The new politics of old age policy
By: edited by Robert B. Hudson.
Contributors: Hudson, Robert B., 1944-
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; The Johns Hopkins University Press; Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780801894916; 9780801894923
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; Public Policy -- United States; Aged -- United States; Medicaid; Pensions -- United States; Social Security -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contemporary challenges to aging policy / Robert B. Hudson; title: Shifting risk and responsibility : the state and inequality in old age / Madonna Harrington Meyer; title: Aging policy and structural lag / Janet M. Wilmoth; title: What justice requires : normative foundations for U.S. pension reform / John Myles; title: Political power and the baby boomers / Frederick R. Lynch; title: Theoretical approaches to the development of aging policy in the United States / Robert B. Hudson; title: On time and ties : why the life course matters for old age policies / Richard A. Settersten and Molly Trauten; title: Public policies and older populations of color / Jeffrey A. Burr, Jan E. Mutchler, and Kerstin Gerst; title: The oldest old and a long-lived society : challenges for public policy / Judith G. Gonyea; title: Caregiving and the construction of political claims for long-term care policy reform / Sandra R. Levitsky; title: Social security : political resilience in the face of conservative strides / Andrea Louise Campbell and Ryan King; title: Medicare : deservingness encounters cost containment / Kimberly J. Morgan; title: The politics of aging within Medicaid / Colleen M. Grogan and Christina M. Andrews; title: The Older Americans Act and the aging network / Robert B. Hudson; title: New challenges and growing trends in senior housing / Jon Pynoos, Caroline Cicero, and Christy M. Nashita; title: Taxation and the elderly / Christopher Howard; title: Age discrimination in employment / Laurie A. McCann and Cathy Ventrell-Monsees.