Growing Old with the Welfare State
Growing Old with the Welfare State

Author: Nick Hubble

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-05-16

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1350033111

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The combined effect of the welfare state and medical advances means that more people now live longer lives than ever before in history. As a consequence, the experience of ageing has been transformed. Yet our cultural and social perceptions of ageing remain governed by increasingly dated images and narratives. Growing Old with the Welfare State challenges these stereotypes by bringing together eight previously unpublished stories of ordinary British people born between 1925 and 1945 to show contemporary ageing in a new light. These biographical narratives, six of which were written as part of the Mass Observation Project, reflect on and compare the experience of living in two post-war periods of social change, after the first and second world wars. In doing so, these stories, along with their accompanying contextual chapters, provide a valuable and accessible resource for social historians, and expose both historical and contemporary views of age and ageing that challenge modern assumptions.

Growing Old with the Welfare State
Growing Old with the Welfare State

Author: Nick Hubble

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-05-16

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 135003312X

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The combined effect of the welfare state and medical advances means that more people now live longer lives than ever before in history. As a consequence, the experience of ageing has been transformed. Yet our cultural and social perceptions of ageing remain governed by increasingly dated images and narratives. Growing Old with the Welfare State challenges these stereotypes by bringing together eight previously unpublished stories of ordinary British people born between 1925 and 1945 to show contemporary ageing in a new light. These biographical narratives, six of which were written as part of the Mass Observation Project, reflect on and compare the experience of living in two post-war periods of social change, after the first and second world wars. In doing so, these stories, along with their accompanying contextual chapters, provide a valuable and accessible resource for social historians, and expose both historical and contemporary views of age and ageing that challenge modern assumptions.

Growing Old
Growing Old

Author: Elizabeth S. Johnson

Publisher: New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13:

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Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain
Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain

Author: Charlotte Greenhalgh

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2018-06-15

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0520970802

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As today’s baby boomers reach retirement and old age, this timely study looks back at the first generation who aged in the British welfare state. Using innovative research methods, Charlotte Greenhalgh sheds light on the experiences of elderly people in twentieth-century Britain. She adds further insights from the interviews and photographs of celebrated social scientists such as Peter Townsend, whose work helped transform care of the aged. A comprehensive and sensitive examination of the creative pursuits, family relations, work lives, health, and living conditions of the elderly, Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain charts the determined efforts of aging Britons to shape public understandings of old age in the modern era.

Age in the Welfare State
Age in the Welfare State

Author: Julia Lynch

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-06-05

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1139454951

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This book asks why some countries devote the lion's share of their social policy resources to the elderly, while others have a more balanced repertoire of social spending. Far from being the outcome of demands for welfare spending by powerful age-based groups in society, the 'age' of welfare is an unintended consequence of the way that social programs are set up. The way that politicians use welfare state spending to compete for votes, along either programmatic or particularistic lines, locks these early institutional choices into place. So while society is changing - aging, divorcing, moving in and out of the labor force over the life course in new ways - social policies do not evolve to catch up. The result, in occupational welfare states like Italy, the United States, and Japan, is social spending that favors the elderly and leaves working-aged adults and children largely to fend for themselves.

Growing Old in Cameroon
Growing Old in Cameroon

Author: Charles Che Fonchingong

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 2013-12-11

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0761861262

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This book discusses the problems Cameroon faces in caring for its older population. It also proposes policy options that can make a difference in the lives of older citizens and finds that they are not a burden to society, but rather key players in the development process.

Growing Old in America
Growing Old in America

Author: Beth B. Hess

Publisher: Transaction Publishers

Published:

Total Pages: 638

ISBN-13: 9781412824859

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Modern industrial societies are characterized by long-term declines in fertility and steady increases in life expectancy. Together, these trends result in an aging population. The United States is no exception; since 1969 the median age has risen from 29.4 to a projected 36.4 in the year 2000. This fourth edition of the standard reader on the sociology of aging has been completely revised, with 90 percent new material, to reflect new information and new issues in this rapidly developing field. Students and practicing professionals will find it a lively, accessible overview.

Growing Old in America
Growing Old in America

Author: Beth Hess

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-03-02

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 1000677133

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Modern industrial societies are characterized by long-term declines in fertility and steady increases in life expectancy. Together, these trends result in an aging population. The United States is no exception; since 1969 the median age has risen from 29.4 to a projected 36.4 in the year 2000. This fourth edition of the standard reader on the sociology of aging has been completely revised, with 90 percent new material, to reflect new information and new issues in this rapidly developing field. Students and practicing professionals will find it a lively, accessible overview.

Age in the Welfare State
Age in the Welfare State

Author: Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences Julia Lynch

Publisher:

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 9780511221149

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This book asks why some countries devote the lion's share of their social policy resources to the elderly, while others have a more balanced repertoire of social spending. Far from being the outcome of demands for welfare spending by powerful age-based groups in society, the 'age' of welfare is an unintended consequence of the way that social programs are set up. The way that politicians use welfare state spending to compete for votes, along either programmatic or particularistic lines, locks these early institutional choices into place. So while society is changing - aging, divorcing, moving in and out of the labor force over the life course in new ways - social policies do not evolve to catch up. The result, in occupational welfare states like Italy, the United States, and Japan, is social spending that favors the elderly and leaves working-aged adults and children largely to fend for themselves.