The age of dignity : preparing for the elder boom in a changing America / / Ai-jen Poo ; with Ariane Conrad

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787250603321
• Autore: Poo Ai-jen
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, New York : , : The New Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-62097-046-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 361.60973
• Soggetti: Older people - Care - United States; Older people - Nursing home care - United States; Older people - Services for - United States; Population aging - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: INTRODUCTION; PART I; 1 THE ELDER BOOM; 2 THE SANDWICH GENERATION; 3 THE CARING PROFESSIONALS; PART II; 4 WAKING THE CARING MAJORITY; 5 A POLICY OF CARING; AFTERWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; APPENDIX C; NOTES; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHERS
• Sommario/riassunto: By 2035, 11.5 million Americans will be over the age of eighty-five, more than double today's 5 million, living longer than ever before. To enable all of us to age with dignity and security in the face of this coming Age Wave, our society must learn to value the care of our elders. The process of building a culture that supports care is a key component to restoring the American dream, and, as Ai-Jen Poo convincingly argues, will generate millions of new jobs and breath new life into our national ideals of independence, justice, and dignity.This groundbreaking new book from the director of the