Social policy & aging : a critical perspective / / Carroll L. Estes and associates

• Autore: Estes Carroll L
• Pubblicazione: Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Sage Publications, c2001
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 286 p.) : ill
• Disciplina: 305.26/0973
• Soggetto topico: Older people - United States; Aging - United States; Older people - Government policy - United States; Older people - Medical care - United States; Social stratification - United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-270) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter 3. The Medicalization and Commodification of Aging and the Privatization and Rationalization of Old Age PolicyThe Biomedicalization of Aging; The Commodification of Old Age and the Privatization of Medical Care; The Rationalization of Medical Care; Implications; Conclusion; Chapter 4. The Transformation of the Nonprofit Sector: Systemic Crisis and the Political Economy of Aging Services; Shocks to the Nonprofit Sector: Historical Transformation, 1980 to the Present; Crisis Theory; Theorizing the Nonprofit Sector From a Political Economy Framework; Health and Human Services ; The Nonprofit Sector and Crisis: HypothesesConclusion; Chapter 5. Crisis, the Welfare State, and Aging: Ideology and Agency in the Social Security Privatization Debate; Creating a Crisis; The Privatization of Social Security; Media, Think Tanks, and the Disparate Influence of Pro-Privatizert; Capital and the Attack on Social Security; Conclusion; Chapter 6. Sex and Gender in the Political Economy of Aging; The Political Economy of Gender and Old Age; The Situation of Older Women; The Gendered State; Aging and State Theory; Women's Roles, Social Institutions, and Social Policy; Conclusion ; Chapter 7. Inequality and Aging: The Creation of DependencyCreating Dependency; Population Growth and the Dependency Ratio; Economic and Social Well-Being; Social Class and Health; Social Support and Health; Mortality; Morbidity; Use of Health Care; Conclusion; Chapter 8. The Medical-Industrial Complex and the Aging Enterprise; The Health Care System; The Role of Capital and the Marketplace; The Role of the State; The U.S. Medical-Industrial Complex in a Global Context; Conclusion; Chapter 9. A Political Economy Critique of ""Productive Aging"" ; The Development of the Productive Aging PerspectiveA Critique; Conclusion; Chapter 10. The Underdevelopment of Community-Based Services in the U. S. Long-Term Care System: A Structural Analysis; Aging and Disability in the United States; Long-Term Care and Community-Based Care; Financial and Industrial Capital; The Role of the State; Professionals and Delivery Systems in Long-Term Care; Conclusion: The Public, Users, and Family Members; Chapter 11. The Political Economy of Health Work; Health Work in the Capitalist Economy; Health Work Policy Environment: The Role of the State ; Conclusion: A New Perspective on Health Work
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume provides a comprehensive treatment of the political economy of aging by a scholar widely credited as the founder and key thinker of this field.
• Altri titoli varianti: Social policy and aging
• Titolo autorizzato: Social policy & aging
• ISBN: 1-5063-3271-4; 0-8039-7346-2; 1-322-41771-7; 1-4522-6702-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910806934503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II