Old Age in the New Land : The American Experience since 1790 /
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| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2019
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
- pt. I: Changing perceptions of the aged's roles in nineteenth-century America
- The usefulness of old age
- Variations on a theme
- The obsolescence of old age
- pt. II: The demographic and socioeconomic dimensions of old age
- The rhetoric and realities of growing old diverge in nineteenth-century America
- Old age becomes "modern" in twentieth-century America
- pt. III: Contemporary old age in historical perspective
- Old age becomes a national problem
- Social Security: A novel solution for the problem of America's aged
- Old age in the United States since Social Security.