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1 online resource (280 pages) |
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Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Ser |
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Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction: Challenge to a New Age; Chapter 1: Introduction; PART I: INTRODUCTION TO THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AGING; Chapter 2: Dominant and Competing Paradigms in Gerontology: Towards a Political Economy of Aging; Chapter 3: The Political Economy of Government Cuts for the Elderly; Chapter 4: Social Control of the Elderly; PART II: INSTITUTIONS AND STRUCTURED DEPENDENCY: SOCIAL CONTROL AND MARKET ECONOMY HEALTH CARE; Chapter 5: Community Care and the Elderly in Great Britain: Theory and Practice |
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Chapter 6: Mental Illness and the Aged StrangerChapter 7: Medicare and Medicaid: The Process, Value and Limits of Health Care Reforms; Chapter 8: Public Policy and the Nursing Home Industry; PART III: INSTITUTIONS AND STRUCTURED DEPENDENCY: INCOME, LABOR AND CONTROL OF CAPITAL; Chapter 9: Reframing the Agenda of Policies on Aging; Chapter 10: Conflict, Crisis and the Future of Old Age Security; Chapter 11: Retirement and the Origins of Age Discrimination; PART IV: AGING AS A WOMEN'S ISSUE; Chapter 12: Why Is Women's Lib Ignoring Old Women?; Chapter 13: Women and the Economics of Aging |
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Chapter 14: The Sociopolitical Context of Women's RetirementPART V: FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL POLICY FOR THE ELDERLY; Chapter 15: Austerity and Aging: 1980 and Beyond; Chapter 16: Blaming the Aged Victim: The Politics of Retrenchment in Times of Fiscal Conservatism; Epilogue; Contributors |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Estes, Carroll L
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| ISBN |
9781351842112 |
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1351842110 |
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