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Aging and The Life Course: An Introduction to Social Gerontology: An Introduction to Social Gerontology

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Author: Jill Quadagno
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Category: Book

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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 4
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 540
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.1 x 1

ISBN: 0073528161
Dewey Decimal Number: 301
EAN: 9780073528168
ASIN: 0073528161

Publication Date: January 4, 2007
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
This groundbreaking text is the first to take a life course perspective, examining the relationship between the quality of one's life in old age and one#xFFFD;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.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

Best aging text around June 23, 2007
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.

4 out of 5 stars

aging and the life course March 25, 2001
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

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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