Age And Inequality: Diverse Pathways Through Later Life

Age and Inequality: Diverse Pathways Thr

📁 Age and Inequality: Diverse Pathways Through Later Life

✍ Angela O'rand, John C Henretta, Angela M. O'Rand, John C. Henretta 📂 Library 📅 2001 🌐 English

In the United States, older populations exhibit the highest levels of economic inequality of all age groups. Across all advanced societies, the inequalities observed in older populations stem from structural and individual processes that differentiate the life courses of women and men and yield dist

Age and Inequality: Diverse Pathways Thr

📁 Age and Inequality: Diverse Pathways Through Later Life

✍ Angela O'rand, John C Henretta, Angela M. O'Rand, John C. Henretta 📂 Library 📅 2001 🌐 English

In the United States, older populations exhibit the highest levels of economic inequality of all age groups. Across all advanced societies, the inequalities observed in older populations stem from structural and individual processes that differentiate the life courses of women and men and yield dist

Migration, Diversity and Inequality in L

📁 Migration, Diversity and Inequality in Later Life: Ageing at a Crossroads

✍ Dora Sampaio 📂 Library 📅 2022 🏛 Palgrave Macmillan 🌐 English

This book is the first comprehensive ethnographic study of the diversity of living and ageing experiences of three groups of older migrants – return, lifestyle and ageing-in-place labour migrants – from a comparative perspective. It explores the motivations, ageing experiences and aspiratio

Belief and ageing: Spiritual pathways in

📁 Belief and ageing: Spiritual pathways in later life

✍ Peter G. Coleman 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Policy Press 🌐 English

Based on 40 years' interviewing experience, this book illustrates the variety of religious, spiritual and other beliefs held by older people. It provides models of research procedure, especially in the context of bereavement. Participants include not only British Christians, but also Muslims, Hum

Social Divisions and Later Life: Differe

📁 Social Divisions and Later Life: Difference, Diversity and Inequality

✍ Chris Gilleard; Paul Higgs 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 Policy Press 🌐 English

As the population ages, this book reveals how divides that are apparent through childhood and working life change and are added to in later life. Two internationally renowned experts in ageing look beyond longstanding factors like class, gender and ethnicity to explore new social divisions, inclu

Later Life: Exploring Ageing through Lit

📁 Later Life: Exploring Ageing through Literature

✍ Barbara A. Misztal 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

Later Life views older age as a valuable stage of life and argues for the centrality of self-making to the quality of later life. Aiming to enrich an understanding of ageing as the unfolding process in which people try to negotiate vulnerabilities of their bodies and manage mortality, it explores

Age And Inequality: Diverse Pathways Through Later Life

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