The New Aging: Politics and Change in America
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The New Aging: Politics and Change in America
The New Aging: Politics and Change in America

The New Aging: Politics and Change in America

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Fernando Torres Gil (Author)  

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This most timely, authoritative, and insightful book provides a new framework for understanding the circumstances currently surrounding America's elderly. It establishes the important foundation of three key forces which are changing the national perspective on the aging. They are: generational claims on the government to respond to social needs; diversity in aging populations; and increasing longevity. Torres-Gil provides a context, supported by informative background material, for recognizing the significant demographic changes being experienced in the United States. The work considers the policy issues, decisions, controversies, and choices now associated with aging and demonstrates how the perception of the elderly has changed from the 1960s and 1970s to today. It asks what is fair in the allocation of public and private resources to the elderly. How does the nation pay for services? How do we make and implement the political and economic decisions with which a government and a society are now faced? Torres-Gil examines the ability of the government and the active labor force to support a large elderly population and urges a change in the current delivery of services and benefits. He addresses all the essential issues necessary to avoid inter-generational conflict--including comprehensive planning, the building of social consensus, and inter-generational coalitions.
FERNANDO M. TORRES-GIL is President of the American Society on Aging and is currently Professor of Social Welfare at the University of California, Los Angeles. He previously was a Professor of Gerontology and Public Administration in the Andrus Gerontology Center at the University of Southern California. He has served as Special Assistant to two Secretaries of the Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Torres-Gil was a delegate to two White House Conferences on Aging and was Director of the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Aging.
  • Contributor: Fernando Torres Gil
  • Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
  • ISBN13: 9780865690356
  • Number of Pages: 224
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • Release Date: 1991-11-30
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: FERNANDO M. TORRES-GIL is President of the American Society on Aging and is currently Professor of Social Welfare at the University of California, Los Angeles. He previously was a Professor of Gerontology and Public Administration in the Andrus Gerontology Center at the University of Southern California. He has served as Special Assistant to two Secretaries of the Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Torres-Gil was a delegate to two White House Conferences on Aging and was Director of the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Aging.

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