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Aging and old age / Richard A. Posner.

Title
  1. Aging and old age / Richard A. Posner.
Published by
  1. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Author
  1. Posner, Richard A.

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Description
  1. vii, 375 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. Aging and Old Age offers fresh insight into a wide range of social and political issues relating to the elderly, such as health care, crime, social security, and discrimination. From their dread of death to the extraordinary law-abidingness of the old, from their loquacity to their penny-pinching, Posner paints a rich, revealing, and unsentimental portrait of the millions of elderly people in the United States. Why are old people, presumably with less to lose, more unwilling to take risks than young people? Why don't the elderly in this country command the respect and affection they once did and still do elsewhere? How does aging affect driving ability and criminal behavior? And how does it relate to creativity across different careers?
  2. Observing that people change both physically and cognitively as they age, Posner suggests that each of us has, in succession, two separate selves - younger and older - with different abilities, interests, and behaviors, an insight that helps clarify a number of issues concerning the elderly.
Subject
  1. Aged
  2. Aged, 80 and over
  3. Aging
  4. Aging > Economic aspects
  5. Geriatrics
  6. Gerontology
  7. Old age > Economic aspects
  8. Older people > Legal status, laws, etc
  9. Older people > Social conditions
Contents
  1. Aging and old age as social, biological, and economic phenomena -- What is aging, and why? -- Old age past, present, and future -- A human-capital model of aging -- An economic model of aging with change assumed -- The economic theory elaborated and applied -- The economic psychology of the old -- Behavioral correlates of age -- Age, creativity, and output -- Adjudication and old age -- The status of the old and the aging of institutions -- Normative issues -- Euthanasia and geronticide -- Social security and health -- Legal issues of aging and old age -- Age discrimination by employers and the issue of mandatory retirement.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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