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



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Autore: Poo Ai-jen Visualizza persona
Titolo: The age of dignity : preparing for the elder boom in a changing America / / Ai-jen Poo ; with Ariane Conrad Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, New York : , : The New Press, , 2015
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
Disciplina: 361.60973
Soggetto topico: Older people - Care - United States
Older people - Nursing home care - United States
Older people - Services for - United States
Population aging - United States
Persona (resp. second.): ConradAriane
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
Titolo autorizzato: The age of dignity  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-62097-046-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910787250603321
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