Social Change and Aging in the Twentieth Century
Author : Daniel E. Alleger
Publisher :
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 10,35 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Old age assistance
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Author : Daniel E. Alleger
Publisher :
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 10,35 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Old age assistance
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Author : Daniel E. Alleger
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,80 MB
Release : 1964
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Author : Matilda White Riley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 1994-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
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"In society at large, lives have been drastically altered over this century--as a consequence of increased longevity, advances in science and education, the gender revolution, improvements in public health, and other historical trends and events--but numerous inflexible social structures, roles, and norms have lagged behind. There is a mismatch or imbalance between the transformation of the aging process from birth to death and the role opportunities or places in the social structure that could foster and reward people at the various stages of their lives. While the twentieth century has experienced a revolution in human development and aging, there has been no comparable revolution in the role structures of society to keep pace with the changes in the ways people grow up and grow old. The lag involves not only institutional and organizational arrangements, but also the many aspects of culture that, in addition to being internalized by people, are built into role expectations and societal mores and laws. For the future, then, structural changes will be needed if people are to find opportunities to spread leisure and work, as well as education, more evenly over the life course, and to make room for family affairs." --from Age and Structural Lag
Author : University of Florida. Institute of Gerontology
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Page : pages
File Size : 26,36 MB
Release : 1964
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Author : Chris Gilleard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 23,66 MB
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1317880153
For undergraduate courses in sociology and psychology which examine ageing adulthood. This book focuses on the dramatic changes to the nature of post-retirement life experienced by people at the end of the twentieth century. It examines age and ageing in terms of the key preoccupations of contemporary sociology - citizenship, the body and the self. The book provides a platform for a new social gerontology that sees ageing as central to our understanding of social change. It examines social, cultural and political changes in Europe and North America to address the need for a text that moves the study of ageing from social policy towards the mainstream of social science.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 12,87 MB
Release : 1988-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309038812
It is not news that each of us grows old. What is relatively new, however, is that the average age of the American population is increasing. More and better information is required to assess, plan for, and meet the needs of a graying population. The Aging Population in the Twenty-First Century examines social, economic, and demographic changes among the aged, as well as many health-related topics: health promotion and disease prevention; quality of life; health care system financing and use; and the quality of careâ€"especially long-term care. Recommendations for increasing and improving the data availableâ€"as well as for ensuring timely access to themâ€"are also included.
Author : Southern conference on gerontology (13°. 1964. Gainesville)
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Page : 114 pages
File Size : 26,59 MB
Release : 1964
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Author : John Wallis Rowe
Publisher : Random House Large Print Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,41 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Aging
ISBN : 9780375701795
Presents the results of the MacArthur Foundation Study of Aging in America, which show how to maintain optimum physical and mental strength throughout later life.
Author : Charlotte Greenhalgh
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 26,83 MB
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0520970802
As today’s baby boomers reach retirement and old age, this timely study looks back at the first generation who aged in the British welfare state. Using innovative research methods, Charlotte Greenhalgh sheds light on the experiences of elderly people in twentieth-century Britain. She adds further insights from the interviews and photographs of celebrated social scientists such as Peter Townsend, whose work helped transform care of the aged. A comprehensive and sensitive examination of the creative pursuits, family relations, work lives, health, and living conditions of the elderly, Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain charts the determined efforts of aging Britons to shape public understandings of old age in the modern era.
Author : David N. Weisstub
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 36,40 MB
Release : 2001-11-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1402001800
This is the first of three volumes on Aging conceived for the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Leading scholars from a range of disciplines contest some of the predominant paradigms on aging, and critically assess modern trends in social health policy.