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Genre/Form: | Cross-cultural studies Études transculturelles |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: North American elders. New York : Greenwood Press, 1988 (OCoLC)610175535 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Eloise Rathbone-McCuan; Betty Havens |
ISBN: | 0313254842 9780313254840 |
OCLC Number: | 16088935 |
Description: | xiv, 298 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Foreword : Canadian studies perspectives / Edward J. Miles -- Foreword : Cross-national gerontology / J.A. MacDonnell and Jean M. Maxwell -- I. Demography -- Demographic variations in North America / Leory O. Stone and Susan Fletcher -- II. Social policy -- Social policy in Canada / John Myles -- Social policy in the United States / Robert B. Hudson -- III. Long-term care -- Long-term care in Canada / Neena L. Chappell -- Long-term care in the United States / Laurence G. Branch and Allan R. Meyers -- IV. Chronic mentally ill -- The chronic mentally ill in Canada / Colin M. Smith and Nancy J. Herman -- United States elders with chronic mental disorder / Joan Hashimi -- V. Rural aging -- Aging in rural Canada / Anne Martin Matthews -- Aging in the rural United States / Raymond T. Coward -- VI. Aging veterans -- Aging veterans in Canada / A. Margery Boyce and Ellen M. Gee -- Aging veterans in the United States / Philip G. Weiler -- VII. Native elders -- The impact of government support for Indian culture on Canada's aged Indians / Rosamond M. Vanderburgh -- Indian elderly in the United States / Paul Stuart and Eloise Rathbone-McCuan -- VIII. Cross-national intergenerational families -- Cross-national families : the family experience of American women married to French-Canadian men / Mary R. Murphy Robertson -- Cross-cultural families : the Franco-Americans / Peter Woolfson -- IX. Conclusion -- Future cross-national developments / Eloise Rathbone-McCuan and Betty Havens. |
Series Title: | Contributions to the study of aging, no. 8. |
Responsibility: | edited by Eloise Rathbone-McCuan and Betty Havens. |
Abstract:
This collection of essays provides an analysis of Canadian/U.S. social policy toward aging. Subsequent chapters examine the Canadian and U.S. perspectives on social policy, long-term care, the chronic mentally ill, rural aging, aging veterans, native elders, and cross-national intergenerational families.
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