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Author Achenbaum, W. Andrew.

Title Old age in the new land : the American experience since 1790 / W. Andrew Achenbaum.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1978]
©1978

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  301.43 A177O    Check Shelf
Description xii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents pt. I: Changing perceptions of the aged's roles in nineteenth-century America -- The usefulness of old age -- Variations on a theme -- The obsolescence of old age -- pt. II: The demographic and socioeconomic dimensions of old age -- The rhetoric and realities of growing old diverge in nineteenth-century America -- Old age becomes "modern" in twentieth-century America -- pt. III: Contemporary old age in historical perspective -- Old age becomes a national problem -- Social Security: A novel solution for the problem of America's aged -- Old age in the United States since Social Security.
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 219-228.
Subject Older people.
Public opinion -- United States.
Older people.
Geriatrics -- United States -- history.
ISBN 080182107X
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