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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 301
EAN num: 9780073528168
ISBN number: 0073528161
Label: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 540
Printing Date: January 04, 2007
Publishing house: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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This groundbreaking text is the very first to take a life course perspective, examining the relationship between the quality of one's life in old age and one�s experiences, earlier choices, opportunities, and constraints. The text gives students a broad background for understanding current policy debates through a distinctive chapter entitled 'Old Age and the Welfare State' (Chapter 11) and through boxed essays in every chapter called 'An Issue for Public Policy.' Each chapter also includes a box called 'In Their Own Words' that allows older people to describe their own experiences. In addition, coverage of race, class, gender, and culture is integrated throughout and featured in the 'Diversity in the Aging Experience' sections.
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I teach a course in the Sociology of Aging and this edition of the text is even better than the last edition. Quadagno covers all the important topics - caring for the frail elderly, retirement, income in later life, health and health care and death and dying. The book is quite attractive and the writing is clear and interesting. My students always love it. No text provides better coverage of all the issues salient to my course. Love it.
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mrs quadagno has written a book that effectively discusses the various effects of aging on society.she delves into the effects on a socioeconomic level.race and income as they relate to social services for the elderly is the man topic of her focus.american social services provided are compared with the other western democracies of similar economies.AS our society lives longer we need to discuss what it means to be elderly?and who should be entitled to receive social service programs ?should recipants be based on an age or a need basis?
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