Our Aging Society : : Paradox and Promise

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Introduction : squaring the pyramid / Alan Pifer & Lydia Bronte -- The aging of "The first new nation" / W. Andrew Achenbaum -- Changing meanings of age in the aging society / Bernice L. Neugarten & Dail A. Neugarten -- Longevity and social structure : the potential of the added years / Matilda White Riley & John W. Riley, Jr. -- Demographic dimensions of an aging population / Jacob S. Siegel & Cynthia M. Taeuber -- Sex and gender in the aging society / Alice S. Rossi -- The family : women and grandparents as kin-keepers / Gunhild O. Hagestad -- Children : treasured resource or forgotten minority? / Harold A. Richman & Matthew W. Stagner -- Outlook for the black family / Rose C. Gibson -- Education as a lifelong process / Harry R. Moody -- Hispanics : a special challenge / Fernando Torres-Gil -- Will the young support the old? / Edward A. Wynne -- The process of aging : growing up and growing old / James E. Birren -- Medicine : the life and death of Oliver Shay / Jerome L. Avorn -- Paying the health-care bills of an aging population / Karen Davis -- Health care in the aging society : a moral dilemma / Daniel Callahan -- Work and retirement in an older society / Malcolm H. Morrison -- Economic consequences of population aging / John L. Palmer & Stephanie G. Gould -- The public policy response / Alan Pifer.

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