europe: Characteristics, Coverage and Usage) European project database, in orde…
Retirement plans and active ageing
This study explores whether the plans of older workers on the cusp of retirement are in line with the active ageing agenda set by policy makers in Europe. The study was carried out in Italy, England, and the United States of America (USA). A total of 133 older workers who planned to retire within the next 10–12 months were interviewed (55 in England, 40 in Italy and 38 in the USA) between May 2014 and early 2015 using common semi-structured quest…
The Active Ageing Index and policy making in Italy
Although the active ageing concept generally has positive connotations, with expected benefits at the micro, meso and macro levels, the application of this concept in terms of policy making presents challenges and risks to be avoided (for instance, a predominantly productivist interpretation and a top-down imposition with limited possibilities for bottom-up exchanges; or a disregard for the risk of excluding older people with more disadvantaged b…
Active Ageing
Doris Bockermann and Frerich Frerichs sixOlder volunteers in England: towards greater flexibility 119 and inclusiveness?
Active ageing
PART I: REALISING VOLUNTEERING BY OLDER PEOPLE IN EUROPE: AN OVERARCHING APPROACH Introduction: enhancing volunteering in later life in Europe ~ Jensen, P.H. and Principi, A. Volunteering in older age: a conceptual and analytical framework ~ Jensen, P.H., Lamura, G. and Principi, A. PART II: OPPORTUNITIES AND RESTRICTIONS FOR OLDER VOLUNTEERS: NATIONAL EXPERIENCES Older volunteers in Italy: an underestimated phenomenon? ~ Principi, A., Chiatti, C…
Informal and formal reconciliation strategies of older peoples' working carers
Faced with a historically unprecedented process of demographic ageing, many European societies implemented pension reforms in recent years to extend working lives. Although aimed at rebalancing public pension systems, this approach has the unintended side effect that it also extends the number of years in which working carers have to juggle the conflicting demands of employment and caregiving. This not only impinges on working carers’ well-being …
Lo urbano-rural en la historiografía agraria rioplatense. Del final de la Colonia al inicio del sigloXIX
La demarcación historiográfica tradicional otorgó a la historia rural rioplatense, colonial y de inicios del siglo XIX, un campo de análisis disociado de la historia urbana, que llevó a explicar los procesos rurales a partir de la dualidad ciudad-campaña. Se reconstruye el recorrido historiográfico que permitió deconstruir esta mirada, a partir del estudio del área rural periurbana (un espacio productivo mercantil definido por sus múltiples relac…
Work restrictions experienced by midlife family care-givers of older people
This paper examines differences in work restrictions of midlife family carers of older people in terms of prevalence, gender and explanatory variables, in six European countries: Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Sweden and the United Kingdom. A sample of 2,897 carers aged 45–64 was extracted from the EUROFAMCARE (Services for Supporting Family Carers of Older People in Europe: Characteristics, Coverage and Usage) European project database, in orde…
Retirement plans and active ageing
This study explores whether the plans of older workers on the cusp of retirement are in line with the active ageing agenda set by policy makers in Europe. The study was carried out in Italy, England, and the United States of America (USA). A total of 133 older workers who planned to retire within the next 10–12 months were interviewed (55 in England, 40 in Italy and 38 in the USA) between May 2014 and early 2015 using common semi-structured quest…
Employees’ Longer Working Lives in Europe
This paper identifies, within companies' sectors of activity, predictors of Human Resource (HR) policies to extend working life (EWL) in light of increasing policy efforts at the European level to extend working life. Three types of EWL practices are investigated: the prevention of early retirement (i.e. encouraging employees to continue working until the legal retirement age); delay of retirement (i.e. encouraging employees to continue working b…
New Multilevel Partnerships and Policy Perspectives on Active Ageing in Italy
Active ageing (AA) policies aim to improve quality of life of older people by enabling better social participation and inclusion. Despite many international initiatives to promote AA undertaken in recent years, Italy did not systematically address this policy challenge until very recently. This paper presents the first national Plan-of-Action (PoA) (2019-2022) adopted by this country for supporting policy design and recommendation in this field. …
The Participation of Senior Citizens in Policy-Making
Worldwide, active aging policy calls for greater participation of senior citizens in the social, economic, and political realms. Despite emerging evidence of initiatives engaging senior citizens in social activities, little is known about the use of participatory approaches in the design and/or implementation of policies that matter to older citizens. This article identifies initiatives facilitating the civic participation of older people in poli…
Active Aging
Building on the active aging framework, the aim of this study, carried out between 2016 and 2018, is to analyze concrete experiences of older individuals acting as key players of social change in six local communities of five European countries (Bulgaria, Denmark, England, France, Spain). The 19 seniors involved in the study, according to social contexts, individual past experiences, knowledge, and motivations, acted as senior social entrepreneur…
Social Innovation in Long-Term Care
The debate on policies addressing the challenges posed by population ageing pays increasing attention to sustainable and innovative ways to tackle the multidimensional impact this phenomenon has on society and individuals. Moving from the findings of two European research projects, a qualitative study based on a rapid review of the literature, expert interviews, focus groups and case studies analysis has been carried out in Italy. This study illu…
Employment of Older People across Italian Regions
Active Ageing
While active ageing has emerged as a main strategy to address the challenges of population ageing in Europe, recent research has stressed the need to increase knowledge on within-country differences to promote active ageing through appropriate policy responses. This article draws on the Active Ageing Index (AAI) to capture recent trends in active ageing in Italy with a focus on sub-national diversity. To this end, we compute AAI breakdowns by reg…
Active Ageing in Italy
In ageing societies, active ageing (AA) has been recognized as a useful conceptual tool due to its holistic approach to social issues and recognised benefits from it at multiple levels (micro, meso and macro) for addressing demographic challenges. However, one of the main problems identified in relation to AA, is to turn into practice, at the policy making level, the many positive aspects that it promises at the conceptual level, as is demonstrat…
Changes in Volunteering of Older Adults in the Time of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This paper elucidates the relationship between possible changes in volunteering experienced by older people during the COVID-19 pandemic, and their motivation to volunteer, as well as the direct or indirect experience of COVID-19 symptoms. Given the well-known positive benefits of volunteering in older age both for individuals (in terms of improved health and wellbeing) and society at large, there is a paucity of studies on older volunteers in th…
Helping Behavior of Older Adults during the Early Covid-19 Lockdown in Belgium
This study aimed to understand whether older adults not only received but also provided help during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Belgium, which factors motivated them to help, and whether older adults differed from younger age groups in terms of helping behavior and motives. Bivariate analyses were performed using data generated from an online cross-sectional survey in Belgium ( N = 1892). The results showed that older adults who received help …
The Active Ageing Index and policy making in Italy
Although the active ageing concept generally has positive connotations, with expected benefits at the micro, meso and macro levels, the application of this concept in terms of policy making presents challenges and risks to be avoided (for instance, a predominantly productivist interpretation and a top-down imposition with limited possibilities for bottom-up exchanges; or a disregard for the risk of excluding older people with more disadvantaged b…
Identifying Active Aging Policy Objectives in Italian Regions
Background: In light of the main challenges recognized as being linked to the operationalization of the active aging concept at the policy level, the present study aimed to understand whether and to what extent Italian regional governments plan to deal with these challenges, i.e., implementing inter-sectoral and multilevel cooperation in a mainstreaming aging perspective; creating participatory processes by involving stakeholders in policymaking;…
Interdisciplinarity and epistemic reflexivity. A methodological approach to the study of later-life transitions
Research on later-life transitions spans multiple disciplines, yet perspectives often remain fragmented. This paper demonstrates how interdisciplinarity, guided by epistemic reflexivity, can produce a more integrated understanding of later-life transitions. Drawing on a meta-narrative review, four research traditions – education, sociology, gerontology, and management – are examined to reconstruct discipline-specific storylines and generate a cro…
Labour market and retirement in Italy
Purpose Active ageing (AA) concerns the optimisation of opportunities for health, social participation and security of people as they age. Limited research exists on understanding the multilevel governance of AA policies, including those targeting the labour market and retirement. The aim of this study is to identify and analyse national and regional AA policies focused on paid-work and the retirement transition in Italy. Design/methodology/appro…
Medicine (13 works) · Older people (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Gerontology (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Active ageing (8 works) · Business (8 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works)