Social Policy and Aging
Subtitle: A Critical Perspective
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: February 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780803973466
Subjects: Care of the elderly; Elderly; United States; Services For The Aged; Social Gerontology; Social Science; Sociology; Gerontology; Public Policy - Social Policy; Social Policy; Social Science / Gerontology; Government policy; Aging; Medical care; Older people
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.