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Old Age in Australia: A History
Australian Historical Studies, 2016Old Age in Australia: A History. By Pat Jalland (Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing, 2015), pp.vii + 296, AU$79.99(cloth), AU$59.99 (pb), AU$49.99 (eb).
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Social Histories of Old Age and Aging
Journal of Social History, 2003Social historians have become increasingly aware of the multiple forms of social diversity within all societies, including age diversity. But less attention has been paid to older rather than younger ages. This article examines the history and social meanings of aging and old age, mainly in the 'western' cultures of Europe, North America and ...
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A Cultural and Economic History of Old Age in America
Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2003The lives of today's elderly population have deep historical precedents by which we can better understand current social policies, health care, and retirement. The history of old age in America is more complex and varied than most people realize. This history has been shaped largely by the search for economic security.
Kevin C, Fleming +2 more
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The Journal of Economic History, 1996
Although it has not been our practice to publish issues devoted to single themes, the nearly simultaneous submission of three manuscripts treating the economic history of the elderly inspired us to highlight the new research in this area by publishing the articles together and by inviting Professor Stanley Engerman of the University of Rochester to ...
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Although it has not been our practice to publish issues devoted to single themes, the nearly simultaneous submission of three manuscripts treating the economic history of the elderly inspired us to highlight the new research in this area by publishing the articles together and by inviting Professor Stanley Engerman of the University of Rochester to ...
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The Contemporary Natural History of Mental Disorder in Old Age
British Journal of Psychiatry, 1982SummaryA classificatory system for mental disorders in the elderly proposed by Roth in 1955 was examined in a comtemporary population. Ninety per cent of patients could be allocated to the five psychosyndromes originally defined. Examination of outcome in the present sample, at six months and two years, showed important differences.
G, Blessed, I D, Wilson
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Rates and previous disease history in old age suicide
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2006AbstractObjectiveSuicide rates in persons over 65 have been reported to be higher than those of younger age groups. Since the absolute number of suicides in the elderly is expected to rise, more precise ways to identify potential risk factors for elderly suicides are needed.MethodsOn the basis of forensic examinations suicide rates and methods in ...
Hannu J, Koponen +6 more
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Old-Age Justice and Black Feminist History
Radical History Review, 2021AbstractThis essay outlines Sojourner Truth’s and Harriet Tubman’s articulations of an intersectional black feminist agenda for old-age justice. The two most famous formerly enslaved women in the nineteenth-century United States, Truth and Tubman in their speeches, activism, and published Narratives revealed the mechanisms of domination through which ...
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The Natural History of Mental Disorder in Old Age
Journal of Mental Science, 1955Our classification of the mental disorders of later life, which are becoming a social and medical problem of increasing magnitude, is still based upon the views of the great descriptive psychiatrists of half a century ago. Most of the classical accounts of mental disorder of old age (Kraepelin, 1909; Bleuler, 1916) confine themselves to the pre-senile,
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The Modernization of Old Age in France: Approaches through History
The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1981Increasing work on the history of old age allows attention to some key conceptual issues, relevant also for gerontological perspective. Change over time must be characterized in terms of periodization, and possibly in terms of direction and causation as well.
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The Ideology of Old Age and Death in American History
American Quarterly, 1979that have engaged anthropologists, psychologists, and sociologists for almost 30 years. Swept along by a new spirit of inquiry into subjects commonly passed over in silence, the logic of social history at last suggests that-like childhood, adolescence, women, and the family-old age and death also deserve historical attention.
Thomas Cole +2 more
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