Achieving a productive aging society / edited by Scott A. Bass, Francis G. Caro, and Yung-Ping Chen
- Bib ID:
- 1296249
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- Book
- Description:
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- Westport, Conn. : Auburn House, 1993
- x, 312 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0865690324
- 0865690332
- Full contents:
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- I. The Concept of Productive Aging. 1. Introduction: Achieving a Productive Aging Society / Francis G. Caro, Scott A. Bass and Yung-Ping Chen. 2. Age, Productivity, and Transcendence / Harry R. Moody
- II. Employment. 3. Labor Market Obstacles to Aging Productively / Joseph F. Quinn and Richard V. Burkhauser. 4. Ageism versus Productive Aging: The Challenge of Age Discrimination in the Labor Market / Alan Walker and Philip Taylor. 5. New Technologies and the Aging Work Force / David C. Mowery and Mark S. Kamlet. 6. Is Unretirement Unprecedented? / W. Andrew Achenbaum and Malcolm H. Morrison
- III. Volunteering and Long-Term Care. 7. Formal Volunteer Work among Older Americans / A. Regula Herzog and James N. Morgan. 8. Caregiving and Productive Aging / Pamela Doty and Baila Miller. 9. The Political Economy of Productive Aging: Long-term Care / Laura Katz Olson
- IV. Mediating Institutions.
- 10. Lost Traditions and Horizons Reclaimed: Religious Institutions and Productive Aging / W. Andrew Achenbaum. 11. Learning Productive Aging as a Social Role: The Lessons of Television / George Gerbner. 12. A Strategy for Productive Aging: Education in Later Life / Harry R. Moody
- V. Implications for Special Populations. 13. Women's Lives, Women's Work: Productivity, Gender, and Aging / Martha Holstein. 14. Cultural and Ethnic Contexts of Aging Productively over the Life Course: An Economic Network Framework / James S. Jackson, Toni C. Antonucci and Rose C. Gibson. 15. Continuing Limits on Productive Aging: The Lesser Rewards for Working Women / Karen C. Holden
- VI. The Future. 16. Conclusion: Defining the Place of the Elderly in the Twenty-first Century / Robert Morris.
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- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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