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Aiding and Aging: The Coming Crisis in Support for the Elderly by Kin and State: Contributions to the Study of Aging

Autor John Mogey
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 iul 1990 – vârsta până la 17 ani
Citizens of all societies age both as biological beings and as members of households in the open community. Through joining a series of essays and survey analyses, John Mogey has constructed a book that examines the way aging affects those who are growing older as well as the institutions of their society. To study the relationships between aiding the elderly and the aging process, two very different societies--the United States and Hungary--were chosen for comparison. In both societies, support for the elderly comes from formal institutional programs as well as informal family arrangements, and it seems equally true in both cases that the elderly get most of their support through kinship assistance. Throughout the book, the focus remains on the need to encourage the persistence of the kinship system, and the necessity of public programs to actively support the maintenance of households.The volume is structured in three distinct sections: Households, Amity, and Lifestyle; Individuals, Kinship, and Networks; and Kinship, Lifestyle, and Policy. In each section, essays concentrate on the usual operations within communities that have elderly people in them, drawing data from the United States, Hungary (including information from a unique empirical study in Budapest), and six other countries. The essays also address the variety of demands that the kinship system places on public programs. Aiding and aging are common structural problems in all modern societies, and although each society will develop different policy solutions, all will use elements from the structures described in this collection. The book will be an important resource for courses in social work, social gerontology, and sociology, as well as an important addition to university and public libraries.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780313273155
ISBN-10: 0313273154
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Seria Contributions to the Study of Aging

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

JOHN MOGEY is an Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Arizona State University. He is the author and editor of numerous books on sociology and aging including Social Change in Urban America and A Social History of American Family Sociology, 1865-1940.

Cuprins

IntroductionHouseholds, Amity, LifestyleHousehold Composition among the Elderly in the United States and Hungary: A ComparisonThe Role of the Family in the Care of the Elderly in HungaryThe Aged in the United States: Kinship and HouseholdKinship Patterns and Household Composition among Elderly Hungarian Women, 1984With Whom Do the Elderly Live and Migrate? A Comparison between the United States, Australia, and ItalyIndividuals, Kinship, NetworksSex Differences in Kinship Interactions in HungaryThe Family and the State: Rising Hungarian Death RatesFamily Conditions of Old Persons in Hungary: Demographic AspectsKinship and Aging in IrelandBrothers' Keepers: Situating Kinship Relations in Broader Networks of Social SupportKinship, Lifestyle, PolicyFamily Life Cycles: Their Effects on Old People's Family RelationsThe Policy Aspects of AgingSocial Roles, Kinship Resources, and the Health of Aged Family Members in the United States and HungaryVariations in Support Networks: Implications for Social PolicyBibliographyIndex