Our Aging Society: Paradox and PromiseAlan J. Pifer, Lydia Bronte W. W. Norton & Company, 1986 - 438 pages In sounding alarm about the population challenges we face in the next five decades, the essays here--written by a wide variety of experts--offer constructive proposals for meeting these challenges on both personal and public policy levels. |
Contents
W Andrew Achenbaum | 15 |
Neugarten and Dail A Neugarten | 33 |
Demographic Dimensions | 79 |
Alice S Rossi | 111 |
Gunhild O Hagestad | 141 |
Harold A Richman and Matthew W Stagner | 161 |
Outlook for the Black Family | 181 |
Harry R Moody | 199 |
Edward A Wynne | 243 |
James E Birren | 263 |
The Life and Death | 283 |
Paying the HealthCare Bills | 299 |
Malcolm H Morrison | 341 |
Palmer and Stephanie G Gould | 367 |
Alan Pifer | 391 |
Notes on Contributors | 415 |
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