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Social policy & aging : a critical perspective / Carroll L. Estes and associates.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Description: xviii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0803973462
  • 9780803973466
  • 0803973470
  • 9780803973473
Other title:
  • Social policy and aging
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.260973 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ1064.U5 E76 2001
Contents:
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.
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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.

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