The idea that our society is ageing is a popular source of gloomy
predictions for the future. We see today's youth struggling in
their mature years to pay for the masses of geriatric baby boomers
whose productive years lie far behind. Australia's New Aged shows
that this belief is part reality and part myth. While there will be
an increase in the proportion of aged people in the next 20 years,
this is a temporary phenomenon and it is likely that tomorrow's
elderly will quite differently from their parents. Australia's New
Aged examines public policy for the aged in the context of an
increasingly vocal and active elderly population and cutbacks to
health and welfare spending. The authors argue that policy makers
have become trapped in a 'social problem' approach to ageing that
assumes the elderly are a homogeneous, disadvantaged group with
common interests. They examine a range of cases and identify
negative consequences of inappropriate assumptions in terms of
structural blindness and brutality. They show that this approach is
no longer viable and argue that both policy makers and the aged
care industry will need to be more sensitive to diversity and more
flexible than ever before. Australia's New Aged is essential
reading for students, policy makers and anyone working with the
aged. John McCallum is Professor of Public Health and Dean of the
Faculty of Health at the University of Western Sydney, Macarthur
and co-editor of Grey Policy (1990). Karin Geiselhart is a
journalist previously employed by the Office for the Status of
Women in Canberra.
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