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The Handbook on the Aged is a fascinating and useful compilation of data. As a current source, it will be useful on reference shelves; however, those who want an overview of a topic may wish to read entire chapters. As a systematic effort to present details on segments of the elderly population, it effectively refutes the view that all old people are much the same. -Reference Books Bulletin ?The Handbook on the Aged is a fascinating and useful compilation of data. As a current source, it will be useful on reference shelves; however, those who want an overview of a topic may wish to read entire chapters. As a systematic effort to present details on segments of the elderly population, it effectively refutes the view that all old people are much the same.?-Reference Books Bulletin

?The Handbook on the Aged is a fascinating and useful compilation of data. As a current source, it will be useful on reference shelves; however, those who want an overview of a topic may wish to read entire chapters. As a systematic effort to present details on segments of the elderly population, it effectively refutes the view that all old people are much the same.?-Reference Books Bulletin

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ERDMAN B. PALMORE is Professor Emeritus of Medical Sociology at the Duke University Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development. His articles have appeared in journals such as The Gerontologist, Research on Aging, Journal of Gerontology and Journal of Applied Gerontology. He has authored or edited fifteen books, including the International Handbook on Aging (Greenwood Press, 1980), and the Handbook on the Aged in the United States (Greenwood Press, 1984). He is the Greenwood Press Series Editor for Bibliographies and Indexes in Gerontology and Contributions to the Study of Aging.

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