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| Productive aging: 1995 White House Conference on Aging, challenges for public policy and social work practice | | Author(s) | Gerson David, Gina Patterson |
| Journal title | Journal of Gerontological Social Work, vol 27, no 3, 1997 |
| Pages | pp 9-25 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Employment of older people ; Voluntary work [elderly] ; Participation ; Services ; Social policy ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Productive ageing can encompass the paid and unpaid roles of older people, whether or not in continuing employment, doing voluntary work, or simply continuing active participation in society. However, productive ageing still fails to have a clear and comprehensive definition which is embraced by American public policy or society. The author offers a broad definition which embraces two interrelated issues: what contributes to the enhanced quality of life of older people; and the societal benefits of having a large national resource of productive older adults. It considers resolutions from the 1995 White House Conference on Aging (WHCoA) concerned with maximising quality of life. The author concludes that social workers need to advocate changes in public policy which promote the value of productive older adults, and in which ageist attitudes diminish. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980219215 A |
| Classmark | BG: GC: GHH: TMB: I: TM2: 7T |
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