Social policies for the elderly in the third world
By: Martin B. Tracy.
Series: Contributions to the study of aging,; no. 22
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Old age assistance -- Developing countries.; Older people -- Government policy -- Developing countries.
Description: This book introduces a problem-solving model to cross-national studies of social programs for the elderly in economically developing nations - the Third World, a term that is used here only as a designation of unspecified relatively lower levels of industrial and economic development. Current models of cross-national analysis tend to focus on theory testing and description; they fail to provide the practical information that indigenous policymakers need to decide whether another nation's policy, program, or provision is appropriate to their own country.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-166) and index.