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Social Science Gerontology

The Over-Forty Society

Issues for Canada's Aging Population

by (author) Blossom T. Wigdor & David K. Foot

Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Initial publish date
Jan 1988
Category
Gerontology
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550280852
    Publish Date
    Jan 1988
    List Price
    $16.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781550280876
    Publish Date
    Jan 1988
    List Price
    $45.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781552773154
    Publish Date
    Feb 2008
    List Price
    $45.00

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The Over-Forty Society begins by exploding the myths that the old are intellectually simple, socially unproductive and asexual.
The authors focus on labour market issues, pensions and income maintenance, education, health care, housing, economics and politics, and social services. Policy issues and options are suggested throughout the book, with a final chapter dealing with policy issues and options.
Marked throughout by intelligent analysis and impressive scholarship, The Over-Forty Society confronts head-on an issue that promises to dominate Canada's social agenda for decades to come.

About the authors

BLOSSOM WIGDOR is director of the University of Toronto\s Programme in Gerontology.'

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DAVID K. FOOT is a professor of economics at the University of Toronto. He is also the author of Boom, Bust & Echo: Profiting from the Demographic Shift in the New Millennium.

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