Critical Issues in Aging Policy: Linking Research and Values

By Edgar F. Borgatta and Rhonda J.V. Montgomery

Giving a comprehensive overview of the discipline, this book is designed as a supplementary text for students of social gerontology and ageing policy. @3Highlighting policy implications, specialists consider issues such as: long term care; ways of measuring well-being; social relationships of the elderly; attitudes to retirement; health and crime.

@ ′the book does a good job in prompting deeper consideration of day-to-day issues about elderly people and points up many unexplored areas worthy of research.......This is a useful book, combining much of general interst for staff working with older people with clear and important messages for its target audience of researchers and policy theorists′ @ GPS 3:2

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803928955
• ISBN13: 9780803928954
• Release Date: June 1987
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.