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Aging and Demographic Change in Canadian Context.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends Project SeriesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (305 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442670730
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Aging and Demographic Change in Canadian ContextLOC classification:
  • HB939
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Contextualizing Demographic Concerns -- 2 Intergenerational Interlinkages: Public, Family, and Work -- 3 Aging, Language, and Culture -- 4 The Impact of Demographic and Social Trends on Informal Support for Older Persons -- 5 Aging and Productivity: What Do We Know? -- 6 Work and Leisure: A Question of Balance -- 7 Catching Up with Diversity in Intergenerational Relationships -- Appendix: Iowa City Declaration -- Bibliography.
Summary: Contributors question whether an aging society is necessarily inferior or problematic compared with the recent past, cautioning that exaggerated concerns about population aging can be harmful to rational policy making.
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Intro -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Contextualizing Demographic Concerns -- 2 Intergenerational Interlinkages: Public, Family, and Work -- 3 Aging, Language, and Culture -- 4 The Impact of Demographic and Social Trends on Informal Support for Older Persons -- 5 Aging and Productivity: What Do We Know? -- 6 Work and Leisure: A Question of Balance -- 7 Catching Up with Diversity in Intergenerational Relationships -- Appendix: Iowa City Declaration -- Bibliography.

Contributors question whether an aging society is necessarily inferior or problematic compared with the recent past, cautioning that exaggerated concerns about population aging can be harmful to rational policy making.

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