Description |
xii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Springer series on adulthood and aging ; v. 5 |
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Springer series on adulthood and aging ; v. 5.
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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.
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Ethnicity -- United States -- Congresses.
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Older people -- Family relationships -- Congresses.
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Older people -- Services for -- United States -- Congresses.
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Aging. (DNLM)D000375
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Ethnicity. (DNLM)D005006
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Geriatrics. (DNLM)D005853
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Social Planning. (DNLM)D012939
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United States. (DNLM)D014481
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Ethnicity. (OCoLC)fst00916034
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Older people. (OCoLC)fst01199093
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Older people -- Family relationships.
(OCoLC)fst01199108
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Older people -- Services for.
(OCoLC)fst01199127
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Genre/Form |
Congress. (DNLM)D016423
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Conference papers and proceedings. (OCoLC)fst01423772
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Added Author |
Gelfand, Donald E.
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Kutzik, Alfred J.
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National Conference on Ethnicity and Aging (1978 : University of Maryland)
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Other Form: |
Online version: Ethnicity and aging. New York : Springer Pub. Co., ©1979 (OCoLC)562592141 |
ISBN |
0826127703 |
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9780826127709 |
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0826127711 (pbk.) |
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9780826127716 (pbk.) |
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