Book Description
Scholars, students, and policymakers will appreciate the volume's timely overview of the evolution of aging policy.
Author : Robert B. Hudson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 1421414872
Scholars, students, and policymakers will appreciate the volume's timely overview of the evolution of aging policy.
Author : A. Goerres
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 24,80 MB
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230233953
The first comparative analysis of the political behaviour of older people, using evidence from 20+ European democracies. In contrast to younger people across European societies, older people do not behave uniformly. For political participation in later life, it matters where and when individuals have grown up and in which country they become old.
Author : Jill Quadagno
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,74 MB
Release : 1988-02-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226699233
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 : John B. Williamson
Publisher : Charles C. Thomas Publisher
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : Hanna Falk Erhag
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 20,98 MB
Release : 2022-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030780635
This open access book provides insight on how to interpret capability in ageing – one’s individual ability to perform actions in order to reach goals one has reason to value – from a multidisciplinary approach. With for the first time in history there being more people in the world aged 60 years and over than there are children below the age of 5, the book describes this demographic trends as well as the large global challenges and important societal implications this will have such as a worldwide increase in the number of persons affected with dementia, and in the ratio of retired persons to those still in the labor market. Through contributions from many different research areas, it discussed how capability depends on interactions between the individual (e.g. health, genetics, personality, intellectual capacity), environment (e.g. family, friends, home, work place), and society (e.g. political decisions, ageism, historical period). The final chapter summarizes the differences and similarities in these contributions. As such this book provides an interesting read for students, teachers and researchers at different levels and from different fields interested in capability and multidisciplinary research.
Author : William P. Browne
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 16,20 MB
Release : 1983-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : James H. Schulz
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 37,5 MB
Release : 2008-05-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0801888646
Schulz and Robert H.
Author : Frank A. Pinner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 11,86 MB
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0520372743
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959.
Author : Phillip Longman
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,13 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780395383698
Author : Alan Walker
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,8 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN :
This collection of essays by leading authorities examines the new politics of old age from the perspectives of individual countries and the European Union as a whole.