Social Policy and Aging
Subtitle: A Critical Perspective
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: February 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780803973473
Subjects: Care of the elderly; Elderly; Social Science; Medical care; Sociology; Gerontology; Public Policy - Social Policy; Social Science / Gerontology; Government policy; Aging; Older people; United States
First sentence: For nearly three decades, application of the political economy perspective has resulted in a more robust understanding of the issues of health and aging by integrating the approaches of economics, political science, sociology, and gerontology, each of which has proven inadequate when employed in isolation.