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Age integration or age conflict as society ages?
Author(s)	Anne Foner
Journal title	The Gerontologist, vol 40, no 3, June 2000
Pages	pp 272-276
Keywords	Integration [elderly] ; Ageism ; The Family ; Social class ; Social policy.
Annotation	A major concern about population ageing is that it will produce conflicts between working-age and older people. The author argues that although age conflicts could counteract trends toward age integration, there is an opposite outcome. This is, that age integration will offset tendencies to age conflicts. The article considers age inequalities as a basis of age conflicts; the effects of macro- and micro-level structures on public policies; the role of the family; and the intersection of age and class. This is one of a series of eleven essays originally presented at sessions on age integration at both the International Sociological Association meeting in Montreal and the American Sociological Association meeting in San Francisco in 1998, and also adapted from a working paper issued by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) in May 1999. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-000717220 A
Classmark	F:TO: B:TOB: SJ: T: TM2
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