TY  - BOOK
AU  - Achenbaum,W.Andrew
ED  - Project Muse.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Old Age in the New Land: The American Experience since 1790 
SN  - 9781421435077
AV  - HQ1064.U5 A26 1978
U1  - 301.43/5/0973 18
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - fast
KW  - Older people
KW  - Alter
KW  - swd
KW  - Opinion publique
KW  - ©Etats-Unis
KW  - Personnes ©ag©ees
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Geriatrics
KW  - history
KW  - Aged
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - USA
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License; Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program; Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index; pt. I: Changing perceptions of the aged's roles in nineteenth-century America -- The usefulness of old age -- Variations on a theme -- The obsolescence of old age -- pt. II: The demographic and socioeconomic dimensions of old age -- The rhetoric and realities of growing old diverge in nineteenth-century America -- Old age becomes "modern" in twentieth-century America -- pt. III: Contemporary old age in historical perspective -- Old age becomes a national problem -- Social Security: A novel solution for the problem of America's aged -- Old age in the United States since Social Security; Open Access
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/72152/
ER  -