Janie S. Steckenrider - Editor Tonya M. Parrott - Editor
N/A Hardcover - 285 pages
Release Date: September 1998
ISBN10: 0-7914-3913-5 ISBN13: 978-0-7914-3913-5
Price: $33.95 Paperback - 285 pages
Release Date: September 1998
ISBN10: 0-7914-3914-3 ISBN13: 978-0-7914-3914-2
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Summary
Provides a comprehensive assessment of the political environment and the state of old-age policy and politics and discusses specific, realistic policy options for the future.
This book explores the changed political environment in the United States and what it means for the policies and programs benefiting the elderly and their families. It includes chapters written by distinguished contributors, such as Fernando Torres-Gil, Assistant Secretary for Aging, Clinton Administration, and discusses specific, realistic policy options for the future. New Directions in Old-Age Policies suggests that old-age policy in the changed political environment is a paradox of competing agendas: individual versus fiscal responsibility in policy choices, doing more for the elderly and their families with fewer public resources, and prioritizing the status quo or change in policy decisions for the elderly.
"Most policy oriented books tend to be quite specialized--on Social Security only, or Medicare only. This is truly the first I've seen that covers the whole range of aging policy issues. The essays are well-written, the topics are timely, and the contributors are top notch. There is nothing like it on the market." -- Jill Quadagno, Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy, Florida State University
"The dimensions of the policy problem of aging are convincingly laid out. The political and social dimensions of gray politics are explored, and the broader causal origins of aging as a poverty problem are stated forcefully." -- Ronald Keith Gaddie, University of Oklahoma
Janie S. Steckenrider is Associate Professor of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. Tonya M. Parrott is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Gerontology at Quinnipiac College, Connecticut.
Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Political Environment and the New Face of Aging Policy
Janie S. Steckenrider and Tonya M. Parrott
I. Distinct Policy Domains: A Fresh Look at Old-Age Policies
Chapter 2. Health Care Policies and Older Americans
Robert H. Binstock
Chapter 3. Economic Security: Strengthening Social Security
Yung-Ping Chen
Chapter 4. Housing and Supportive Services for the Elderly: Intergenerational Perspectives and Options
Phoebe S. Liebig
II. Politics and Aging Policy
Chapter 5. Policy, Politics, Aging: Crossroads in the 1990s
Fernando M. Torres-Gil
Chapter 6. The 1995 White House Conference on Aging:
A Tradition Confronts a Revolution
Robert B. Blancato and Brian W. Lindberg
Chapter 7. The Changing Political Activism Patterns of Older Americans: "Don't Throw the Dirt Over Us Yet"
Susan MacManus and Kathryn Dunn Tenpas
Chapter 8. Old Age Interest Groups in the 1990s:
Coalitions, Competition, and Strategy
Christine L. Day
Chapter 9. Competing Problems, Budget Constraints, and Claims for Intergenerational Equity
Laurie A. Rhodebeck
III. The Family, Ethnicity, and Older Women: Aging Policy Dilemmas
Chapter 10. Changing Family Demographics, Caregiving Demands, and the Policy Environment
Tonya M. Parrott
Chapter 11. Aging Policy and the Experience of Older Minorities
Valentine M. Villa
Chapter 12. Aging as a Female Phenomenon:
The Plight of Older Women
Janie S. Steckenrider
Chapter 13. The Paradox of Old-Age Policy in a Changed Political Environment
