Critical issues in aging policy : linking research and values

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Critical issues in aging policy : linking research and values

edited by Edgar F. Borgatta, Rhonda J.V. Montgomery

(Sage focus editions, v. 86)

Sage Publications, c1987

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  • : pbk

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Description

Giving a comprehensive overview of the discipline, this book is designed as a supplementary text for students of social gerontology and ageing policy. Highlighting policy implications, specialists consider issues such as: long term care; ways of measuring well-being; social relationships of the elderly; attitudes to retirement; health and crime. @ 'the book does a good job in prompting deeper consideration of day-to-day issues about elderly people and points up many unexplored areas worthy of research.......This is a useful book, combining much of general interst for staff working with older people with clear and important messages for its target audience of researchers and policy theorists' @ GPS 3:2

Table of Contents

Aging Policy and Societal Values - Edgar F Borgatta and Rhonda J V Montgomery Demography - Susan de Vos A Source of Knowledge for Gerontology Conceptualization and Measurement of Well-Being - Donald E Stull Implications for Policy Evaluation The Social Relationships of Older People - M Powell Lawton and Miriam Mass Research on Men's and Women's Retirement Attitudes - Laurie Russell Hatch Implications for Retirement Policy Dependency, Family Extension and Long-Term Care Policy - Laurie Russell Hatch et al Values, Perceptions and Choice in Living Arrangements of the Elderly - Andrew V Wister and Thomas K Burch Senior Center Research - Penny A Ralston Policy from Knowledge? Values, Costs and Health Care Policy - Rhonda J V Montgomery and Edgar F Borgatta Causes and Correlates of Crime Committed by the Elderly - Kyle Kercher

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