The New Aging: Politics and Change in America

by Fernando M. Torres-Gil and Fernando Torres Gil

Book Overview

This most timely, authoritative, and insightful book provides a new framework for understanding the circumstances currently surrounding America's elderly. It establishes the important foundation of three key forces which are changing the national perspective on the aging. They are: generational claims on the government to respond to social needs; diversity in aging populations; and increasing longevity. Torres-Gil provides a context, supported...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865690367
• ISBN13: 9780865690363
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"