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Aging in the Past: Demography, Society, and Old Age (Studies in Demography)

Creators: David I. Kertzer, Peter Laslett
Publisher: University of California Press
Category: Book

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Media: Hardcover
Edition: illustrated edition
Pages: 408
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.3

ISBN: 0520084659
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.2609
EAN: 9780520084650
ASIN: 0520084659

Publication Date: May 5, 1995
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Thanks to improved food, medicine, and living conditions, the average age of the population is increasing throughout the modern industrialized world. Yet, despite the recent upsurge of scholarly interest in the lives of older people and the blossoming of historical demography, little historical demographic attention has been paid to the lives of the elderly. A landmark volume, Aging in the Past marks the emergence of the historical demographic study of aging.
Following a masterly explication of the new field by Peter Laslett, leading scholars in family history and historical demography offer new research results and fresh analyses that greatly increase our understanding of aging, historically and across cultures. Focusing primarily on post-Industrial Europe and the United States, they explore a range of issues under the broad topics of living arrangements, widowhood, and retirement and mortality. This important work provides a much-needed historical perspective on and suggests possible alternative solutions to the problems of the aged.