Age or Need?: Public Policies for Older People

by Bernice L. Neugarten

Book Overview

Should benefits for older people be based on age or need? Do programmes that serve only older people people deflect resources that should go to other people? Some of the contributors to this volume argue that social service programmes should be based on need, rather than defined groups of people. Apart from anything else, age-based programmes confirm negative stereotypes of older people, and lump them into an undifferentiated group. But would the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803919093
• ISBN13: 9780803919099
• Release Date: December 1982
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.