Includes 16 essays which address many issues from a different perspective suggested by the experience of aging in America. This study explores the political, so

This unique volume brings together 20 critical essays on aging within the context of the broad social, political, and economic factors that help shape and deter

Between 1870 and 1940, life expectancy in the United States skyrocketed while the percentage of senior citizens age sixty-five and older more than doubled—a p

Guide with more than two thousand bibliographic entries and cross-references. It includes journal articles, book chapters, essays, and doctoral dissertations, a