Why survive? : being old in America / Robert N. Butler.

By: Butler, Robert N, 1927-2010
Publisher: New York : Harper & Row, 1975Edition: 1st edDescription: xiii, 496 p. ; 25 cmContent type: text Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0060105917; 9780060105914; 0060908726; 9780060908720; 0060105666 (pbk.); 9780060105662 (pbk.)Subject(s): Older people -- Government policy -- United States | Old age assistance -- United States | Geriatrics -- United StatesAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Why survive?LOC classification: HQ1064.U5 | B87 1975Also issued online.
Contents:
Tragedy of old age in America -- How to grow old and poor in an affluent society -- What about my pension -- The right to work -- No place to live -- No time to wait -- The unfulfilled prescription -- They are only senile -- Houses of death are a lively business -- Victimization of the elderly -- Pacification and the politics of aging -- The gift of life -- Loosening up life -- Growing old absurd -- Appendixes : -- Sources of gerontological and geriatric literature -- Organizations pertaining to the elderly -- Government programs for the elderly -- Pther national organizations with programs in the field of aging.
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Bibliography: p. [471]-482.

Includes index.

Tragedy of old age in America -- How to grow old and poor in an affluent society -- What about my pension -- The right to work -- No place to live -- No time to wait -- The unfulfilled prescription -- They are only senile -- Houses of death are a lively business -- Victimization of the elderly -- Pacification and the politics of aging -- The gift of life -- Loosening up life -- Growing old absurd -- Appendixes : -- Sources of gerontological and geriatric literature -- Organizations pertaining to the elderly -- Government programs for the elderly -- Pther national organizations with programs in the field of aging.

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