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Aspects of ageing
— essays on social policy and old age |
| Author(s) | Michael Bury, John Macnicol |
| Publisher | Royal Holloway & Bedford New College, London, 1990 |
| Pages | 181 pp (Social policy papers no 3) |
| Source | Dept. of Social Policy and Social Science, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | This book explores the sociological and social policy dimensions of the debate over ageing in the United Kingdom (UK). Chapters by different contributors cover a variety of topics, including: the growth of a retirement tradition in the 1950s and 1960s; older age and structured dependency; the cultural construction of ageing; the social and personal problems of widowhood; the economics of state pension funding; images of ageing in popular culture; and characteristics of the oldest old. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-900927001 B |
| Classmark | BG: TM2 |
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