The end game : how inequality shapes our final years / Corey M. Abramson.

By:

Abramson, Corey M, 1980- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resource (244 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780674286801
0674286804

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: End game.DDC classification:

305.260973 23

LOC classification:

HQ1064.U5 A223 2015eb

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Contents:

"Old Is a Different Animal Altogether": The Shared Predicaments of the End Game -- The Uneven Playing Field: Disparate Contexts and Resources in Old Age -- Game-Day Strategies: How Prior Experiences Shape Cultural Strategies in the Present -- Team Dynamics: The Meanings of Social Ties -- Conclusion: How Inequality Shapes Our Final Years.

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"-- Publisher's description.

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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"-- Publisher's description.