Social Change, Services for the Elderly & Disabled, Health Policy, Social Security - Service & Policies, Gerontology - Social Aspects, Gerontology, Emotions - Psychology, Eldercare, Characteristics & Qualities - Self-Improvement
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Overview
The baby boom generation is now advancing to elderhood in our society -- wealthier, healthier, better-educated, and numerically greater than any senior segment in any society in history. What are the implications of this massive demographic shift toward a culture defined not by its youth but by its elders? In this important new work, social historian Theodore Roszak, author of the classic analysis of the sixties generation. The Making of A Counterculture, offers answers to this question. Exploring such critical issues as politics, medicine, economic power, and the passing fashion of youth, Roszak argues that rather than becoming a burden on our society, elders are destined to become our culture's richest resource. The world he exposes is less materialistic and ambitious, more discriminating and compassionate, than the one baby boomers have inherited and shaped. Longevity Revolution not only describes the wisdom of elders, but is itself a profound expression of it.Book Details
Published
August 31, 2001
Publisher
Berkeley Hills Books,U.S.
Pages
320
Format
Textbook
ISBN
9781893163508