num_pages: 576
description: This groundbreaking text is the first to take a life course perspective, examining the relationship between the quality of one's life in old age and ones experiences, earlier choices, opportunities, and constraints. The text gives students a broad background for understanding current policy debates through a distinctive chapter entitled "Old Age and the Welfare State" (Chapter 11) and through boxed essays in every chapter called "An Issue for Public Policy." In addition, coverage of race, class, gender, and culture is integrated throughout..
language: English
title: Aging and the Life Course [with Making the Grade CD-ROM and Powerweb]
titlecomplete: Aging and the Life Course [with Making the Grade CD-ROM and Powerweb]
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 85
publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages