Aging in Western societies.
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[Chicago]
Univ. of Chicago Press
[©1960]
[Place of publication not identified] : University of Chicago Press, [1960] |
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Table of Contents:
- Aging in Western culture / Ernest W. Burgess
- Population structure and trends / Philip M. Hauser and Raul Vargas
- Employment and retirement / Seymour L. Wolfbein and Ernest W. Burgess
- Income, Maintenance and medical insurance / Wilbur J. Cohen
- Housing and community services / Wilma Donahue
- The health of the aging / Vera J. and Jerome S. Peterson
- The mental health of the aging / Robert W. Kleemeier
- Family structure and relationships / Ernest W. Burgess
- Life beyond family and work / Robert J. Haighurst
- Research on aging / John E. Anderson
- Résumé and implications / Ernest W. Burgess
- SELECTED CASE STUDIES. Old age and invalidity insurance
- Pensioners and medical-care insurance in eleven European countries
- Old people's housework scheme, Exeter, England / prepared by Helen L. Slater
- An important Swedish epidemiological study ; A district mental health service / prepared by Robert W. Kleemeier
- A case study of family relations / prepared by Jean-René Tréanton
- The three-generation rural family in Italy / prepared by Angela Zuccino
- Relations with their children of parents in an old people's home / translated from "Pro senectut"
- Duty of children to support parents / prepared by Max Rheinstein
- Clubs for older people in an English community / prepared by Bertha James
- The Nuffield Foundation and the study of aging / prepared by John C. Beavan
- The condition of the West Germany pensioner before the social reform / prepared by Ludwig von Friedeburg
- SELECTED STATISTICAL TABLES : COMPARATIVE DATA ON SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS AND THE AGING IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. Area, density, population, and latest population estimate
- Percentage of persons aged 65 and over of all persons of the same sex, in or around 1850, 1900, and 1950
- Expectation of life at specified ages for each sex
- Specific death rates by age for males
- Specific death rates by age for females
- Death rates by marital status for males 65 and over
- Death rates by marital status for females 65 and over
- Economically active population 65 and over for both sexes
- Economically active males engaged in agriculture
- National and per capita income, 1949, in national currencies and United States dollars
- Changes in the cost-of-living index, 1948-1958
- Circulation of daily newspapers and per capita newspaper consumption
- Number of radio receivers and receivers per 1000 population
- annual per capita attendance at cinemas
- Estimated per capita consumption of commercial sources of energy, 1937 and 1956.