JASON DANELY is a Reader in Anthropology and Chair of the Healthy Ageing & Care Research Innovation and Knowledge Exchange Network at Oxford Brookes University. His research expertise relates to cultural understandings and experiences of ageing and care in Japan. Danely completed his PhD in anthropology at the University of California, San Diego and held teaching posts at Rhode Island College and Grand Valley State University and postdoctoral fellowships at The Center on Age and Community (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Kyoto University). Danely is currently the Chair of the WAU/IUAES Scientific Commission on Aging and the Life Course.