| Description |
xxiv, 631 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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(cont.) Some consequences of organizational demography : potential impacts of an aging work force on formal organizations / Jeffrey Pfeffer -- Reform movements and organizations : the case of aging / W. Richard Scott -- Social and emotional resources. Dilemmas of social support : parallels between victimization and aging / Christine Dunkel-Schetter, Camille B. Wortman -- Convoys of social support : a life-course approach / Robert L. Kahn, Toni C. Antonucci -- The role of expectancy in adaptation to aging / Robert R. Sears -- The self-concept and old age / Joel Cooper, George R. Goethals -- Old age and age differentiation : anthropological speculations on age as a social border / Jennie Keith -- Social conditions and social problems. The living arrangements of the elderly in the near future / Beth J. Soldo -- The changing housing and neighborhood environment of the elderly : a look at the year 2000 / Raymond J. Struyk -- The labor market behavior of older people : a framework for analysis / Marjorie Honig, Giora Hanoch |
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(cont.) Women's employment and its implications for the status of the elderly of the future / Judith Treas -- Behavioral and social science research and the future elderly / James N. Morgan |
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Overview on aging : some biomedical, social, and behavioral perspectives / Robert N. Butler -- Anticipating the future. The kin of the aged in A.D. 2000 : the chickens come home to roost / E.A. Hammel, K.W. Wachter, C.K. McDaniel -- The aging population, social trends, and changes of behavior and belief / Sara B. Kiesler -- An epidemiologic gaze into the crystal ball of the elderly / Sidney Cobb, John Fulton -- Government and policy. Conservative weather in a liberalizing climate : change in selected NORC general social survey items, 1972-1978 / James A. Davis -- Political characteristics of elderly cohorts in the twenty-first century / Neal E. Cutler -- The welfare state and the political mobilization of the elderly / Richard G. Fox -- Life-stage effects on attitude change, especially among the elderly / David O. Sears -- Aging and opportunities for elective office / Joseph A. Schlesinger, Mildred Schlesinger -- Organizations. The aging of work organizations : impact on organization and employment practice / Shelby Stewman |
| Analysis |
Adults Ageing |
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Adults Ageing Conference proceedings |
| Notes |
Papers from a workshop entitled "The elderly of the future," held May 3-5, 1979, in Annapolis, Md., which was organized by the Committee on Aging, National Research Council and sponsored by the National Institute on Aging |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and indexes |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Aging -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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Aging -- Social aspects.
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Aging.
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Older people -- United States -- Economic conditions -- Congresses.
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Older people -- United States -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
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Older people -- United States -- Socioeconomic status -- Congresses
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Older people -- United States -- Socioeconomic status
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Aged.
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Aging.
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Socioeconomic Factors.
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Aging.
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Social Change.
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United States. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Congress.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Kiesler, Sara, 1940-
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Morgan, James N., 1918-2018.
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Oppenheimer, Valerie Kincade.
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Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences (U.S.). Committee on Aging.
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National Institute on Aging.
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| LC no. |
81014959 |
| ISBN |
0120400022 |
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0120400227 (paperback) |
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