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Author : Laura Katz Olson
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231054508
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (545 download)
Download or read book The Political Economy of Aging written by Laura Katz Olson and published by New York : Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carroll L. Estes
Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Political Economy, Health, and Aging written by Carroll L. Estes and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1984 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Myles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Old Age in the Welfare State written by John Myles and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura Katz Olson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231150601
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Medicaid written by Laura Katz Olson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the social, political and economic factors that have shaped Medicaid, the author of The Political Economy of Aging: The State, Private Power, and Social Welfare helps readers understand the powerful interests that cause costs to swell and hold elected officials hostage.
Author : Fred C. Pampel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521437912
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)
Download or read book Age, Class, Politics, and the Welfare State written by Fred C. Pampel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed analysis of data from the UN, ILO, and the World Bank leads to the conclusion that a large aged population, especially in combination with democratic political processes, has a direct and crucial influence on the level of welfare expenditures.
Author : Sungsoo Joo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (175 download)
Download or read book The Political Economy of Old-age Policy written by Sungsoo Joo and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marilyn Pearsall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429964609
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Other Within Us written by Marilyn Pearsall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist women bequeath to us a powerful critique of our society's obsession with beauty and impossible body ideals. Having refused makeup, high heels, and short skirts in their youth, these women are now entering the most stigmatized stage in a woman's life?old age. As she becomes the ?older woman,? the feminist's rejection of beauty standards and her ability to locate self-worth is being challenged.How will feminists respond to the issues raised in this phase of their lives? By confronting the issues unique to older women in our culture and society, these authors redress the neglect and isolation experienced within contemporary feminism and gerontology.Ultimately, the goal of the book is to inspire the aging woman to more easily embrace the ?older other? within her.
Author : Derek Gill
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791417652
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Eldercare, Distributive Justice, and the Welfare State written by Derek Gill and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book describe the situation of the elderly today, taking into account the major political, economic, and social variations of service provided in a variety of countries. Although the welfare state exists in all developed and developing countries, its content and administration varies substantially. The editors first develop a framework of concepts and perspectives that establish links between eldercare, distributive justice, and the welfare state. This is followed by analyses of the services provided to the elderly in selected countries. Finally, the editors show how and in what ways the concepts developed earlier in the introduction--equity, uniformity, public accountability, individualism, collectivism, institutional or residual welfare state orientation, "high" or "low" wage economy--apply to and explain the differences in care of the elderly.
Author : Anne Marie Guillemard
Publisher : London ; Beverly Hills, Calif. : Sage Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Old Age and the Welfare State written by Anne Marie Guillemard and published by London ; Beverly Hills, Calif. : Sage Publications. This book was released on 1983 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern welfare state is above all a welfare state for the elderly. An overwhelming proportion of its services and benefits go to them. The current crisis of the welfare state is also, therefore, a crisis of policy concerned with the aged. The essays in this volume examine not only interventions by governments on behalf of the old, but the very basis and history of the welfare state itself. From a variety of perspectives ranging from structural functionalism to neomarxism, they examine old age policy in six advanced industrial nations -- the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Italy, West Germany, and France. The essays in Part One deal with the process of making public policy on old age and changes in it during the current economic crisis. Contributions in the second part examine the impact of existing policies on older people. The focus of the essays on social, economic, and political aspects amounts to a new approach in gerontology that has been called by some the political economy of ageing. This book is unique in providing research on the relationship between old age policy and the larger class structure, economy, and state apparatus of more than one country. It will become a classic in the field, and an example of how sociology can be relevant to deal with our current social and economic crisis.' -- "Manuel Castells, University of California at Berkeley"
Author : Derek G. Gill
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791417669
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Eldercare, Distributive Justice, and the Welfare State written by Derek G. Gill and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-02-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book describe the situation of the elderly today, taking into account the major political, economic, and social variations of service provided in a variety of countries. Although the welfare state exists in all developed and developing countries, its content and administration varies substantially. The editors first develop a framework of concepts and perspectives that establish links between eldercare, distributive justice, and the welfare state. This is followed by analyses of the services provided to the elderly in selected countries. Finally, the editors show how and in what ways the concepts developed earlier in the introductionequity, uniformity, public accountability, individualism, collectivism, institutional or residual welfare state orientation, high or low wage economyapply to and explain the differences in care of the elderly.
Author : Michael Fabricant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315289156
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)
Download or read book The Welfare State Crisis and the Transformation of Social Service Work written by Michael Fabricant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has emerged in response to social service workers' vivid descriptions of changes in the practice of their craft during the past 15 years and to the scanty literature that addressed their concerns. Few works have attempted to explore the interplay between the recent broader changes affecting the welfare state (fiscal crisis, cost containment, privatization, etc) and the restructuring of social service work. Yet, it is clear that the fiscal decisions of the 1980s profoundly affected both the context and content of social service practice. "The Welfare State Crisis and the Transformation of Social Service Work" explores how these larger forces have created significant changes for the line practitioner. The greater push for caseload volume in the face of resource scarcity is redefining service encounters in ways that are more likely to meet the fiscal needs of the agency rather than the service needs of clients and the professional concerns of the worker. In short, the fiscal crisis of the past two decades has placed the enterprise of social services at risk. After empirically documenting the seriousness of the risk, "The Welfare State Crisis and the Transformation of Social Service Work" concludes with an exploration of new social service practice strategies that have the potential to integrate the individual, organization, communal, and social changes necessary for effective service interventions.
Author : Simon Biggs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351863274
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Need for Theory written by Simon Biggs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Need for Theory" speaks to the burgeoning need for critical thinking in social gerontology. The editors have brought together some of the foremost contributors to theoretical advances in the field. This volume incorporates state-of-the-art theorizing with a focus on selected topical areas facing gerontologists around the world. Using their keen insights into substantive issues, the contributors examine personal and structural changes affecting individuals over the life course. Extolling the need for theory is not enough; the contributors focus their insights on a panoply of substantive issues, linking the personal with the political and with the structural parameters that shape the process of aging, no matter where it occurs.
Author : Richard Lee Deaton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Political Economy of Pensions written by Richard Lee Deaton and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2011, the 'Baby Boom' generation will begin to retire. Bythen, the stark reality of the 'greying' of the population inNorth America and Western Europe will have brought the inadequacies ofthe state and private pension systems home to all levels of society,and the pension crisis will be actual rather than impending. In ThePolitical Economy of Pensions, Richard Deaton explores the factorsinvolved in this high-profile issue of public policy and shows theinsufficiency of recent reform initiatives in Canada, the UnitedStates, and Britain. Four converging considerations explain theimminence of the pension crisis.
Author : Teresa Ghilarducci
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069117802X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book When I'm Sixty-Four written by Teresa Ghilarducci and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crisis is looming for baby boomers and anyone else who hopes to retire in the coming years. In When I'm Sixty-Four, Teresa Ghilarducci, the nation's leading authority on the economics of retirement, explains how to confront this crisis head-on, revealing the causes behind the increasingly precarious economics of old age in America and proposing a bold plan to guarantee retirement security for every working citizen. Retirement is one of the hallmarks of a prosperous, civilized market economy. Yet in America today Social Security is on the ropes. Government and employers are dismantling pension security, forcing older people to work longer. The federal government spends billions in exemptions for 401(k)s and other voluntary retirement accounts, yet retirement savings for most workers is falling. Ghilarducci takes an unflinching look at the eroding economic structure of retirement in America--and what she finds is alarming. She exposes the failures of pension regulators and the false hopes of privatized Social Security. She tells the ugly truth about risky 401(k) plans, do-it-yourself retirement schemes, and companies like Enron that have left employees without any retirement savings. Ghilarducci puts forward a sweeping plan to revive the retirement-income system, a plan that will ensure that, after forty years of work, every American will receive 70 percent of their preretirement earnings, guaranteed for life. No other book makes such a persuasive case for overhauling the pension and Social Security system in order to provide older Americans with the financial stability they have earned and deserve.
Author : Paul K. Kim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317954327
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Services to the Aging and Aged written by Paul K. Kim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series attempts to address the topic of aging from a wide variety of perspectives and to make available some of the best gerontological thought and writings to researchers, professional practitioners, and students in the field of aging as well as in other related areas.This volume is an invaluable resource for those persons seeking a broad, comprehensive coverage of current public policies and service programs for the elderly. Besides dealing with present gerontological services, it also explores the emerging challenges that these services must face in the future. One of the outstanding features of the book is that its contributors include some of the most prominent authorities in the field of gerontology. This is an exceptionally important and timely volume and is a much needed addition to the literature on aging.
Author : Meredith Minkler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135186842X
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Aging written by Meredith Minkler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume brings together 20 critical essays on aging within the context of the broad social, political, and economic factors that help shape and determine the realities of growing old. Rather than viewing aging in isolation, it explores the social creation of old age dependency and the profound influence of race, gender, and social class on what it means to grow old. It looks too at such topics as the "biomedicalization" of aging; the role of business and the media in changing societal images of the old; the fact and fiction behind "senior power"; the multibillion dollar nursing home industry; and the role of advanced capitalist nations in creating economic dependency among elders in the Third World.
Author : Laura Katz Olson
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9781560243632
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (436 download)
Download or read book The Graying of the World written by Laura Katz Olson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book studies America's frail older population relative to the elderly in ten other nations. It contains a cross-national assessment of approaches to long-term care for the elderly and explains the nature and extent of current and future problems related to caring for the functionally impaired elderly. By studying and analyzing the ongoing struggles of other nations in their attempts to cope with growing populations of frail elderly, readers in the U.S. can expand the parameters of their own national debate on the subject. The Graying of the World shows the political, economic, and social context in which decisions on elder-care are based and evaluates how successful various countries'programs have been. Chapters outline alternative approaches taken by disparate types of national systems, highlighting unique and creative solutions to provide useful information on new and alternative ways to respond to personal and public issues related to elder-care. The elderly and their care in Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Japan, People's Republic of China, Sweden, and Yugoslavia are discussed, as are the elderly in Canada and the United States. Chapters cover the following topics for each country: the increasing number of frail elderly and their costly health needs the current and future role of the state in elder-care the current and future role of the family in elder-care types of support services offered for the elderly, including in-home care, community-based care, and institutional care the relationship of a nation's political economy to its attitude and policy on long-term care innovative approaches to elder-care Practitioners, decision makers, and the concerned general public will all find The Graying of the World an interesting and informative book that expands the discussion of health care options available for the elderly. As such, the book is also a helpful text for undergraduate and beginning graduate students of gerontology, public policy, and comparative politics, as well as for social service practitioners. It provokes much-needed conversation on developing a healthcare plan for the future that meets the needs of a large elderly population.
