Readings in the Political Economy of Aging (Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series)

Includes 16 essays which address many issues from a different perspective suggested by the experience of aging in America. This study explores the political, social, and economic realities which have an impact on Americans as they grow older.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Minkler, Meredith

Estes, Carroll

Mental Health

Routledge

<p>Includes 16 essays which address many issues from a different perspective suggested by the experience of aging in America. This study explores the political, social, and economic realities which have an impact on Americans as they grow older.</p>

Critical Perspectives on Aging: The Political and Moral Economy of Growing Old (Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series)

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.

Business & Money

Personal Finance

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Readings in the Political Economy of Aging (Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series)

Readings in the Political Economy of Aging (Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series)

Critical Perspectives on Aging: The Political and Moral Economy of Growing Old (Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series)

Critical Perspectives on Aging: The Political and Moral Economy of Growing Old (Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series)