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1 online resource (461 pages) |
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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 |
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3 The Psychology of HealthSelf-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 |
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Welfare Services in BritainWelfare 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 |
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Theories of Change in Family LifeSummary; 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 |
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Variations Between Denmark, Britain, and the United States8 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 |
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Aging and Disengagement |
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Print version record |
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Older people -- Great Britain
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Older people
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Townsend, Peter
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Wedderburn, Dorothy
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Friis, Henning Kristian
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Milhoj, Poul
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Stehouwer, Jan
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| ISBN |
9781351502443 |
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1351502441 |
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