Social policy & aging : a critical perspective /

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This volume provides a comprehensive treatment of the political economy of aging by a scholar widely credited as the founder and key thinker of this field.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Estes, Carroll L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©2001.
Temas:
Older people > United States.
Aging > United States.
Older people > Government policy > United States.
Older people > Medical care > United States.
Social stratification > United States.
Older people.
Health Services for the Aged
Aged
Government Programs
Personnes âgées > États-Unis.
Vieillissement > États-Unis.
Personnes âgées > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Personnes âgées > Soins médicaux > États-Unis.
Stratification sociale > États-Unis.
Personnes âgées.
elderly.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Aging.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gerontology.
Aging
Older people
Older people > Government policy
Older people > Medical care
Social stratification
Sociale politiek.
Ouderen.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Political economy of aging: a theoretical framework
  • Critical perspectives on aging
  • The medicalization and commodification of aging and the privatization and rationalization of old age policy
  • The transformation of the nonprofit sector: systemic crisis and the political economy of aging services
  • Crisis, the welfare state, and aging: ideology and agency in the social security privatization debate
  • Sex and gender in the political economy of aging
  • Inequality and aging: the creation of dependency
  • The medical-industrial complex and the aging enterprise
  • A political economy critique of "Productive Aging"
  • The underdevelopment of community-based services in the U.S. long-term care system: a structural analysis
  • The political economy of health work
  • Concluding observations on social policy.

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