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As today's baby boomers reach retirement and old age, this timely study looks back at the first generation who aged in the British welfare state. Using innovative research methods, Charlotte Greenhalgh sheds light on the experiences of elderly people in twentieth-century Britain. She adds further insights from the interviews and photographs of celebrated social scientists such as Peter Townsend, whose work helped transform care of the aged. A comprehensive and sensitive examination of the creative pursuits, family relations, work lives, health, and living conditions of the elderly, Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain charts the determined efforts of aging Britons to shape public understandings of old age in the modern era.

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Aging and Twentieth-Century Britain
1. Experts and the Elderly: Social Research on Old Age
2. Talking with Peter Townsend: Elderly Britons at Home
3. Into the Institution: Residential Care for the Aged
4. “Making the Best of My Appearance”: Grooming in Old Age
5. Games with Time: Autobiography and Aging
Epilogue

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Aging in TwentiethCentury Britain

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 15 June 2018
      ISBN-13 9780520298798
      978-0520298798
      ISBN-10 0520298799
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      Age groups: the elderly / old age

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      As today's baby boomers reach retirement and old age, this timely study looks back at the first generation who aged in the British welfare state. Using innovative research methods, Charlotte Greenhalgh sheds light on the experiences of elderly people in twentieth-century Britain. She adds further insights from the interviews and photographs of celebrated social scientists such as Peter Townsend, whose work helped transform care of the aged. A comprehensive and sensitive examination of the creative pursuits, family relations, work lives, health, and living conditions of the elderly, Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain charts the determined efforts of aging Britons to shape public understandings of old age in the modern era.

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations
      Acknowledgments

      Introduction: Aging and Twentieth-Century Britain
      1. Experts and the Elderly: Social Research on Old Age
      2. Talking with Peter Townsend: Elderly Britons at Home
      3. Into the Institution: Residential Care for the Aged
      4. “Making the Best of My Appearance”: Grooming in Old Age
      5. Games with Time: Autobiography and Aging
      Epilogue

      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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