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Title Ethnicity and aging : theory, research, and policy / Donald E. Gelfand, Alfred J. Kutzik, editors ; with 25 contributors.

Publication Info. New York : Springer Pub. Co., [1979]
©1979

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Description xii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Springer series on adulthood and aging ; v. 5
Springer series on adulthood and aging ; v. 5.
Note "Most of the chapters ... originally prepared for the National Conference on Ethnicity and Aging held at the University of Maryland in May 1978."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : focuses and issues / Donald E. Gelfand and Alfred J. Jutzik -- Theory and policy perspectives -- Ethnicity and aging : problems and issues in current social science inquiry / Vern L. Bengtson -- American social provision for the aged: an historical perspective / Alfred J. Kutzik -- Oh where, oh where has ethnicity gone? / Irving Kenneth Zola -- Reflections on old age, ethnicity, and death / Robert Kastenbaum -- Fatalism in response to stress among the minority aged / Raju Varghese and Fred Medinger -- Culture, ethnicity, and policy for the aged / James E. Trela and Jay H. Sololovsky -- Politics of aging and ethnicity / William Bechill -- [Ethnic families and the aged] -- The informal support system of New York's inner city elderly : is ethnicity a factor? / Marjorie H. Cantor -- Aging in the Chicano context / David Maldonado, Jr. -- Exiled Americans : the plight of the Indian aged in the United States / Marilyn R. Block -- Disengagement and aging among the Issei / Darrel Montero -- Aging in the Jewish family and the Mormon family / Donald E. Gelfand and Jody K. Olsen -- [Research on ethnicity and aging] -- Personality change across the second half of life : findings from a study of Irish, Italian, and Polish-American men and women / Bertram J. Cohler and Morton A. Lieberman -- Use of informal and formal supports by white ethnic aged / David Guttmann -- Emotional needs of elderly Americans of central and eastern European background / Danuta Mostwin -- Well-being and fear of crime among the Black elderly / John Lewis McAdoo -- Future pension status of the Black elderly / Donald C. Snyder -- Health services and the Puerto Rican elderly / Ruth E. Zambrana, Rolando Merino, and Sarah Santana -- Neighborhood capacity building and the ethnic aged / David E. Biegel and Wendy R. Sherman -- Ethnicity as a factor in the institutionalization of the ethnic elderly / Elizabeth W. Markson -- Conclusion : the continuing significance of ethnicity / Doanld E. Gelfand and Alfred J. Kutzik.
Form Also issued online.
Subject Older people -- United States -- Congresses.
Ethnicity -- United States -- Congresses.
Older people -- Family relationships -- Congresses.
Older people -- Services for -- United States -- Congresses.
Aging. (DNLM)D000375
Ethnicity. (DNLM)D005006
Geriatrics. (DNLM)D005853
Social Planning. (DNLM)D012939
United States. (DNLM)D014481
Ethnicity. (OCoLC)fst00916034
Older people. (OCoLC)fst01199093
Older people -- Family relationships. (OCoLC)fst01199108
Older people -- Services for. (OCoLC)fst01199127
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Congress. (DNLM)D016423
Conference papers and proceedings. (OCoLC)fst01423772
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Gelfand, Donald E.
Kutzik, Alfred J.
National Conference on Ethnicity and Aging (1978 : University of Maryland)
Other Form: Online version: Ethnicity and aging. New York : Springer Pub. Co., ©1979 (OCoLC)562592141
ISBN 0826127703
9780826127709
0826127711 (pbk.)
9780826127716 (pbk.)
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