Old Age in the New Land : The American Experience since 1790 /
Achenbaum, W. Andrew.
Old Age in the New Land : The American Experience since 1790 / W. Andrew Achenbaum. - 1 online resource (258 pages): illustrations - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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.
Open Access
9781421435077
Alter
Older people.
Public opinion.
Personnes âgees--Histoire.--États-Unis
Personnes âgees--Opinion publique.--États-Unis
Opinion publique--États-Unis.
Aged--history
Geriatrics--history
Older people--History.--United States
Older people--Public opinion.--United States
Public opinion--United States.
USA.
United States.
United States
History.
Electronic books.
Old Age in the New Land : The American Experience since 1790 / W. Andrew Achenbaum. - 1 online resource (258 pages): illustrations - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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.
Open Access
9781421435077
Alter
Older people.
Public opinion.
Personnes âgees--Histoire.--États-Unis
Personnes âgees--Opinion publique.--États-Unis
Opinion publique--États-Unis.
Aged--history
Geriatrics--history
Older people--History.--United States
Older people--Public opinion.--United States
Public opinion--United States.
USA.
United States.
United States
History.
Electronic books.