ISBN:
9780511572425
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (ix, 181 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.2/6/0973
Keywords:
Geschichte 1800-1900
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Geschichte 1700-1900
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Geschichte 1800-1900
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Geschichte
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Aging / United States / History / 19th century
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Older people / Services for / United States / History / 19th century
;
Alter
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USA
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USA
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USA
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Alter
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Geschichte 1700-1900
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USA
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Alter
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Geschichte 1800-1900
Abstract:
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
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Feb 2016)
,
Classifying society's superannuated
,
Aging in colonial America
,
Social realities and perceptions of old age in the nineteenth century
,
Medical models of growing old
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Treating the postclimacteric stage
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Institutionalizing the elderly
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The pension barrier
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Old age in a bureaucratic society
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511572425
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511572425
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