ISBN:
9781452267029
,
1452267022
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xviii, 286 p. :)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Estes, Carroll L Social policy & aging
DDC:
305.260973
Keywords:
Older people United States
;
Aging United States
;
Older people Government policy
;
United States
;
Older people Medical care
;
United States
;
Social stratification United States
;
Older people
;
Aging
;
Older people Government policy
;
Older people Medical care
;
Social stratification
;
Health Services for the Aged
;
Aged
;
Government Programs
;
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Aging
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gerontology
;
Aging
;
Older people
;
Older people ; Government policy
;
Older people ; Medical care
;
Social stratification
;
Sociale politiek
;
Ouderen
;
United States
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Political economy of aging: a theoretical framework -- Critical perspectives on aging -- The medicalization and commodification of aging and the privatization and rationalization of old age policy -- The transformation of the nonprofit sector: systemic crisis and the political economy of aging services -- Crisis, the welfare state, and aging: ideology and agency in the social security privatization debate -- Sex and gender in the political economy of aging -- Inequality and aging: the creation of dependency -- The medical-industrial complex and the aging enterprise -- A political economy critique of "Productive Aging" -- The underdevelopment of community-based services in the U.S. long-term care system: a structural analysis -- The political economy of health work -- Concluding observations on social policy.
Abstract:
This volume provides a comprehensive treatment of the political economy of aging by a scholar widely credited as the founder and key thinker of this field
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-270) and index
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