The new politics of old age policy
By: edited by Robert B. Hudson
Contributors: Hudson, Robert B., 1944-
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Older people -- Government policy -- United States; Older people -- Services for -- United States; Old age pensions -- United States; Medicaid; Social security -- United States; Old age -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Contemporary challenges to age-based policy / Robert B. Hudson; title: A normative defense of universal age-based public policy / Martha B. Holstein; title: What justice requires : a normative foundation for U.S. pension reform / John Myles; title: Decreasing welfare, increasing old age inequality : whose responsibility is it? / Madonna Harrington Meyer; title: Social Security and the paradoxes of welfare state conservatism / Steven M. Teles; title: When old age begins : implications for health, work, and retirement / Angela M. O'Rand; title: Minority workers and pathways to retirement / Chenoa A. Flippen; title: The oldest old and a long-lived society : challenges for public policy / Judith G. Gonyea; title: Reframing Social Security : cures worse than the disease / Pamela Herd and Eric R. Kingson; title: Sustaining Medicare as an age-related program / Marilyn Moon; title: The politics of aging within Medicaid / Colleen M. Grogan; title: The changing face of senior housing / Jon Pynoos and Christy M. Nishita; title: The contemporary politics of old age policies / Robert H. Binstock; title: Using local tax levies to fund programs for older people : good politics and good policy? / Robert Applebaum ... [et al.]