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The Privatization of Care
Nursing homes are where some of the most vulnerable live and work. In too many homes, the conditions of work make it difficult to make care as good as it can be. For the last eight …
Age and the Reach of Sociological Imagination
The dominant narratives of both science and popular culture typically define aging and human development as self-contained individual matters, failing to recognize the degree to …
Safeguarding Social Security for Future Generations
This book offers a unique multigenerational approach to saving Social Security. Public programs have adapted to societal aging, but fears overwhelm hopes for Social Security’s …
Ageing in Place in Urban Environments
Ageing in Place in Urban Environments considers together two major trends influencing economic and social life: population ageing on the one side and urbanisation on the other.Both …
Care Justice
This book develops a care justice framework to critique and disrupt current policies and reframe a policy blueprint for a just organization of care for unpaid family caregivers and …
When Strangers Become Family
As the 21st Century unfolds, the traditional welfare state that evolved during the 20th Century faces serious threats to the solidarity that social programs were meant to …
Why Place Matters
Why Place Matters reassesses what is known and traditionally understood about the relationship older adults have with place over time and in later life. Building from notions that …
Long Lives are for the Rich
Long Lives Are for the Rich is the title of a silent ominous program that affects the lives of millions of people. In all developed countries disadvantaged and, especially, poor …