Our Aging Society
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Published: April 1986
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780039303341
Subjects: Aging - General; Gerontology; Sociology
First sentence: WRITERS OFTEN USE THE MYTHS and images of youth and age' that are commonplace in descriptions of human development to describe historical circumstances; for more than two centuries, this language of aging has been invoked to interpret American history.