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| Material Type: | Conference publication |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sara Kiesler; James N Morgan; Valerie Kincade Oppenheimer; Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences (U.S.). Committee on Aging.; National Institute on Aging. |
| ISBN: | 0120400022 9780120400027 0120400227 9780120400225 |
| OCLC Number: | 7923741 |
| Notes: | Papers from a workshop entitled "The elderly of the future," held May 3-5, 1979, in Annapolis, Md., which was organized by the Committee on Aging, National Research Council and sponsored by the National Institute on Aging. |
| Description: | xxiv, 631 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Overview on aging : some biomedical, social, and behavioral perspectives / Robert N. Butler -- Anticipating the future. The kin of the aged in A.D. 2000 : the chickens come home to roost / E.A. Hammel, K.W. Wachter, C.K. McDaniel -- The aging population, social trends, and changes of behavior and belief / Sara B. Kiesler -- An epidemiologic gaze into the crystal ball of the elderly / Sidney Cobb, John Fulton -- Government and policy. Conservative weather in a liberalizing climate : change in selected NORC general social survey items, 1972-1978 / James A. Davis -- Political characteristics of elderly cohorts in the twenty-first century / Neal E. Cutler -- The welfare state and the political mobilization of the elderly / Richard G. Fox -- Life-stage effects on attitude change, especially among the elderly / David O. Sears -- Aging and opportunities for elective office / Joseph A. Schlesinger, Mildred Schlesinger -- Organizations. The aging of work organizations : impact on organization and employment practice / Shelby Stewman. (cont.) Some consequences of organizational demography : potential impacts of an aging work force on formal organizations / Jeffrey Pfeffer -- Reform movements and organizations : the case of aging / W. Richard Scott -- Social and emotional resources. Dilemmas of social support : parallels between victimization and aging / Christine Dunkel-Schetter, Camille B. Wortman -- Convoys of social support : a life-course approach / Robert L. Kahn, Toni C. Antonucci -- The role of expectancy in adaptation to aging / Robert R. Sears -- The self-concept and old age / Joel Cooper, George R. Goethals -- Old age and age differentiation : anthropological speculations on age as a social border / Jennie Keith -- Social conditions and social problems. The living arrangements of the elderly in the near future / Beth J. Soldo -- The changing housing and neighborhood environment of the elderly : a look at the year 2000 / Raymond J. Struyk -- The labor market behavior of older people : a framework for analysis / Marjorie Honig, Giora Hanoch. (cont.) Women's employment and its implications for the status of the elderly of the future / Judith Treas -- Behavioral and social science research and the future elderly / James N. Morgan. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Sara B. Kiesler, James N. Morgan, Valerie Kincade Oppenheimer, editors ; James G. March, editor-in-chief. |
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