ISBN:
9781351502443
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (461 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Shanas, Ethel Old People in Three Industrial Societies
DDC:
305.26
Keywords:
Older people - Great Britain
Abstract:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- contents -- preface -- 1 Old People in Three Industrial Societies: An Introduction -- Why This Study Was Made -- The Basic Theories of Social Gerontology : Integration versus Segregation -- The General Approach -- The Elderly in Denmark, Britain, and the United States : A Brief Description -- Problems of Comparative Research -- Methods of the Present Study -- 2 Health and Incapacity in Later Life -- The Health Status of the Elderly: General Estimates -- How Sick Are Older People? -- Characteristics of the Incapacitated and the Well Aged -- Age and Health -- The Aged in Three Countries -- 3 The Psychology of Health -- Self-Evaluation of Health -- The Sick and the Well -- The Psychology of Health -- 4 Medical Services -- Over-all Differences in the Organization and Financing of Medical Care -- Measures of the Extent and Quality of Care -- Hospitals and Other Institutions in the Three Countries -- Hospitalization of the Aged -- Medical Consultation -- Costs, Income, and Medical Care -- Medical Care and Social Class -- Medical Care of the Housebound -- Medical Care of the Bedfast at Home -- Explanations for Differences in Utilization -- Summary -- 5 Welfare Services and the Family -- Welfare Services in Denmark -- Welfare Services in Britain -- Welfare Services in the United States -- A Different Emphasis on Community Care -- The Role of the Family -- The Separation of the Generations -- Home-Help Services in Denmark and Britain -- The Development of Community Services -- Summary -- 6 The Structure of the Family -- Definitions and Principles of Analysis -- The Span Between the Generations -- Aging and Family Structure -- Effects of Family Structure on Family Organization -- Effects of Family Structure on Family Relationships -- Compensation and Substitution -- Effects of Changes in Population Structure
Abstract:
Theories of Change in Family Life -- Summary -- 7 The Household and Family Relations of Old People -- Family Relations in Later Life, Myth or Theory? -- Some General Problems of Approach -- Concepts and Definitions -- Proximity to Children: Some Structural Aspects of the Extended Family -- Integration within the Extended Family -- The Effect of Age on the Household Composition and the Family Relations of Older People -- Health and Incapacity, the Organization of the Household, and Contact Between the Aged and Their Children -- The Diversity of the Family Relations of Older People -- Variations Between Denmark, Britain, and the United States -- 8 The Family Social Class -- Social Class and Family Structure -- Family Interaction and Social Class -- Family Help Patterns and Social Class -- Social Class and Family Life in Old Age -- 9 Isolation, Desolation, and Loneliness -- The Concept of Isolation -- The Difficulty of Providing an Operational Definition -- The Over-all Degree of Isolation -- The Characteristics of Isolated Persons -- Family Activities in Relation to Other Social Activities -- Loneliness in Old Age -- Mitigation of Loneliness -- Isolation, Loneliness, and Suicide -- Aging and Disengagement -- Summary -- 10 Work and Retirement -- Definitions and Main Results -- Labor Force Participation by Age Groups -- Labor Force Participation by Occupational Groups -- Labor Force Participation in Age Groups within Each Occupational Group -- Labor Force Participation by Marital Status -- The Pattern of Labor Force Participation -- Number of Working Hours -- Reasons for Retirement -- 11 The Meaning of Work -- Older Men: The Retired and the Working -- The Satisfactions and Dissatisfactions of Retirement -- The Satisfactions of Work -- The Meaning of Work -- 12 The Financial Resources of Older People: A General Review -- The Institutional Framework
Abstract:
A General Description of Sources of Income -- Income Levels -- Income Sources and Levels by Age -- The Ownership of Assets -- Conclusions -- 13 The Characteristics of Low Income Receivers and the Role of Government -- The Use of Savings and Mon-Monetary Sources of Income -- The Basic Determinants of Income Levels in Old Age -- The Role of Government -- A Summary of the Economic Position of the Aged -- 14 Summary and Conclusion -- Integration and Health -- Integration and Family -- Integration, Social Services, and Formal Associations -- Social Isolation and Loneliness -- Integration and Occupation -- Integration and Income -- Changes with Age -- Differences Between Men and Women -- Differences Between the Three Elderly Populations -- Social Policy -- Appendix A Sample Design and Response -- Appendix B Methodological Appendix to Chapters 12 and 13 -- Index
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