ABSTRACT
Includes 16 essays which address many issues from a different perspective suggested by the experience of aging in America. This study explores the political, social, and economic realities which have an impact on Americans as they grow older.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
Introduction to the Political Economy of Aging
chapter Chapter 2|12 pages
Dominant and Competing Paradigms in Gerontology: Towards a Political Economy of Aging
part II|2 pages
Institutions and structured dependency: social control and market economy health care
chapter Chapter 7|27 pages
Medicare and Medicaid: The Process, Value, and Limits of Health Care Reforms
part III|2 pages
Institutions and structured dependency: income, labor and control of capital
part IV|2 pages
Aging as a women’s issue
part V|2 pages
Future Directions in the Politics of Social Policy for the Elderly