ISBN:
9780803973473
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (307 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Social Policy and Aging : A Critical Perspective
DDC:
305.26/0973
Keywords:
Older people ; United States
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Aging ; United States
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Older people ; Government policy ; United States
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Older people ; Medical care ; United States
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Social stratification ; United States
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This groundbreaking book provides comprehensive treatment of the political economy of aging by a scholar widely credited as the founder and key thinker of this field in the US and internationally. The body of work presented in this volume, in developing this critical perspective, aims to contribute to the understanding of old age and aging in the context of problems and issues of the larger social order in the world's most advanced capitalist nation, the U.S.A.. Since Estes' first writing on the political economy of aging in 1979, there has been growing recognition and incorporation of her cri
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Political Economy of Aging: A Theoretical Framework; Theoretical Model; The Interlocking Systems of Oppression; Ideology; Conclusion; Chapter 2. Critical Perspectives on Aging; Prevailing Gerontological Theories and Their Limitations; The Critical Perspective: A Theoretical Retrospective„ 1960s to the Present; Major Theoretical Perspectives in the Critical Approach; Applying the Critical Theoretical Approach to Aging; Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 3. The Medicalization and Commodification of Aging and the Privatization and Rationalization of Old Age PolicyThe Biomedicalization of Aging; The Commodification of Old Age and the Privatization of Medical Care; The Rationalization of Medical Care; Implications; Conclusion; Chapter 4. The Transformation of the Nonprofit Sector: Systemic Crisis and the Political Economy of Aging Services; Shocks to the Nonprofit Sector: Historical Transformation, 1980 to the Present; Crisis Theory; Theorizing the Nonprofit Sector From a Political Economy Framework; Health and Human Services
Description / Table of Contents:
The Nonprofit Sector and Crisis: HypothesesConclusion; Chapter 5. Crisis, the Welfare State, and Aging: Ideology and Agency in the Social Security Privatization Debate; Creating a Crisis; The Privatization of Social Security; Media, Think Tanks, and the Disparate Influence of Pro-Privatizert; Capital and the Attack on Social Security; Conclusion; Chapter 6. Sex and Gender in the Political Economy of Aging; The Political Economy of Gender and Old Age; The Situation of Older Women; The Gendered State; Aging and State Theory; Women's Roles, Social Institutions, and Social Policy; Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 7. Inequality and Aging: The Creation of DependencyCreating Dependency; Population Growth and the Dependency Ratio; Economic and Social Well-Being; Social Class and Health; Social Support and Health; Mortality; Morbidity; Use of Health Care; Conclusion; Chapter 8. The Medical-Industrial Complex and the Aging Enterprise; The Health Care System; The Role of Capital and the Marketplace; The Role of the State; The U.S. Medical-Industrial Complex in a Global Context; Conclusion; Chapter 9. A Political Economy Critique of "Productive Aging"
Description / Table of Contents:
The Development of the Productive Aging PerspectiveA Critique; Conclusion; Chapter 10. The Underdevelopment of Community-Based Services in the U. S. Long-Term Care System: A Structural Analysis; Aging and Disability in the United States; Long-Term Care and Community-Based Care; Financial and Industrial Capital; The Role of the State; Professionals and Delivery Systems in Long-Term Care; Conclusion: The Public, Users, and Family Members; Chapter 11. The Political Economy of Health Work; Health Work in the Capitalist Economy; Health Work Policy Environment: The Role of the State
Description / Table of Contents:
Conclusion: A New Perspective on Health Work
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