Beyond Sixty-Five: The Dilemma of Old Age in America's Past - Rilegato

Haber, Carole

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 052125096X ISBN 13: 9780521250962

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1983

Riassunto

This book investigates the changing roles and perceptions of old age in nineteenth-century America. It shows how the economic and social transformation of the nation affected the condition of the aged, as it altered beliefs about their abilities and needs. Focusing on the ideas of doctors, charity workers, and social planners, it traces the process by which their view of senescence was incorporated into geriatric medicine, the development of the nation's first old-age homes and mandatory retirement plans. With the adoption of these programmes, old age came to be seen as a widespread social problem. By the early twentieth century, it had become characterized as a time of dependence and disease - an attitude which continues to influence the way that modern Americans perceive and treat the elderly.

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Descrizione del libro:

This book investigates the changing roles and perceptions of old age in nineteenth-century America. It shows how the economic and social transformation of the nation affected the condition of the aged, as it altered beliefs about their abilities and needs.

Contenuti:

1. Classifying Society's Superannuated; 2. Aging in Colonial America; 3. Social Realities and Perceptions of Old Age in the Nineteenth Century; 4. Medical Models of Growing Old; 5. Treating the Postclimacteric Stage; 6. Institutionalizing the Elderly; 7. The Pension Barrier; 8. Old Age in a Bureaucratic Society.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1983
• ISBN 10: 052125096X
• ISBN 13: 9780521250962
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 192