Growing Old in America

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Beth B. Hess
Transaction Publishers, 1980 - 599 pages
 

Contents

What When and Where?
1
And Then We Were
21
The Hunger of Old
39
OldAge Poverty in Preindustrial New York City
65
Una Anciana
89
The Timing of Our Lives
114
The Double Standard
134
Orville G Brim Jr
147
B As It Could
347
Communal LifeStyles for the
356
The Future of Family Relationships
373
Extended Families
394
Memories of My Grandmother
441
ThreeGeneration Household in the Middle Class
447
The Diversity of Older Voters
457
The Rediscovery of the Elderly
463

Grief and Bereavement
182
A Like It
191
Excerpts from Widowhood in an American City
204
Romance in the
235
A Million Procrustean Beds
244
Elizabeth Markson
270
Civil Liberties and the Frail Elderly
283
Battered Parents
304
Relative Deprivation Revisited
327
Emerging Pressures on Public Policies for
480
Statement of Principles
504
A Socially Harmful
516
Stereotypes of the Aged
530
How to Portray
543
Social Gerontology and the Age Stratification
568
Index
595
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About the author (1980)

Beth B. Hess is professor of political science at the County College of Morris, in Randolph, New Jersey. She is author of numerous books on aging and social gerontology.

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