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| Dignity and old age | | Author(s) | Robert Disch, Rose Dobrof, Harry R Moody |
| Journal title | Journal of Gerontological Social Work, vol 29, nos 2/3, 1998 |
| Pages | 170 pp |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Services ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Conference proceedings ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This issue of the Journal of Gerontological Social Work (and also published as a monograph by the Haworth Press) presents papers from a one-day conference on "Dignity and Aging", supported by the Jarvie Commonweal Fund and co-sponsored by the Brookdale Center on Aging of Hunter College, New York. The Conference brought together gerontologists along with practitioners from a variety of fields, to examine a central, if overlooked idea: the meaning of dignity and its implications for how we look upon old age and older people. A number of questions are posed by those who deliberated in Part I about the meaning of dignity and age, for instance: does age in itself convey some kind of dignity or entitlement to respect? Questions concerning dignity also have implications for how we treat older people at the level of practice - particularly in health care and social services - and also for policies concerning retirement and entitlement to benefit. These are examined in the papers in Part II. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980903227 A |
| Classmark | BG: I: TOB: 6M: 7T |
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