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Changing attitudes toward aging policy in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s
— a cohort analysis | | Author(s) | Merril Silverstein, Joseph J Angelelli, Tonya M Parrott |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 56B, no 1, January 2001 |
| Pages | pp S36-S43 |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Social policy ; Attitude ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Cross sectional surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Findings from telephone surveys in 1986 and 1997 suggest that the attitudes of Americans have become less supportive of expanding entitlement programmes for older people, and more supportive of cutting their costs and benefits. Between 1987 and 1997, most cohorts - particularly older people - grew more in favour of maintaining Social Security benefit levels, but less in favour of expanding them. Young people tended to be driving the societal shift in attitudes toward decreasing benefits. Indeed, changes in attitude of the general population from 1990 to 1997 are that they feel less strongly that older people are entitled to benefits, and have expressed greater opposition to the associated costs. However, younger people moderated their concerns about costs as they got older, although the young adults in the cohort replacing them had become more critical of the principle of entitlement. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010307227 A |
| Classmark | BG: TM2: DP: TOB: 3KB: 7T |
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