Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-319) and index.
Contents
Social care among the elderly: an introduction -- Social care in the United States -- Preferences on the part of the elderly for assistance -- Introduction to the case studies -- Growing older and Jewish in New York City in the 1990s -- The older Latinos of New York City in the 1990s -- Growing older and African American in New York City in the 1990s -- The elderly and the informal social care system of the twenty-first century -- The future of formal community-based