Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION: Classifying Society's Superannuated
- CHAPTER ONE Aging in Colonial America
- CHAPTER TWO Social Realities and Perceptions of Old Age in the Nineteenth Century
- CHAPTER THREE Medical Models of Growing Old
- CHAPTER FOUR Treating the Postclimacteric Stage
- CHAPTER FIVE Institutionalizing the Elderly
- CHAPTER SIX The Pension Barrier
- CONCLUSION: Old Age in a Bureaucratic Society
- Notes
- A Note on Secondary Sources
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION: Classifying Society's Superannuated
- CHAPTER ONE Aging in Colonial America
- CHAPTER TWO Social Realities and Perceptions of Old Age in the Nineteenth Century
- CHAPTER THREE Medical Models of Growing Old
- CHAPTER FOUR Treating the Postclimacteric Stage
- CHAPTER FIVE Institutionalizing the Elderly
- CHAPTER SIX The Pension Barrier
- CONCLUSION: Old Age in a Bureaucratic Society
- Notes
- A Note on Secondary Sources
- Index
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- Beyond Sixty-FiveThe Dilemma of Old Age in America's Past, pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1983