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A history of aging in America surveys and compares actualities and attitudes in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries and suggests practical improvements on the current inadequate system of pensions, social security, medicare, and other programs.

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"The only major interpretive study of a very important and, needless to say, timely subject...deserves a wide audience, not only among historians, but among members of the helping professions and all others concerned with the welfare of our senior citizens."--Journal of American History

Growing Old in America

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    A Paperback by David Hackett Fischer

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      Publisher: Oxford University Press
      Publication Date: 10/26/1978 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780195023664, 978-0195023664
      ISBN10: 0195023668
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      Geriatric medicine Age groups: the elderly / old age Care of the elderly

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A history of aging in America surveys and compares actualities and attitudes in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries and suggests practical improvements on the current inadequate system of pensions, social security, medicare, and other programs.

      Trade Review
      "The only major interpretive study of a very important and, needless to say, timely subject...deserves a wide audience, not only among historians, but among members of the helping professions and all others concerned with the welfare of our senior citizens."--Journal of American History

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