Social Policy and Aging: A Critical Perspective

Social Policy and Aging: A Critical Perspective
ISBN-10
0803973470
ISBN-13
9780803973473
Category
Medical
Pages
286
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
SAGE
Author
Carroll L. Estes

Description

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 critical perspective as one of the major paradigms in the field of aging.

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