Old Age in the New Land : The American Experience since 1790 / W. Andrew Achenbaum.
Material type: TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (258 pages): illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781421435077
- Alter
- Older people
- Public opinion
- Personnes âgees -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Personnes âgees -- États-Unis -- Opinion publique
- Opinion publique -- États-Unis
- Aged -- history
- Geriatrics -- history
- Older people -- United States -- History
- Older people -- United States -- Public opinion
- Public opinion -- United States
- USA
- United States
- United States
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pt. I: Changing perceptions of the aged's roles in nineteenth-century America -- The usefulness of old age -- Variations on a theme -- The obsolescence of old age -- pt. II: The demographic and socioeconomic dimensions of old age -- The rhetoric and realities of growing old diverge in nineteenth-century America -- Old age becomes "modern" in twentieth-century America -- pt. III: Contemporary old age in historical perspective -- Old age becomes a national problem -- Social Security: A novel solution for the problem of America's aged -- Old age in the United States since Social Security.
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