Social policy & aging : a critical perspective

✍ Scribed by Estes, Carroll L.

Publisher: Sage Publications
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Leaves: 307
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Political Economy of AgingA Theoretical Framework Critical Perspectives on AgingThe Medicalization and Commodification of Aging and the Privatization and Rationalization of Old Age PolicyThe Transformation of the Nonprofit Sector Systemic Crisis and the Political Economy of Aging ServicesCrisis, the Welfare State and Aging Ideology and Agency in the Social Security Privatization DebateSex and Gender in the Political Economy of AgingInequality and Aging The Creation of DependencyThe Medical Industrial-Complex and the Aging EnterpriseA Political Economic Critique of 'Productive Aging'The Underdevelopment of Community-Based Services in the United States Long-Term Care System A Structural Analysis

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