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Social policy & aging : a critical perspective
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- Creator
- Carroll L. Estes and associates
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [2001]
- ©2001
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780803973466, 9780803973473, 1322417717, 9781452267029, 9781506332710, 9781322417714, 0803973462, 1452267022, 1506332714, 0803973470, 1452232679
- OCLC
- ocm44811989, on1007859060, ocn809773597
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-270) and index.
- Political economy of aging: a theoretical framework -- Critical perspectives on aging -- The medicalization and commodification of aging and the privatization and rationalization of old age policy -- The transformation of the nonprofit sector: systemic crisis and the political economy of aging services -- Crisis, the welfare state, and aging: ideology and agency in the social security privatization debate -- Sex and gender in the political economy of aging -- Inequality and aging: the creation of dependency -- The medical-industrial complex and the aging enterprise -- A political economy critique of "Productive Aging" -- The underdevelopment of community-based services in the U.S. long-term care system: a structural analysis -- The political economy of health work -- Concluding observations on social policy
Subjects
- Older people -- United States.
- Aging -- United States.
- Older people -- Government policy -- United States.
- Older people -- Medical care -- United States.
- Social stratification -- United States.
- Health Services for the Aged -- United States.
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- Aged -- United States.
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- Government Programs -- United States.
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