Description: Further DetailsTitle: Aging in AmericaCondition: NewISBN-10: 0520301293EAN: 9780520301290ISBN: 9780520301290Publisher: University of California PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/14/2023Description: The aging of America will reshape how we live and will transform nearly every aspect of contemporary society. Renowned life course sociologist Deborah Carr provides a lively, nuanced, and timely portrait of aging in the United States. The US population is older than ever before, raising new challenges for families, caregivers, health care systems, and social programs like Social Security and Medicare. Organized in seven chapters, Aging in America covers these topics: the history of aging and the development of theoretical approacheshow cultural changes shape our views on agingthe demographic characteristics of older adults todayolder adults' family lives and social relationshipsthe health of older adults and social disparities in who gets sickhow public policies affect the well-being of older adults and their familieshow baby boomers, Gen Xers, and millennials will experience old age Drawing on state-of-the-art data, current events, and pop culture, this portrait of an aging population challenges outdated myths and vividly shows how future cohorts of older adults will differ from the generations before them.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 15mmItem Weight: 318gAuthor: Deborah CarrGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, Personal DevelopmentBook Series: Sociology in the Twenty-First CenturyRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Aging in America
Title: Aging in America
ISBN-10: 0520301293
EAN: 9780520301290
ISBN: 9780520301290
Release Date: 02/14/2023
Release Year: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Sociology in the Twenty-First Century
Book Title: Aging in America
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: Demography, Sociology / General, Sociology / Marriage & Family
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science
Item Weight: 11.2 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Deborah Carr
Item Width: 6 in
Book Series: Sociology in the Twenty-First Century Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
