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Author : David G. Troyansky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X001585217
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010213986
Author : David Troyansky
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501746369
This book explores a dramatic change in French attitudes toward aging and the aged in the eighteenth century from one extreme of ridicule and neglect to another of respect and care.
Author : Paul Johnson,Pat Thane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134711246
Based on themes such as status and welfare, Old Age from Antiquity to Post-Modernity examines the role of the elderly in history. This empirical study represents a substantial contribution to both the historical understanding of old age in past societies as well as the discussion of the contribution of post-modernism to historical scholarship.
Author : Richard A. Posner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0226675688
Observing that people change both physically and cognitively as they age, Posner suggests that each of us has, in succession, two separate selves - younger and older - with different abilities, interests, and behaviors, an insight that helps clarify a number of issues concerning the elderly.
Author : Pat Thane
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191542176
At the end of the twentieth century more people are living into their seventies, eighties, nineties and beyond, a process expected to continue well into the next millennium. The twentieth century has achieved what people in other centuries only dreamed of: many can now expect to survive to old age in reasonably good health and can remain active and independent to the end, in contrast to the high death rate, ill health and destitution which affected all ages in the past. Yet this change is generally greeted not with triumph but with alarm. It is assumed that the longer people live, the longer they are ill and dependent, thus burdening a shrinking younger generation with the cost of pensions and health care. It is also widely believed that 'the past' saw few survivors into old age and these could be supported by their families without involving the taxpayer. In this first survey of old age throughout English history, these assumptions are challenged. Vivid pictures are given of the ways in which very large numbers of older people lived often vigorous and independent lives over many centuries. The book argues that old people have always been highly visible in English communities, and concludes that as people live longer due to the benefits of the rise in living standards, far from being 'burdens' they can be valuable contributors to their family and friends.
Author : Pat Thane
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114435105
Seven contributors examine how the best thinkers and artists of each historical epoch in the West have treated old age. Full of surprising and fascinating facts, this is an uplifting companion for those who, like it or not, are beginning to understand the inevitability of their own aging process.
Author : Jill Quadagno
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1988-02-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226699234
Why did the United States lag behind Germany, Britain, and Sweden in adopting a national plan for the elderly? When the Social Security Act was finally enacted in 1935, why did it depend on a class-based double standard? Why is old age welfare in the United States still less comprehensive than its European counterparts? In this sophisticated analytical chronicle of one hundred years of American welfare history, Jill Quadagno explores the curious birth of old age assistance in the United States. Grounded in historical research and informed by social science theory, the study reveals how public assistance grew from colonial-era poor laws, locally financed and administered, into a massive federal bureaucracy.
Author : Anne L. Alstott
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674545830
Changes in longevity, marriage, and the workplace have undermined Social Security, making the experience of old age increasingly unequal. Anne Alstott’s pragmatic, progressive revision would permit all Americans to retire between 62 and 76 but would provide generous early retirement benefits for workers with low wages or physically demanding jobs.
Author : Hyung Wook Park
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822981367
Between 1870 and 1940, life expectancy in the United States skyrocketed while the percentage of senior citizens age sixty-five and older more than doubled—a phenomenon owed largely to innovations in medicine and public health. At the same time, the Great Depression was a major tipping point for age discrimination and poverty in the West: seniors were living longer and retiring earlier, but without adequate means to support themselves and their families. The economic disaster of the 1930s alerted scientists, who were actively researching the processes of aging, to the profound social implications of their work—and by the end of the 1950s, the field of gerontology emerged. Old Age, New Science explores how a group of American and British life scientists contributed to gerontology’s development as a multidisciplinary field. It examines the foundational “biosocial visions” they shared, a byproduct of both their research and the social problems they encountered. Hyung Wook Park shows how these visions shaped popular discourses on aging, directly influenced the institutionalization of gerontology, and also reflected the class, gender, and race biases of their founders.
Author : Vincent Horn,Cornelia Schweppe,Anita Böcker,María Bruquetas-Callejo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811622373
This book focuses on the emerging global old age care industry developing as a response to tackle the “old age care crisis” in richer countries. In this global industry, multiple actors are involved in recruiting, skilling and placing migrant care workers in different spheres of the receiving country's old age care system. This book delves into the analysis of these actors and the multiple levels influencing their activities. Accordingly, it examines the significance of old age care regimes and policies as well as intermediaries and promoters for initiating, shaping and perpetuating old age care arrangements based on migrant labor and the relationships within them. Particular emphasis is placed on the risks and implications of these arrangements for the well-being and the social protection of the different actors involved. The book analyzes these processes and structures from a global perspective including different countries and regions of the world.
Author : Lady Catherine Charlotte Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : France
ISBN : UOM:39015011324558
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Labor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Old age pensions
ISBN : LOC:00117929905
Author : Steven Petrow
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780806541020
For fans of David Sedaris and Nora Ephron, here is a humorous, irreverent, and poignant look at the gifts, stereotypes, and inevitable challenges of aging, based on the wildly popular New York Times essay from award-winning journalist Steven Petrow. Soon after his 50th birthday, Steven Petrow began assembling a list of “things I won’t do when I get old”—mostly a catalog of all the things he thought his then 70-something year old parents were doing wrong. That list, which included “You won’t have to shout at me that I’m deaf,” and “I won’t blame the family dog for my incontinence,” became the basis of this rousing collection of do’s and don’ts, wills and won’ts that is equal parts hilarious, honest, and practical. The fact is, we don’t want to age the way previous generations did. “Old people” hoard. They bore relatives—and strangers—with tales of their aches and pains. They insist on driving long after they’ve become a danger to others (and themselves). They eat dinner at 4pm. They swear they don’t need a cane or walker (and guess what happens next). They never, ever apologize. But there is another way . . . In Stupid Things I Won’t Do When I Get Old, Petrow candidly addresses the fears, frustrations, and stereotypes that accompany aging. He offers a blueprint for the new old age, and an understanding that aging and illness are not the same. As he writes, “I meant the list to serve as a pointed reminder—to me—to make different choices when I eventually cross the threshold to ‘old.’” Getting older is a privilege. This essential guide reveals how to do it with grace, wisdom, humor, and hope. And without hoarding.
Author : Robert B. Hudson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Medicaid
ISBN : 0801880742
The successor to Robert Hudson's The Future of Age-Based Public Policy, this volume offers a variety of perspectives on these policy issues that directly effect America's aging population -- particularly the relative merits of using chronological age to determine eligibility for government programs.
