The Social Challenge of Ageing (Routledge Library Editions: Aging)
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- Synopsis
- Although all recorded societies have contained a few people of extreme old age, they have been the exception rather than the rule. The possibility of one fifth of the total population in retirement from active employment would have been unthinkable at the beginning of the twentieth century and even social planning in the 1970s had made no adequate provision for a society in which one in every twenty-five people would be over seventy-five and one in every hundred over eighty-five within less than a decade.
- Copyright:
- 1978
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781040008027
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781032720784, 9781032720869, 9781040007914
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 05/10/24
- Copyrighted By:
- David Hobman
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- David Hobman