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Author: Deborah Carr
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Imprint: Russell Sage Foundation
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.60cm
Weight: 0.522kg
ISBN: 9780871540348
ISBN 10: 0871540347
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 22 January 2019
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General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Deborah Carr provides an engaging and clearly written analysis of the key questions and controversies driving social science aging research. Golden Years? is essential reading for everyone from those engaged in this research to students who are being exposed to the topic for the first time. --PAMELA HERD, professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University Comprehensive, cogent, and carefully researched, Golden Years? provides a window onto the realities, risks, and disparities confronting the burgeoning numbers moving to and through life after age sixty-five. But Deborah Carr also showcases possibilities--ways governments, communities, and families can rewrite the scripts of later adulthood in ways that promote greater equality and life quality. This book is must reading for understanding both aging and our aging society--for individuals, family members, students, scholars, and policy makers. An instant classic! --PHYLLIS MOEN, director, Life Course Center and McKnight Endowed Presidential Chair in Sociology, University of Minnesota
Comprehensive, cogent, and carefully researched, Golden Years? provides a window onto the realities, risks, and disparities confronting the burgeoning numbers moving to and through life after age sixty-five. But Deborah Carr also showcases possibilities--ways governments, communities, and families can rewrite the scripts of later adulthood in ways that promote greater equality and life quality. This book is must reading for understanding both aging and our aging society--for individuals, family members, students, scholars, and policy makers. An instant classic! --PHYLLIS MOEN, director, Life Course Center and McKnight Endowed Presidential Chair in Sociology, University of Minnesota Deborah Carr provides an engaging and clearly written analysis of the key questions and controversies driving social science aging research. Golden Years? is essential reading for everyone from those engaged in this research to students who are being exposed to the topic for the first time. --PAMELA HERD, professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
Author Information
Deborah Carr is professor and chair of sociology at Boston University.
