Growing old in the twentieth century
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Growing old in the twentieth century
Routledge, 1989
Available at 26 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
This century has seen a truly revolutionary shift in the age composition of the world's industrialized countries. This book discusses the social implications of the growth in the numbers of elderly people in modern societies. This book should be of interest to libraries,students and practitioners in gerontology, medical sociology; social policy makers.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: An Ageing Society and Ageing People
- Margot Jeffreys and Pat Thane
- Retirement and Structured Dependancy 1. The Politics of Retirement 1909-48
- John Macnicol and Andrew Blaikie 2. The Consolidation of 'Old Age' as a Phase of Life: 1945-65
- Sarah Harper and Pat Thane 3. The Structured Dependency of the Elderly: A critical note Paul Johnson 4. The Social Division of Early Retirement Alan Walker Part Two: Resources in Old Age: Mining National Statistical Sources 5. Resources in Old Age - Ageing and the Life Course
- Nigel Gilbert, Angela Dale, Sara Arber, Maria Evandrou and Frank Laczko 6. Income Inequality in Later Life Christina Victor 7. Longitudinal Perspectives on the Living Arrangements of the Elderly Emily Grundy Part Three: Contemporary Studies of Old People and their Carers 8. Virtue and Vicissitude: A study of the Social Construction of Old Age in Old People's Organisations
- Dorothy Jerrome 10. Support Networks in Old Age: Constructing a Typology
- Clare Wenger 11. Residential Care and the Maintenance of Social Identity: Negotiating the Transition to Institutional Life. Jennifer Hockey 12. The Gap between Hospital and Home: Two Models of Discharge of Elderly People Jill Russell and Maria Brenton 13. Black old women, disability and health carers
- E. Cameron, H. Evers, F. Badger, and K. Atkin.
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