?[Editors Browne and Olson] and nine other authors, mostly academics, attempt to fill the gap [a neglect of the political dimensions of aging issues] with ten well-documented chapters, analyzing aging programs and policies of recent decades. ... The overall theme is that, although older Americans have emerged as a distinctive political force, the fragmentation of the special interest groups that affect to speak for them, when set against the fragmented nature of the American political system, results in complex, widely divergent, and little understood political repercussions on which research is in its infancy. The evaluation and prognoses of the Binstock school are both realistic and pessimistic, seeing present programs as deficient and bound to worsen in a continuing climate of fiscal constraints. Intended as an introduction for readers new to the field of aging, this collection has many merits.?-Choice
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Laura Katz Olson is AGF Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Lehigh University. To date, she has published nine nonfiction books on the U.S. health system and long-term care politics and policy. Elder Care Journey, which relates her personal experiences as a caregiver for her mother, won a Gold Medal in the 2017 Living Now Book award competition. Olson has served on the American Political Science Council and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Critical Political Science. In 2009, she received the Charles A. McCoy Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Hardcover. Zustand: new. Hardcover. ?[Editors Browne and Olson] and nine other authors, mostly academics, attempt to fill the gap [a neglect of the political dimensions of aging issues] with ten well-documented chapters, analyzing aging programs and policies of recent decades. . The overall theme is that, although older Americans have emerged as a distinctive political force, the fragmentation of the special interest groups that affect to speak for them, when set against the fragmented nature of the American political system, results in complex, widely divergent, and little understood political repercussions on which research is in its infancy. The evaluation and prognoses of the Binstock school are both realistic and pessimistic, seeing present programs as deficient and bound to worsen in a continuing climate of fiscal constraints. Intended as an introduction for readers new to the field of aging, this collection has many merits.?-Choice This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780313228551
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