Demography of aging
By: Linda G. Martin and Samuel H. Preston, editors ; Committee on Population, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council.
Contributors: Martin, Linda G.; Preston, Samuel H.; National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Population.
Publisher: National Academy Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
Subjects: Older people.; Demography.; Retirement.; Older people -- Health and hygiene.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Samuel H. Preston and Linda G. Martin; title: The formal demography of population aging, transfers, and the economic life cycle / Ronald D. Lee; title: Retirement and labor force behavior of the elderly / Joseph F. Quinn and Richard V. Burkhauser; title: Income, wealth, and intergenerational economic relations of the aged / Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Timothy M. Smeeding; title: The elderly and their kin : patterns of availability and access / Douglas A. Wolf; title: Care of the elderly : division of labor among the family, market, and state / Beth J. Soldo and Vicki A. Freedman; title: Medical demography : interaction of disability dynamics and mortality / Kenneth G. Manton and Eric Stallard; title: Socioeconomic differences in adult mortality and health status / Samuel H. Preston and Paul Taubman; title: Geographic concentration, migration, and population redistribution among the elderly / Frank D. Bean, George C. Myers, Jacqueline L. Angel, and Omer R. Galle; title: Research on the demography of aging in developing countries / Linda G. Martin and Kevin Kinsella.