Aging and old age /
Aging and Old Age offers fresh insight into a wide range of social and political issues relating to the elderly, such as health care, crime, social security, and discrimination. From their dread of death to the extraordinary law-abidingness of the old, from their loquacity to their penny-pinching, P...
| Основен автор: | Posner, Richard A. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1995.
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Publisher description Table of contents |
Съдържание:
- Aging and old age as social, biological, and economic phenomena
- What is aging, and why?
- Old age past, present, and future
- A human-capital model of aging
- An economic model of aging with change assumed
- The economic theory elaborated and applied
- The economic psychology of the old
- Behavioral correlates of age
- Age, creativity, and output
- Adjudication and old age
- The status of the old and the aging of institutions
- Normative issues
- Euthanasia and geronticide
- Social security and health
- Legal issues of aging and old age
- Age discrimination by employers and the issue of mandatory retirement.