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Aging and Old Age (Paperback, New edition)
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Aging and Old Age (Paperback, New edition)
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Are the elderly posing a threat to America's political system with
their enormous clout? Are they stretching resources to the breaking
point with their growing demands for care? Economist and legal
scholar Richard A. Posner explodes the myth that the United States
could be on the brink of gerontological disaster. This text seeks
to offer 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 the dread of death to the
inordinate law-abidingness of the old, from their loquacity to
their penny-pinching, Posner paints a surprisingly rich, revealing,
and unsentimental portrait of the millions of elderly people in the
United States. He explores issues such as age discrimination in
employment, creativity and leadership as functions of age, and the
changing social status of the elderly. Why are old people,
presumably with less to lose, more unwilling to take risks than
young people? Why don't the elderly in the United States command
the respect and affection they once did and still do in other
countries? How does aging affect driving and criminal records? And
how does aging relate to creativity across different careers?
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