Social policy and aging : a critical perspective / Carroll L. Estes.
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TextPublication details: Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; London : SAGE, 2001.Description: 288pISBN: - 9780803973473 (pbk.) :
- 9780803973466 (hbk.) :
- 9780803973473
- Social stratification -- United States
- Older people -- Medical care -- United States
- Older people -- Government policy -- United States
- Older people -- United States
- Aged -- United States
- Aging -- United States
- Aged -- Government policy -- United States
- Aged -- Medical care -- United States
- Health and Wellbeing
- Social & ethical issues
- Sociology
- Care of the elderly
- Age groups: the elderly
- 361.61 EST
- HQ1064.V5
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Political economy of aging: A theoretical framework--2. Critical perspectives on aging--3. The medicalization and commodification of aging and the privatization and rationalization of old age policy--4. The transformation of the nonprofit sector: Systemic crisis and the political economy of aging services--5.Crisis,the welfare state, and aging: Ideology and agency in the social security privatization debate.--6. Sex and gender in the political economy of aging--7. Inequality and aging: The creation of dependency--8. The medical-industrial complex and the aging enterprise--9. A political economy critique of Productive aging--10. The underdevelopment of community-based servoces om the U.S. Long-term care system: A structural analysis--11. The political economy of health work.
This volume provides a comprehensive treatment of the political economy of aging by a scholar widely credited as the founder and key thinker of this field.