Critical issues in aging policy : linking research and values
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Critical issues in aging policy : linking research and values
（Sage focus editions, v. 86）
Sage Publications, c1987
- : hard
- : pbk
Available at 23 libraries
Description and Table of Contents
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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