Foisted upon the government? : state responsibilities, family obligations, and the care of the dependent aged in late nineteenth-century Ontario /
While government officials in the 1890s claimed that forcing families to take responsibility for caring for the aged was in the interest of the elderly, Edgar-Andre Montigny reveals that government policy had more to do with saving money than a desire to serve the aged. He provides a harsh critique...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal, Que. :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©1997.
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Colección: | McGill-Queen's/Hannah Institute studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Population Aging, Old Age Dependency, and Public Policy
- 2. Home and Family: A Demographic Profile of the Aged in Nineteenth-Century Ontario: Brockville, 1851-1901
- 3. Dependency, Employment, and Need among Ontario's Aged: Perception and Reality
- 4. Families, Neighbours, and Communities: Local Support Systems for the Aged Poor in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
- 5. Government Policy towards the Dependent Aged in Ontario: Institutions and the Ideal Family
- 6. Institutions and the Impact of Public Policy on the Aged: The Elderly Patients of Rockwood Asylum, 1866-1906
- 7. Long-Term-Care Reform and Family Obligations in Ontario in the 1990s.