| Edition |
Third edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 277 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Contemporary challenges to aging policy / Robert B. Hudson -- The implications of structural lag for old age policy / Janet M. Wilmoth -- Fiscal effects of population aging in the United States / John Gist -- The great divide: elite and mass opinion about social security / Fay Lomax Cook and Rachel L. Moskowitz -- The shifting political construction of older Americans as a target population / Robert B. Hudson and Judith G. Gonyea -- Working, retiring, and the new old age / Sara E. Rix -- Diversity and the economic security of older Americans / Stipica Mudrazija and Jacqueline L. Angel -- The policy challenges of a larger and more diverse oldest-old population / Judith G. Gonyea -- Social security, the great recession, and the entitlements problem / Andrea Louise Campbell -- The medicare challenge: clients, cost controls, and congress / Kimberly J. Morgan -- Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 84? Long-term care challenges for an aging America / Robert Applebaum and Anthony Bardo -- Means-testing of entitlements: good policy? Good politics? / Christopher Howard -- Ageism's many forms: institutional, unintended, and reverse / Tay K. McNamara and John B. Williamson -- Conclusion. The futures of old age politics and policy / Robert B. Hudson. |
| Subject |
Older people -- Government policy -- United States.
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Older people -- Services for -- United States.
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Old age pensions -- United States.
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Medicaid.
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Social security -- United States.
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Old age -- United States.
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Medicaid. (OCoLC)fst01013657
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Old age. (OCoLC)fst01045272
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Old age pensions. (OCoLC)fst01045349
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Older people -- Government policy.
(OCoLC)fst01199109
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Older people -- Services for.
(OCoLC)fst01199127
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Social security. (OCoLC)fst01123077
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Added Author |
Hudson, Robert B., 1944-
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| ISBN |
9781421414867 (hardcover: alkaline paper) |
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9781421414874 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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9781421414881 (electronic) |
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1421414880 (electronic) |
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1421414864 (hardcover: alkaline paper) |
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1421414872 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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