Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain

✍ Scribed by Charlotte Greenhalgh

Publisher: University of California Press
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 276
Series: Berkeley Series in British Studies; 13
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

As today’s baby boomers reach retirement and old age, this timely study looks back at the first generation who aged in the British welfare state. Using innovative research methods, Charlotte Greenhalgh sheds light on the experiences of elderly people in twentieth-century Britain. She adds further insights from the interviews and photographs of celebrated social scientists such as Peter Townsend, whose work helped transform care of the aged. A comprehensive and sensitive examination of the creative pursuits, family relations, work lives, health, and living conditions of the elderly, Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain charts the determined efforts of aging Britons to shape public understandings of old age in the modern era.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Aging and Twentieth-Century Britain
1. Experts and the Elderly: Social Research on Old Age
2. Talking with Peter Townsend: Elderly Britons at Home
3. Into the Institution: Residential Care for the Aged
4. “Making the Best of My Appearance”: Grooming in Old Age
5. Games with Time: Autobiography and Aging
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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