Growing Old in AmericaBeth 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 |
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