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The End Game : How Inequality Shapes Our Final Years / Corey M. Abramson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (230 p.) : 5 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674743953
  • 9780674286801
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HQ1064.U5
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. The End Game -- 1. "Old Is a Different Animal Altogether". The Shared Predicaments of the End Game -- 2. The Uneven Playing Field. Disparate Contexts and Resources in Old Age -- 3. Game-Day Strategies. How Prior Experiences Shape Cultural Strategies in the Present -- 4. Team Dynamics. The Meanings of Social Ties -- Conclusion. How Inequality Shapes Our Final Years -- Methodological Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Senior citizens face a gauntlet of physical, psychological, and social hurdles. But do disadvantages accumulated over a lifetime make the final years especially difficult for some people? Or does the quality of life among poor and affluent seniors converge? Corey Abramson investigates whether lifelong inequality structures the lives of the elderly.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674286801

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. The End Game -- 1. "Old Is a Different Animal Altogether". The Shared Predicaments of the End Game -- 2. The Uneven Playing Field. Disparate Contexts and Resources in Old Age -- 3. Game-Day Strategies. How Prior Experiences Shape Cultural Strategies in the Present -- 4. Team Dynamics. The Meanings of Social Ties -- Conclusion. How Inequality Shapes Our Final Years -- Methodological Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Senior citizens face a gauntlet of physical, psychological, and social hurdles. But do disadvantages accumulated over a lifetime make the final years especially difficult for some people? Or does the quality of life among poor and affluent seniors converge? Corey Abramson investigates whether lifelong inequality structures the lives of the elderly.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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