Dependency and Interdependency in Old Age : Theoretical Perspectives and Policy Alternatives (Paperback)

Editor’s Introduction.? Prologue: Social and Political Goals for an Ageing Society?Maggie Kuhn??Part One: The Social Construction of Dependency? 1. Challenges and Opportunities of an Ageing Society?Gunhild O. Hagestad? 2. The Politics of Ageing in America?Carroll L. Estes? 3. The Politics of Ageing in Britain?Alan Walker? 4. Political Economy as a Perspective in the Analysis of Old Age?John Bond? 5. Structured Dependency Revisited?Graham Fennell? 6. What Do Dependency Measures Measure? Challenging Assumptions?G. Clare Wenger? 7. New Lifestyles in Old Age??Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth? 8. Towards an Anatomy of Ageism: Society, Social Policy and the Elderly Between the Wars?Andrew Blaikie and john Macnicol??Part Two: Responses to Dependency??9. Ageism, Encouragement and Reassurance in Pre-Retirement Education?Alastair Weir? 10. Ageism Awareness Training: A Model for Group Work?Catherin Itzin? 11. ‘By’ the Community: An Ideological Response to the Crisis in the Welfare State?Janet Henderson? 12. Community Care and Elderly People: One-Way Traffic??John Harris and Des Kelly??13. Who Cares for the Elderly? Family Care Provision and Receipt of Statutory Services?Maria Evandrou, Sara Arber, Angela Dale and G. Nigel Gilbert? 14. Responses to Dependency: Reciprocity Affect and Power in Family Relationships?Hazel Qureshi? 15. American Experiments to Substitute Homes for Institutional Long-Term Care: Policy Logic and Evaluation?Bleddyn Davies? 16. How Effective are Benefits Take-Up Campaigns with Elderly People??Christina Victor? 17. Phased Retirement in Western Europe?Frank Laczko? 18. Institutional Regimes and Resident Outcomes in Homes for the Elderly?Tim Booth? 19. Confusional States in Elderly Persons’ Home Residents: A Process of Label Acquisition?Alex Murdock? 20. Away from Institutional Dependence: Towards a More Resident Orientated Environment?Stella Dixon? 21. The Dependency Characteristics of Older People in Long-Term Institutional Care?D. Ann Atkinson, John Bond and Barbara A. Gregson? 22. The Paying Patient: Customer or Commodity: Surveying Private Nursing Homes for the Elderly?Linda Challis and Helen Bartlett? 23. The Assessment of Depression in Elderly People by Non-Clinicians?Catherine Thompson??24. Peer Health Counselling: A Way of Countering Dependency??Miriam Bernard and Vera Ivers??Part Three: Experiences of Growing Old??25. Missing Out: Labour Market and Late Working Life Experiences as Factors in Old Age Dependency?Phil Lyon? 26. Making Way: The Disengagement of Older Workers?Bill Bytheway? 27. Understanding the ‘Management’ of Everyday Living: A Study Based on the Life History of a Group of Older People in Leeds?Silvana di Gregorio??28. Independence and Home in Later Life?Andrew J. Sixsmith? 29. Me Darby, You Joan!?Dorothy Jerrome? 30. Negotiation and Control: A Perspective on Values in Later Life?Robert Elmore.? Details of Contributors.