Growing Old in America
- ISBN-10
- 0195023668
- ISBN-13
- 9780195023664
- Series
- Growing Old in America
- Category
- Family & Relationships
- Pages
- 292
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1978
- Publisher
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
- Author
- David Hackett Fischer
Description
A history of aging in America surveys and compares actualities and attitudes in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries and suggests practical improvements on the current inadequate system of pensions, social security, medicare, and other prog
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